Space Coast Early Intervention Center
Preschool in Melbourne, FL 32904
Space Coast Early Intervention Center (SCEIC) is Brevard’s premiere preschool for children with and without special needs. Located in Melbourne Florida our unique inclusive program ensures equal learning opportunities for all children regardless of ability. Our goal is to provide children with the academic and social skills needed to succeed in life.
We offer full and part-time preschool programs for children beginning at age 13 months to 5 years. In addtion we also have after-school care for ages 5 to 9 and our Kindergarten and Beyond Summer program offers exciting summer day camp activities.
Additional Services: Full Day Half Day After School
- Child Ages:
- 1 year - 9 years
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- Florida Department of Children and Families - APPLE Accredited
- Special Needs:
- Please contact us for more information
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- Monday_Friday 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM
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SCEIC uses HighScope Preschool Curriculum Handwriting Without Tears and Conscious Discipline in our preschool programs.
HighScope is an active participatory learning approach to teaching. HighScope is designed around key development indicators in the following eight content areas:
Language Literacy and Communication: talking to others about experiences; writing in a variety of ways; reading stories and symbols; dictating and making up stories and poems; anticipating remembering and describing a sequences of events.
Social and Emotional Development: taking care of ones own needs; expressing feelings with words; building relationships; participating in collaborative play; working through conflict
Physical Development and Health: motor skills and movement; moving objects; describing movement; moving to a beat; moving in sequence
Mathematics: comparing (shorter/longer bigger/smaller); arranging patterns; fitting objects through trial and error; comparing numbers in a set (fewer/more); counting; filling and emptying; interpreting spatial relationships; changing shape of objects; describing positions directions and distances from a variety of viewpoints; learning about time by starting and stopping an action on signal; describing rates of movement and comparing time intervals;.
Science and Technology: Recognizing objects by sight sound touch taste and smell; describing similarities differences and attributes of objects; distinguishing shapes; sorting and matching; describing characteristics something does not possess or what class it does not belong to; exploring and manipulating mediums to create new products; learning about cause and effect
Social Studies: Participating in group routines: being sensitive to the feelings interests and needs of others
Creative Arts: Making models out of clay blocks and other materials; relating models to real objects; drawing and painting; pretend play and role playing; imitation; moving to music; singing songs; playing musical instruments.
