 The curriculum at TLC for Kids is designed to enhance children’s learning experience through a variety of methods. Our main focus is to stimulate and exercise the memory skills of our students. We are able to do this by using proven teaching methods, which have been used with great success for some time now. We use a combination of specific visual cues, entertaining music, and hands-on activities, all of which combine to provide your child with a very well rounded lesson. Our curriculum differs slightly by age levels to provide our students with the best possible materials suited for their learning level.
Toddler Classes (18 months – 3yrs old)
 Our youngest age groups are the toddler classes. These classes may seem quite intensive at first, but children seem to adapt well. We cover a broad spectrum of subjects within these classes. Subjects covered include: alphabets/letter sounds, phonics, numbers, counting, shapes, colors, animals, directions, months, days, special days, United States, and more. Our students will also perform many hands-on tasks and activities, which engage them with what we are learning in class. Parents are also involved with these classes, and are encouraged to participate with their child/children. All of this helps to prepare students for taking on the challenges of a formal school environment.
3-5 Years Classes
 These classes focus more on children’s reading development. Students will use what they’ve learned about letters and sounds, and start blending them together to make simple words. This is a critical point for students to learn how to read. Our classes for this age group will focus on: short vowel/long vowel words, addition, subtraction, skip counting, US geography, world geography, history, science, problem solving, and more.
6-8 Years Classes
 With our older students we rely less on the music for teaching. We begin to prepare our students for formalized testing, such as the SAT tests. We introduce students to: analogies, synonyms, in depth US geography, multiplication, and problem solving. Our students will also do spelling tests, geography tests, and math speed drills, all of which continue to condition their memory skills. All of these activities serve to prepare a child for obstacles that he/she may later face in school.
Classroom Activities
TLC for Kids uses a variety of activities within our classroom. These activities are designed to assist our students with what they have learned. Depending on the student’s age or ability, activities have different ranges in difficulty.
■Polygon Puzzles
 Puzzles involve combining different geometric shapes to form a larger shape. Students are timed, and are expected to finish as much as they can within the time limit. These activities are used to improve our student’s visual and kinesthetic intelligences. These puzzles are also used as a method to improve memory skills.
■Memory Puzzles
 Used primarily with our younger students, these engage and exercise our student’s ability to remember and recall. Typical exercises include seeing a sequence of shapes or numbers and having our students memorize and recall them in a relatively short period of time.
■Mazes
 Mazes are designed to help motor skills, problem solving, and memory as well. Students are given a selection of mazes to do in a given period of time. After mastery, students will advance to even more complicated series of mazes.
■Recitation
 These activities are done to help memory and speaking skills. Students will take home a recitation book and memorize nursery rhymes. They then recite the nursery rhyme in class to the teacher. This activity also gives students the opportunity to earn stamps, which they may exchange for prizes.
■Reading Binder
 Every new student will be given a reading binder. Reading binders will start with a single page with words suited for your child’s reading ability. They are to practice reading that sheet at home. Every week, the teacher will test your child and upon mastery he/she will be given another. The main idea of this exercise is for children to practice at home and see results for themselves as they acquire more and more reading sheets.
■Homework
 Students will be given homework after every class, usually consisting of reading and math worksheets. The homework will be age and ability specific to each child. It is important that children do the homework to practice what they have learned in class. For our toddler aged students, homework is important because it teaches them the importance of completing and returning homework assignments to a teacher. |
