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The following links is the
curricula currently be offered at Rawlings Head Start.
Visit the links below to learn more about them.
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High Reach-- Theme-based curriculum with content and
teaching resources
Goals at HighReach Learning are:
 | To provide quality materials for teachers so they have
more time to teach. |
 | To develop consistency within the center/school –
teacher to teacher, day to day, year to year. |
 | To develop products that promote creativity among
teachers and children. |
 | To provide a balanced program that addresses the whole
child – social, emotional, physical, and intellectual.
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HighReach Learning Mission Statement:
HighReach Learning, Inc. is committed to creating
high-quality, developmentally appropriate learning materials
that allow teachers to easily facilitate a creative,
integrated, hands-on learning experience for the whole
child. Our goal is to enhance the development of readiness
skills, encourage a love for learning, and promote family
involvement in the learning process. |
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HighReach Framework Themes
2007-2008
Themes |
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STEP
The S.T.E.P. (Strategic Teaching Educational
Program) is a preschool curriculum which
focuses on literacy. The areas of focus are: Book and Print Knowledge,
Language Development, Read Aloud, Phonological Awareness, Letter
Knowledge, and Written Expression.
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Imagine a classroom full of preschool
children wild about insects. A few students are studying an insect
collection with a magnifying glass; others are buzzing like bees and
hopping like grasshoppers. In one corner a teacher reads about insects
to a rapt audience. This Head Start classroom in Alachua County,
Florida, has been excited by a unique science and literature project
called Marvelous Explorations through Science and Stories-MESS.
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Second Step

Second Step for Preschoolers is a curriculum designed to reduce impulsive
and aggressive behavior in young children and increase their level of
social competence. It does this by teaching skills in empathy, impulse
control and anger management.
The goal of this program is to build children’s social skills and
self-esteem by giving them tools to solve everyday problems. Children who
learn and use the skills presented in this program are more likely to get
along with other people and do better in school.
Skills and lessons in the program include-
Empathy Training
Children learn to:
 | identify feelings (happy, mad, scared, and so on) |
 | predict how other people feel (by reading faces and body language)
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 | show others they care (by responding to others’ feelings) |
Impulse Control
Children learn to:
 | solve problems |
 | perform social skills (for example, sharing, taking turns) |
Anger Management
Children learn to:
 | calm down |
 | redirect their feelings in more positive ways |
Character Education
Other Links |
| Head Start is an early childhood
development program, started in 1965 to provide comprehensive
developmental services for America's low-income, preschool children ages
3 to 5. Giving a boost to children's education and helping strengthen
the skills of parents to better nurture and provide for their children,
Head Start is making a significant difference in the lives of children
and families in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and
the U.S. territories. |
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