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“Play is developmentally appropriate for primary-age children and can provide them with opportunities that enrich the learning experience” (Copple & Bredekamp 2009). Early childhood education holds two main focuses; a child-based focus and a family-based focus. Early childhood education has positive outcomes on the child through their learning experiences, and their growth and development. Based on the family, the results of early education happen through the communication that the family has with the educators and by the encouragement they get from within themselves, and also from the educators. Children learn most of what they know through play.

For my curriculum, I will focus on specific goals that the parents or guardians have for their child. The main purpose of early childhood education is for children to gain socialization and become familiar with educational structure. Barnett (2011) suggests “Early educational intervention can have substantive short- and long-term effects on cognition, social-emotional development, school progress, antisocial behavior, and even crime” (p. 6). Children who enter Preschools, Daycares and Head Start will have benefits which will increase children’s language and literacy and comprehension skills. LA Mona’s Curriculum will prepare children for formal education.

Children learn expected school behavior in a daycare setting. Children also benefit from the structure and rules learned from daycare. Child care and preschool points out the need of this early learning to help kids adapt to expectations throughout school and life. An added benefit to the structure at a childcare center is, that children gain confidence in knowing what to do when the kindergarten teacher tells them to line up or raise their hand; things that are not traditionally taught or used at home. A quality child care program can spell success for children in the future, they are taught good behavior, given a chance to learn and socialize, and have a structure schedule to follow.

Active involvements and interactions with peers and adults give young children opportunity to learn and communicate more. Play successfully enhances young children’s language development in productive way. It lays down the foundation for them to learn reading and writing in school. Preschoolers are able to become well-rounded learners. Therefore, they can easily adapt to new world and be well prepared higher learning.

Through play children are able to try out different ways to handle and address stressful or hurtful situations and stand strong when facing challenging situations. Play enhances children’s memories and attention spans and allows children to connect their ideas into realities and realities into deeper understandings. Play supports children’s language development by improving their verbalization and receptive/expressive vocabularies. Using preschool curricula to build school- and life-related skills is a great practice as long as it is developmentally

A child is considered an infant from the age of 2 to 12 months. From 12 months to 36 months this is considered the toddler years where the cognitive, emotional, and social development is great. The social emotional development occurs during early childhood where children experience different moods as well as expanding their social world by learning more about their emotions and other people. The social emotional development is a child's way of understanding the feelings of others, controlling their own feelings and behaviors and getting along with peers. The key to a successful emotional and social development are positive relationship with trusting and caring adults.

Pre-school carries a great value for those children who could not get adequate opportunities to develop through playing and being with someone caring. The well organized learning environment at preschools helps the babies to extend their life skills and potential. The benefits of opting pre-school for your baby directly influence his / her social, emotional, physical, and intellectual as well as language development. Especially for the children with disability, support services like special needs assistant and availability of a multi sensory room encourages them to dream better. The pre-school curriculums essentially help the children to succeed in their future through a good start of learning.

In preschool, the relationships children develop with one another can have an enduring impact on academic achievement, because they can provide more positive feelings about school and enthusiasm to participate in classroom activities, which can lead to superior levels of achievement. With this articles substantial focus on social emotional development in preschoolers, it goes into great detail about the definitions and importance of this development. It states that social and emotional development involves the acquisition of a set of skills. The key points involves the abilities to identify and understand one’s own feelings, accurately read and comprehend emotional conditions in others, control strong emotions and their expression in a positive manner, regulate one’s own behavior, develop empathy for others and establish and maintain relationships.

Children need to expand their abilities through their play experiences, and also through their fun experiences, they can develop correctly. Early youth education plays a large part in a child's early development. It is mainly dealing with children ages 4-5 the goal of Early Childhood is to help and teach students who first time learners. It provides an education for per-kindergarten children in our country that is provided in a variety of settings. These children represent more and more diverse backgrounds, experiences, and risk factors, and reflect a wide range of special needs.

Children need to expand their abilities through their play experiences, and also through their fun experiences, they can develop correctly. Early youth education plays a large part in a child's early development. It is mainly dealing with children ages 4-5 the goal of Early Childhood is to help and teach students who first-time learners. It provides an education for pre-kindergarten children in our country that is provided in a variety of settings. These children represent more and more diverse backgrounds, experiences, and risk factors, and reflect a wide range of special needs.