PLEASE NOTE: Last day of preschool is May 8, 2025.

ROP Developmental Preschool Philosophy

The Careers with Children North Orange County ROP Preschool implements a developmentally appropriate Early Childhood Education (ECE) curriculum in the daily program. The environment is prepared and presented in order to enable your child to learn and grow at their own pace. The ECE curriculum is child-centered and reflects the children’s interests and lives. ECE activities are designed to value the process more than the finished product.

As children explore the provided activities, they work towards developing in the following areas: physical, social, emotional, creative, and intellectual skills. Our goals are to provide children with opportunities to explore and develop at their own rate of readiness in an environment that encourages them to express their creativity and to build self-esteem.

Daily Curriculum/Transitions

North Orange County ROP preschools are state-licensed lab training sites for high school students with the two-fold objective: 1) to provide training for careers in early childhood occupations and 2) to offer quality early childhood education (ECE) to preschoolers. 

As students develop knowledge and understanding of age-appropriate ECE activities that support the Learning Domains the preschool children will be provided with specific ECE curriculum areas that will enhance their developmental process.  The daily ECE curriculum areas change on a transition cycle as posted in the classroom are 1) Manipulative Activities, 2) Creative Art, 3) Language & Literature and Music & Movement, and 4) Outside play.

Preschool Children will:

• Be provided an environment where an age-appropriate curriculum is implemented.
• Experience four daily ECE curriculum transitions: 1) Manipulative Activities, 2) Creative Art, 3) Music & Movement/ Language Arts & Literature Development, and 4) Outside play.
• Experience meaningful interactive conversations during ECE curriculum activities that support each child’s individual process of development.
• Be provided with ECE curriculum activities that support age-appropriate growth and learning: Intellectually, Socially, Emotionally, and Physically.   
• Experience numerous age-appropriate ECE activities that provide opportunities for children to gather and process information, learn new skills, and practice old skills.

Manipulatives

The manipulative transition encompasses the preschool curriculum areas of Science & Math, Dramatic Play, Block Building (Floor Jobs), and Table Jobs.  Each ECE curriculum area enhances specific growth in areas of Social/Emotional Development (sense of self, responsibility for self & others), Physical Development (gross motor, fine motor), Intellectual Development (learning & problem solving, logical thinking, representation & symbolic thinking), and Language Development (listening & speaking, reading & writing). During the manipulative transition, children are offered tasks at which they can succeed, master appropriate challenges, and experience basic readiness concepts through play.

Creative Art

During the creative art transition students participate and encourage children to express their creative self through exploring and compiling materials.  Students interact and support the children as they make choices, interact with a variety of materials, experiment with the ways they are applied, and learn to be creative thinkers.   Art is repeated daily so children can develop through stages, create age-appropriate designs, and develop a vocabulary of describing words. 

Language & Literature and Music & Movement

The Music and Movement and Language Arts & Literature Development transition is done daily in a large group setting where students and children participate together and enjoy books, stories, finger plays, puppets, flannel stories, group conversations, and singing.   Both ECE curriculum areas enhance children’s growth in areas of Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development, Creative Development, and Intellectual Development.

Outside Play

Outside play transition encompasses all preschool curriculum areas mentioned above with an emphasis on children’s gross motor development. Students and children explore, interact, socialize, and play together as they discover the world around them.  Outside daily ECE curriculum activities include but are not limited to bikes, climbing equipment, sand, water, sensory tables, tabletop manipulative toys, games, easels/creative art, dramatic play, and obstacle courses.   

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