Bilingual Child Care & Education Center
Preschool in Saint Paul, MN 55104
The mission of Bilingual Child Care & Education Center is to support the natural development of bilingual (Spanish/English) language skills and cultural awareness while preparing children for success in school.
The Center has the following goals:
1) Create an environment of immersed language learning implemented by highly qualified teachers who are fully bilingual (Spanish/English).
2) Foster creativity and healthy intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development, recognizing and nurturing each childs unique gifts in preparation for success in kindergarten.
3) Provide a safe, caring, and respectful environment that honors diversity and cultural awareness.
- Child Ages:
- 1.5 years - 5 years
- Rates:
- $$$
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- MinnesotaDepartmentofHumanServices
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- 7:30am - 5:30pm
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Bilingual Child Care and Education Center is committed to a high level of academic excellence. As such we maintain a dynamic curriculum including Language and Literacy Development, Cognitive Thinking (Math and Science), Art, Music, Cultural Studies, and Creative Movement.
Our Language and Literacy Development and Cognitive Thinking domains are divided into specific learning objectives that are developmentally appropriate for each of our classrooms. Our daily academic blocks are taught in Spanish and both English and Spanish language instruction are included within the Language and Literacy component.
Domain: Language and Literacy Development
Category: Listening
Listen to and recognize different sounds and syllables in rhymes and familiar words
Child will be able to represent stories told or read aloud through various media or during play
Category: Speaking
Communicate needs, wants, or thoughts through non-verbal gestures, actions, expressions, and/or words
Clearly communicate information using Spanish and/or English
Use increasingly complex and varied vocabulary and language
Initiate, ask questions, and respond in conversation with others
Category: Pre-reading
Make predictions about and respond to stories told or read aloud
Use scribbles, shapes, pictures, or dictation to represent thoughts or ideas
Child will show beginning understanding of concepts about print
Recognize and name some letters of the alphabet, especially those in own name
Begin to associate sounds with words or letters
Category: Pre-writing
Understand that writing is a way of communicating
Engage in copying and writing using letter-like symbols to make letters or words
Domain: Cognitive Development
Category: Mathematical and Logical Thinking
Sub category: Number Concepts and Operations
Demonstrate increasing interest in and awareness of numbers and counting
Demonstrate understanding of one-to-one correspondence between objects and number
Demonstrate ability to count in sequence
Demonstrate beginning ability to combine and separate numbers of objects
Sub Category: Patterns and Relationships
Recognize and duplicate simple patterns
Sort objects into subgroups
Order or sequence several objects
Sub-Category: Spatial Relationships/Geometry
Identify and name common shapes
Use words that show understanding of order and position of objects
Sub-category: Measurement
Recognize objects can be measured by height, length, weight, and time
Domain: Cognitive Thinking
Category: Scientific Thinking and Problem-Solving
Students will practice using the scientific process including formal use of:
Questioning
Predicting
Observing
Investigating
Drawing Conclusions
- Adapted from MN Department of Education Early Learning Standards
