Curriculum
At Joyfulness, we provide educational play-based early learning curriculum combined with child-initiated and teacher-led activities, delivered in Mandarin and English by two professional educators to help children develop social, emotional, physical, cognitive, language and literacy skills.
Being bilingual or multilingual has numerous advantages for children’s early development, future academic and career success. Lots of evidences suggest that children pick up languages better at an earlier age.
Why Chinese?
Chinese is a rewarding language to learn. As we known, China is one of the world’s oldest and richest continuous cultures, over 5000 years old. Now China is the second largest economy in the world and is one of the largest trading partners of Canada.
Chinese is also a language that is particularly beneficial to children’s brain development, which is fun and easy for young children to learn. Chinese is a tonal language and Chinese characters look like pictures, which are represented by graphic texts, simultaneously conduct three types of information: sound, shape, and meaning, and stimulate the left and right hemispheres of the brain at the same time when children learning. As a result, young children gain active development of cognitive, logical and creative thinking skills.
Curriculum Highlights
- “Easier Daycare” (“入园适应”课程)
In the first month after children enter daycare, we will pay special attention to their emotion, diet, self-help skills, sleep and other aspects, through music, stories, games and other forms help children alleviate their anxiety and establish a sense of security, so that they can adapt to daycare easily and quickly.
- Language&Literacy（语言与识字）
Joyfulness is a daycare of readers! Everyday children are exposed to quality, developmentally appropriate reading materials, such as English and Chinese children books, and they have reading routine led by our educators. Listening, reading, writing, and literacy skills will be taught in the context of everyday activities and interactions.
- Music&Dance（音乐律动）
At Joyfulness, children are happy singers! we set up a Music&Dance area to children and give them the opportunity to listen to music, play instruments, experiment with sound and move their bodies. Through carefully designed activities by our educators, children learn to sing in Chinese and English and dance, which can help them develop gross and fine motor skills, improve their balance and coordination, language and social/emotional skills.
- Math&Science（数学&科学）
Children are naturally curious. They develop mathematical concepts and early scientific thinking through play. At Joyfulness, we provide a variety of materials for children to explore and discover, raise questions and problems as they play, and encourage them to observe, predict, describe, and theorize about what they’re doing. Every Friday is children‘s discovery day. Under the guidance of educators, they walk across the community, into parks and woods, enjoyed playing and exploring.
- Creative Arts（创意美术）
At Joyfulness, every child is an artist! We expose children to a variety of art materials and carefully plan activities that support children’s creative thinking . By stressing the process we encourage children to use their imaginations to make choices and allow the children the freedom to try things out on their own.
- Social&Emotional（情商教育）
Through stories, games, role-playing and other interactive experience, educators help children understand and manage their emotions; learn how to communicate with friends, how to face conflicts, and learn and grow in conflicts.
- Health Education（健康教育）
Through interactive games and activities children learn and practise healthy eating, dental hygiene, hand-washing, etc, and develop the good habit of hygiene since early childhood.
- “Ready for Kindergarten”（幼小衔接）
From June to August, Joyfulness launch this course for children who are moving to kindergarten in September. Through stories, pictures, games and other forms, our educators will introduce the environment and experience of kindergarten to children, help them familiarize with kindergarten schedule and routine in advance, strengthen their self-help skills and improve their independence to get ready for kindergarten. Meanwhile, some kindergarten curriculum contents will be introduced to children.