A meaningful curriculum is integrated so that learning experiences encompass many content areas. It must be based on children’s interests and presented in a context thatstimulates children to invest in their work. Learning takes time. Children need to interact with the curriculum – to explore it, utilize it, question it and evaluate it in their own way of learning. Children’s engagement ensures purposeful and sustained learning.
Teachers use curriculum to intentionally plan ways for children to construct knowledge in order to make sense of their experiences. Appropriate curriculum content focuses on all four developmental domains:
cognitive (language and literacy mathematical, and scientific thinking)