Building Friendships During Circle Time

Indoor Field Trip with Clemson DZ Sorority

Afternoon Circle Time playing Duck/Duck/Goose 

Special Education

Every child is unique. No two children learn the same way or have the same needs. For children with disabilities this is particularly true. Our goal is to educate all children with the support that each child individually needs. Developmental strategies are planned and implemented to help our students reach established goals for academics (reading, writing, and mathematics), but also daily living skills and social emotional development. We want for our children to generalize their skills in the classroom, during therapy and at home. 

Our interdisciplinary team provides a comprehensive range of services that promote growth in all developmental areas. This interdisciplinary approach allows the student to be viewed as a “whole child” functioning with separate, distinct developmental skills. Our curriculum incorporates a range of therapies to engage students in a wide variety of experiences: social emotional learning and daily living skills, music, dance, movement group exercise, and field trips.  



The Education Department uses two different curriculums.

For our students' birth through age three, we use the research-based Teaching Strategies Creative Curriculum for Infant, Toddlers, and Twos and Pre-school.

For our grade level students [Kindergarten (K), 1st, and 2nd graders] we use a modified (level 1 and level 2) South Carolina State Curriculum.

For further exploration of the state curriculum, visit: Standards - South Carolina Department of Education - 04/10/2024 10:58

We continue to supplement our research-based curriculum with Made for Me (Literacy), Made for Me (Level A Preschool), Read it Once Again, Handwriting without Tears, Made for Me (Math), and our health/physical education curriculum is Ablenet’s Play & Learn: A motor-based preschool curriculum for children of all abilities.  

Curriculum

Potential Schedule

* There are variations to our teachers’ schedules, please treat these as samples ONLY.

School Aged

Arrival/Free Play: 7:30-8

Morning Routine: 8-8:30 *possible therapy time

Morning Circle: 8:30-9 *no therapy pulls, but may push in

Learning Centers/Individual goal work with teachers
9-9:30 (Reading, Writing, Math) *possible therapy time

Garden: 9:30-10 *possible therapy time

Related Arts: 10-10:30 *possible therapy time
M - Music, T - Early Literacy with MILO the ROBOT, W - Library,
TH - Art, F - Social/Emotional (A Spot of Feelings/Al’s Pals)

Literacy: 10:30 - 11 *possible therapy time

Lunch: 11 - 11:30 *possible therapy time

BIG Recess: 11:30 - 12 *possible therapy time

Afternoon Circle Time: 12-12:30 *possible therapy time

Social Studies/Science: 12:30 - 1 *possible therapy time

Afternoon Routine: 1-1:30

Load Buses: 1:35

Carline: 1:40

Birth/Pre- School

Arrival/Free Play: 7:30-8

Morning Routine: 8-8:30 *possible therapy time

Morning Circle: 8:30-9 *no therapy pulls, but may push in

Learning Centers/Individual goal work with teachers
9-9:30 (Reading, Writing, Math) *possible therapy time

Garden: 9:30-10 *possible therapy time

Related Arts: 10-10:30 *possible therapy time
M - Music, T - Early Literacy with MILO the ROBOT, W - Library,
TH - Art, F - Social/Emotional (A Spot of Feelings/Al’s Pals)

Literacy: 10:30 - 11 *possible therapy time

Lunch: 11 - 11:30 *possible therapy time

NAP: 11:30 - 1:15 (bus riders) - 1:30 (car riders)

NAP: 11:30 - 1:15 (bus riders) - 1:30 (car riders)

NAP: 11:30 - 1:15 (bus riders) - 1:30 (car riders)

NAP: 11:30 - 1:15 (bus riders) - 1:30 (car riders)

Load Buses: 1:35

Carline: 1:40