AlphaBeeZ follow FLIGHT
Alberta’s Early Learning and Care Framework
We provide programming strategy in learning through play, inspired by the Reggio Emilia style of learning. Our childcare and early childhood education programs promote exploration and learning through play, nature and movement.
AlphaBeeZ empowers children to explore their natural curiosity to learn at their own pace and on their own terms. Play-centric activities are designed to encourage spontaneous, active, and FUN interactions.
What is Flight Framework curriculum?
The Alberta Early Learning and Care curriculum, FLIGHT, guides our practice. This curriculum framework is intended to guide the practice of early learning care educators working with children and their families in centre-based childcare and family day home settings. This is a flexible framework for thinking about how children learn and experience their worlds, as well as a guide that fosters strong early childhood communities.
Children’s play is central to this curriculum framework. It is an active, exploratory, creative, expressive process, deeply embedded in children’s everyday experiences and through which children participate in, learn about, and actively make sense of the world.
What is Learning through play?
Learning Through Play describes how a child can learn to make sense of the world around them using firsthand experiences.
Through play-based learning, children develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to participate in new experiences and environments. Based on the children’s cues, our education staff guide and support to extend the learning process.
- Play develops curiosity and perseverance.
- Play builds knowledge of ourselves and social relationships.
- Play builds self-esteem, a sense of independence and problem-solving skills.
- Play builds language and communication skills.
- Play develops both fine and gross motor control.
Our Environment
Our centre offers a balance of explorations in both indoor and outdoor environments. Nature becomes a venue for play and exploration in all seasons. Our playroom environments are inspired by the cultural backgrounds of educators, children, and families. Our goal is to stimulate a child’s creativity at the same time as introducing them to different cultural experiences.
Our outdoor classroom
Outdoor Learning Centres
Play is not a break from learning – it is the way young children learn
Building/Constructing Zone
Hands-on physics/engineering principles, cooperation, teamwork, working with natural materials, tree blocks.
Mud Kitchen
Soil, sand, water, herbs, pots, pans plus so much more! Children can create, pretend, experiment, discover and play in the mud!
Sandbox
Experiment, build, cooperate, problem solve, construct.
Exploration Table
Use their imagination, experiment with a variety of natural objects, feel a sense of accomplishment and personal mastery over the environment. Where natural materials can be used, children can experiment freely using creative process.
Garden
Plant, grow, nurture, taste, smell, touch, observe.
Musical Station
Experiment with sound, creative exploration, music and movement