Watch two four-year-olds argue about whose tower is taller and you are watching measurement, communication, problem-solving, and social development at once.
AISJ Early Childhood is built on the Creative Curriculum, which takes that kind of play seriously as the engine of early literacy, math, science, and social learning. Children move between their homeroom and art, music, PE, and the library. Families are named partners from the first day, not spectators.
What children develop
Five areas of development
Social, emotional, physical, communication, and cognitive.
Four integrated academic areas
Literacy, math, science, and social studies.
Creative Curriculum and early learning
Creative Curriculum
The research behind the play. The Creative Curriculum is the research-based spine of the program. It tracks five kinds of growth at once (social, emotional, physical, communication, and cognitive) and meets each child at the stage they are actually in, not the one on the calendar.
Play and inquiry
Learning is play, and play is learning. A project about the ocean is also a reading lesson, a counting exercise, and a first taste of science. Children build early literacy, math, science, and social studies through big ideas and projects they care about, investigating, exploring, and discovering together.
Specialists
Art, music, PE, library, and activities. The homeroom is not the whole day. Young scholars also work with specialist teachers in art, music, and physical education, visit the library, and can stay on for after-school activities.
Families
Home and school, one plan. No one knows a young child like their family. AISJ builds the partnership in from the first day, so what happens in the classroom and what happens at home pull in the same direction.
Preschool units of exploration run across Pre‑K 2 through Pre‑K 4. Beyond the homeroom: art, music, PE, library, and activities.
