Co-Op Program
Hilltop offers a developmentally- and age-appropriate program where children are given the freedom within a structured environment to explore, create, and interact with adults and other children. We understand and emphasize learning should be fun and children learn while they play.
Program Goals
Exploring Words
We strive to create an environment where children can acquire knowledge and skills to become fully-functioning human beings:
- Grow in all areas: socially, emotionally, physically, and cognitively.
- Develop self-awareness and acceptance about their own physical, social and emotional selves.
- Develop creative problem solving skills.
- Grow in self-confidence and willingness to try new things.
- Become inner-directed.
- Become responsible.
- Be creative thinkers, aware of choices.
- Acquire a sense of unity, connectedness, and belonging.
- Receive an anti-bias education, which includes an appreciation for individual differences and cultural diversity.
Curriculum
Inside Classroom
- Living center/dramatic play
- Story dictation/journals
- language enrichment
- Science experiments and cooking
- Manipulatives
- Creative art
- Blocks and construction
- Animals and science center
Group Times
- Enriching books
- Music and movement activities
- Finger plays and story reading
- Sharing
- Nutritional snacks
Outside Classroom
- Tricycles and freeway
- Climbing structures, slides and swings
- Playhouse and dramatic play
- Sandbox play
- Water table experiments and play
- Painting
- Gardening centers and nature exploration
Acquiring concepts of shape and size
Forming ideas of speed and distance
Making Science Discoveries
