Our Play-Based Curriculum

At Lincoln Nursery School, our curriculum is rooted in our respect for children’s interests, ideas, and abilities. We want children to be engaged in everything they do. We build meaningful curriculum through a dynamic process of observation and collaboration; reflecting what children are telling us they value most, as well as teachers’ experience and school traditions. The curriculum is not prescribed by teachers; it emerges and evolves as our children‘s interests and curiosities emerge and evolve. Our teachers carefully prepare their environment – as it is viewed as another teacher – to offer the children a rich variety of play opportunities as a means of fostering physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development. Children come together to share materials and ideas. For many, this may be the first opportunity to find out that people think differently. Our children are learning through play to become citizens of the world.

The Importance of Play

During the preschool years children learn best through play; making choices, solving problems, planning what they are going to do and feeling a sense of control. Play is important to a child’s social, emotional and cognitive growth and is the way children make sense of the world around them. Play is how children work through new experiences, ideas and feelings and therefore is the foundation of curriculum at LNS.