Grounded in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, Explorations provide instructional opportunities for 3-K for All teaching staff, children, and families to connect, explore materials, and learn together. Explorations invite engagement in comprehensive, in-depth, play-based learning across domains. Topics and activities in Explorations begin with routines and the classroom community then progress to more abstract ideas throughout the year.
Explorations are grounded in research on developmental expectations which outline the skills, behaviors and concepts our program fosters as we engage with our young learners.
The three Explorations are Our Community, Our Environment and Our Impact. They are designed to be implemented in 3-K for All classrooms over the course of the ten-month program year. By using the three Explorations as written, programs will support all of the preschool goals included in the framework.
