STORIES FROM CHILDCARE CENTER DIRECTORS
“Experience Curriculum was purchased to help teacher’s ‘practice’ in their areas of weakness and bring continuity to the quality of our preschool experience. It removed conflict from our planning meetings about whose ideas were best. The focus moved to how to best adapt the activity to each class and when to replace it with a teacher choice. It fostered more sharing of experience and collaborative planning among teachers.”
“Not only am I a teacher, but also a director. I don’t have spare time for lots of prep. Some of my staff teachers are willing to help but they often don’t have spare time either. Experience Curriculum takes this time factor into consideration, and because of that reason we are about to be better prepared for the children, as well as, offer a wonderful curriculum which is complete and meets developmentally appropriate practices.”
“We RAVE about Experience Early Learning to everyone and it is a very important thing that sets apart from other schools. Parents love the curriculum and love that every day is different and every day is packed with exciting things to learn and do.”
“It saves me so much time! The materials are very high quality and my students and parents love the monthly themes and materials. I love the consistency of the things we do each month with the variety of the monthly theme. I also love that each year as I teach, the themes are different without me having to spend the time to change it myself. It helps me to not get burned out. Customer service is also VERY helpful!”
“I love teaching with Experience Curriculum because I know that each activity or play invitation I set out using the provided materials will meet the skills, goals and developmental benchmarks of each individual child and it is aligned with Michigan Standards!”
“The children love the music!!! I hear them singing it throughout the center all day, and we get requests to sing the songs as well.”
“Where do I start…I love everything about Experience Early Learning, it has made teaching preschool a real joy!”
“I love the fact that everything works together in unity with one another and that the Assessment Tools all work together to give our children a well rounded program.”
“Saves us time and money as a school by streamlining lesson planning and inventory of supplies for our daycare aged students. This has been ideal and we love the material that is taught. We’ve noticed a huge increase in our students classroom participation and excitement to attend class every day.”
STORIES FROM FAMILY CHILDCARE PROVIDERS
“I love teaching with Experience Curriculum because it is hands on, creative fun that offers a lot of new experiences for my group and saves me time!”
“Experience Curriculum helps me to have a positive attitude each and every day. I look forward to my children arriving each morning. I love to see their faces when they look, wonder and then figure out something thanks to Experience Early Learning and to our ability to teach them.”
“I love teaching Experience Early Learning because it provides everything needed for a well rounded child. It’s easy to customize for individual needs. I love all of the support and resources we have as educators available to us!”
“I try new activities with the kids I would never have thought to try, or that the kids would be able to do, and they surprise me every time! Experience Curriculum helps to get me thinking outside the box, and the kids thrive on it!”
“We here at Guardian Angel Child Care/ Preschool love Experience Early Learning. It has provided everything that the children need to enter school with a head start. It has given the children the confidence to succeed and be proud of themselves know that they are ready for the school year to come. As for the teachers, it is a time saving, thought out curriculum with crafts and activities included that covers all the basics and beyond what we need to teach to the children prior to Kindergarten. Proud used of Experience Curriculum for over 18 years.”
“Experience Early Learning’s curriculum in my opinion as a professional teacher and doctor, meets all the requirements needed for both children and teachers. Experience Curriculum creates a marvelous academic foundation for each child.”
“I used to create my own curriculum, and spent countless hours on it. I was also not very well prepared at the start of each day, and the kids recognized that and grew restless while I shuffled my papers around looking for things. Once I started with Experience Curriculum, everything really clicked into place! The kids can’t wait to start preschool every day with their circle time songs!”
“Because I use Experience Curriculum, I know the children will be interested in the monthly themes and will learn what they should, in a fun, healthy way!”
“I love Experience Curriculum! The children ask to listen to the music CDs when they have independent play. They like the upbeat tunes and parents tell me that they are singing songs at home.”
“After trying other curriculums, you find Experience Curriculum to be the best. I always recommend Experience Early Learning to friends and ALL of my four-year-old children are reading because of this program!”
“Experience Early Learning helped me the most by giving my preschool group a structured routine. We listen to the provided CDs for circle time and sing together, then begin our daily activities. The kids always know what to expect each day, which helps them relax and opens their minds to learning.”
“Experience Curriculum helps me by saving me a lot of time. I previously spent a lot of time printing and prepping units for my preschoolers. Now I only spend about 1-2 hours a week prepping and planning for the upcoming week. This allows me a lot of extra time to be with the kids. I also am very easily able to track and make assessments due to the clearly labelled journal and lesson plan books.”
“It gives me a strong starting point for my curriculum. It offers me valuable resources the otherwise would take me hours to prepare each month. I can spend more direct time with the children, and with my family after working hours. All of the families that I have are impressed with the curriculum provided to their children and all the things they get to bring home to share with their families.”
“This is my first year starting my business as a child care provider AND I am a new mom! Experience Curriculum is wonderful because the quality of the curriculum is excellent and the materials all come straight to my house, already organized and portioned for the exact number of students I have! It saves a million trips to craft stores, hours of prep work, and a lot of money wasted on surplus materials.”
“I love it! I have struggled for three years to put together a quality program for my daycare children. I ran myself ragged running all over looking for all the items needed and usually ended up purchasing in quantities too large and spending more than I could afford. Experience Early Learning has helped my bottom line and my professional image to my parents.”
“I like that all of the supplies are included in the kit. I like the lesson plans, they are spot on and extremely helpful when I am teaching the children in my care.”
“Experience Curriculum has a wide variety of activities, ideas, subjects that teach kids to think and use their minds to discover so much in life. This is what I value the most, not that they will learn all that I teach but that one day they will recall seeing and hearing something that we did in preschool and say in the back of their mind, I did that somewhere…yes in preschool!”
“I love that everything comes sealed in daily bags. I just pull out the daily bag, review what we will be doing and I’m done. Simple, quick and easy!!”
“Besides a complete curriculum there is tons of extra help, ideas and information on the website”
“Most little people are visual learners at the ECE ages, and [Experience Curriculum] helps them connect hands-on experiences with the lessons/themes being taught. They are able to touch, see and hear using the materials.”
“I like the prearranged daily topics but I appreciate that there is room to allow for teacher creativity on the subject matter.”
“Honestly love the teacher guide. All the information and all the suggested things we do keep us busy all day long!”
“Having everything ready to go, organized and planned out is HUGE!! I have six children in my care for a minimum of 50 hours a week. Having things ready to go saves me time and allows me to provide the children with fun and engaging learning activities.”
“[Experience Curriculum] is completely a time savior for me. Running a home daycare has many hats in one day to wear so being able to open a daily bag and trust Mother Goose Time is a complete blessing.”
“Experience Curriculum helps me stay on course, organized and it ensures I am meeting my city’s daily common core targets.”
“When the school bus box arrives at your door and the children SQUEAL, you know you’ve got a winner! From the garden themed number display, to the flower pot site words and color flowers the “character” bird feathers, to the abc flip cards. There is NO lack of imagination and HANDS ON learning with Experience Curriculum! …If you are a teacher that needs a well organized curriculum that keeps the children away from the chairs and tables and allows active bodies to learn through play, this is for you!”
“This new box of Experience Preschool curriculum has me in tears! I cannot believe all of the cut-outs and pre-packaged learning activities. This will save me SO much time and money. Truly blessed! And what’s even better is that I can hand the Lesson Plan to staff and ask them to take over while I prepare lunch and away they go – completely confident!I’m literally going to add up all I save by not printing a ton of worksheets! Thank you Mother Goose Time!”
“As providers, we are the nurse, the counselor, the janitor and last – but certainly not least – the teacher! What I like about the Experience Preschool curriculum is that I can open the box and instantly be ready to teach a quality and comprehensive program without all the prep”
“Elementary school teachers brag about the readiness of the children coming from my daycare because of what I teach them with Experience Curriculum. We have a waiting line at our daycare and even get calls from parents with infants that want to come and grow up with us because of the preschool curriculum that we offer.”
“My kids are very excited about your program! They have learned so much since I started it! Their parents are also very impressed. Thank you so much for helping me to help them!”
“Experience Early Learning is a well-balanced curriculum with the child’s whole development in mind. It has everything I need to run a high quality preschool program!”
“As soon as they walk in the door the children ask, ‘What are we doing with Experience Curriculum today?’ Their parents and I love it, too. Thank you so much for making my day easier!”
“What a wonderful curriculum for children of all ages! I love the way it comes with so many teaching materials and how easy the lessons are to follow – as is, or to add to them. I have seen a lot of change in my children after using it.”
STORIES FROM HOMESCHOOLERS
“I love knowing that all of my lessons are planned out perfectly, that all of the supplies and how much we need of them are there. I also really utilize and enjoy the “assess” and “reflect” parts of the book. This has made homeschooling enjoyable fun and attainable for me and my multi age household!”
“I love that Experience Curriculum can be mobile. we take it outside all the time. it doesn’t have to be done in the same place every day. Also, that I can adjust activities, add-on to them or not do things depending on what i think will fit the kids attitudes/interests.”
“The number one benefit, in my opinion, is the ease of use. Many families who homeschool and have older children find their youngest one is missing out, just because they don't have time. Mother Goose Time makes it easy to grab and go and include the youngest in the learning fun! But good luck using Experience Curriculum for just the preschooler in your family, trust me, everyone will want to join in. Since it's easily adapted to multiple ages the whole family can learn together. ”
“The lesson plan is a great guide. Save your time running around gathering curriculum and start enjoying your children.”
“It is easily adaptable to use with my 3 year old son. One of the things I love about Experience Curriculum is the convenience. Everything is laid out for me. Of course, I have basic supplies like glue, construction paper and crayons, but the less commonly used supplies (yarn, googly eyes, etc.) are provided by Experience Early Learning. Each day’s materials are individually packaged and put in the box in chronological order so that when I take out today’s packet, tomorrow’s is right on top! They really have taken all the guesswork out of preschooling my child!”
“We just finished up our fifth month using Experience Early Learning, which is a complete preschool curriculum. And when I say complete, I mean complete. Each month comes with a music CD, book, manipulatives, craft materials, science experiments, snack ideas, detailed lesson plans, and so much more. My girls have been loving the activities and can’t wait to “do school” every day. I love the ease of this program. Experience Curriculum comes up with things I wouldn’t normally have thought of or tried and frequently it’s these simple ideas that my girls love the most.”
“I love how I how I can adapt it to my style of homeschooling. I love the cost –You could never put together this kind of curriculum on your own, for the price, as a homeschooler. I also love the different themes and how adaptable they are. Super easy for me! And I love how my daughter loves it. She really learns.”
“The Lesson Plan is a great guide. Save your time running around gathering curriculum (materials) and start enjoying your children!”
“I just have to get something off my chest: seriously, I don’t know what I’d do without Experience Early Learning. Just thinking of planning each day out by myself (on top of EVERYTHING else I have to accomplish each day) and wasting money on more supplies than I’d actually be using gives me a headache. It would take hours upon hours of Pinteresting, planning and coordinating to come up with anything CLOSE to this level of education and fun! (I mean, you just have to see everything that’s included in a box…it’s nuts!)”
“The ease of use and simple layout of the lesson plans for the teachers is my #1 favorite thing about the Experience Preschool curriculum! It makes homeschooling a toddler easy because I have time for school, house chores, family AND a life! I’d say my second favorite feature is the quantity and quality of the activities and materials that are sent with each month! I especially like the Little Goose supplement because it gives me options and ideas of other things to do when an activity is too difficult for my two year old.”
“Once the excitement from the beautiful new posters, perfectly organized lessons and enticing new manipulatives subsided, I am pleasantly surprised by the comprehensive content of Mother Goose Time. This program is truly adaptable to a wide variety of ages and learning styles. It requires little prep work from the parent/teacher and provides the necessary materials to complete most of the lessons. The few supplies that are not included are typical household items and listed in a convenient checklist for your review, before the month begins.”
“Experience Early Learning’s curriculum layouts not only cut my planning time way down, but they give me the confidence that my lessons will be as interesting and captivating as they are educational, fun, and developmental.”
“Through Experience Curriculum my kids have grown to love to learn. They ask every day to do home school. It helps me most by saving me hours of research and preparation [compared to] when I tried to make my own curriculum.”
“[Experience Early Learning] helped give me confidence in teaching my kiddos at home with a curriculum they loved and easy guides for me to follow.”
“When I started homeschooling my oldest son I had NO idea of where to start. There are thousands of ideas on Pinterest, but that is a rabbit hole I didn't want to get lost in, besides, how would I know if I have covered everything my preschooler needs to know? Thankfully I found Experience Early Learning. Their experienced educators have put everything together for me, making sure to cover all the bases. Now, as time has passed and I have used Experience Curriculum for multiple years, I feel confident as an educator. I can easily adapt and adjust an activity to fit my children's needs. All because of the training I received as the educator using Experience Early Learning. ”