Award-winning Curriculum for Extraordinary Kids

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InvestiGators™

Childhood is too short for ordinary curriculum.
Click on the character cards to meet and get to know the InvestiGators™ who started the InvestiGator Club®. Every child (and grownup) can relate to their favorite character and story.

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Rosalita Sausalita™

Superpower: I can dance like the wind.

Hola! I’m Rosalita Sausalita™, and I live at Miss Lilly’s Pads in City Square™. I love Spanish, museums, fashion, ballet, and computers, and I’m great at self-regulation and showing empathy! Meet me to check out my story, favorite song, and poster.

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Bruno Buzzbee™

Superpower: I can learn about anything on Bruno’s Buzz Network.

Hi there! I’m Bruno Buzzbee™, and I live in an old tree stump in Circle Forest™. I love writing, using the Internet to find information, and delivering Bee Mail, and I’m known for my patience and gratitude! Meet me to check out my story, favorite song, and poster.

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Great Auntie Lu™

Superpower: I can create a masterpiece.

Hello, friends! I’m Great Auntie Lu™, and I live on a houseboat at Triangle Beach™. I love painting, sculpting, telling stories, and helping all my little InvestiGators™ with listening, paying attention, and focusing! Meet me to check out my story, favorite song, and poster.

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JT Gator™

Superpower: I can cheer you up with a bouncy tune.

Hi! I’m JT Gator™, and I live on a houseboat at Triangle Beach™. I love music, the blues, playing the harmonica, and traveling, and I’m skilled at overcoming fear, solving problems, and spreading kindness! Meet me to check out my story, favorite song, and poster.

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Manny Salamander™

Superpower: I am a good sport.

Hey there! I’m Manny Salamander™, and I live at Miss Lilly’s Pads in City Square™. I love health, sports, soccer, and rhyming, and I’m great at taking turns, self-regulation, and seeing things from different perspectives! Meet me to check out my story, favorite song, and poster.

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Chuck Wood™

Superpower: I can fix everything, including hurt feelings.

Hello! I’m Chuck Wood™, and I live in Diggery Den in Circle Forest™. I love math, superheroes, gadgets, and fixing things, and I’m all about kindness, sharing, and using critical thinking to stay safe and healthy! Meet me to check out my story, favorite song, and poster.

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Dilly Gator™

Superpower: I can solve mysteries.

Hi there! I’m Dilly Gator™, and I live on a houseboat at Triangle Beach™. I love science, exploring, reading, and solving problems, and I enjoy working together with others and using creativity to tackle challenges! Meet me to check out my story, favorite song, and poster.

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Steeped in science and story, the InvestiGators™ connect children to their world.

STEM + Art = STEAM

Through investigation and hands-on projects, children learn to think like scientists, construct mathematical concepts, appreciate fine art and music, use simple tools and machines, invent, and create.

Language and Literacy

We develop young readers by fostering imagination and a love of books and storytelling. Through quality interactions with peers and adults, children build a strong foundation for literacy, communication, vocabulary development, writing, and verbal problem solving.

Social and Emotional

Stories, characters, and play-based activities build bridges to the real world and inspire children to talk about and practice social and emotional skills, such as empathy and kindness, sharing, taking turns, and self-regulation.

Physical Development

Every InvestiGator Club day is filled with active indoor and outdoor play. We know that physical activity is not only important for good health, but also for engaged, mindful learning.

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Early Childhood Curriculum Girl with book

Join our community of teachers and parents and get the next book in our new InvestiGators™ COMICS series.
Reading is fun with the InvestiGators™.

Fill out the form below to receive the second book in the InvestiGators™ COMICS series. Starring Chuck Wood™ is adapted from the Superhero to the Rescue Lapbook and the Dilly and Chuck Wood Little Book. Chuck is the superhero of sharing and kindness. Plus, he has all the gadgets in his tool belt to solve any problem! This InvestiGator Club® series steps up the fun while targeting phonological awareness and vocabulary aligned with Science of Reading. For explicit literacy instruction, Starring Chuck Wood can be used with the Under Construction Teacher Guide, the Starring Chuck Wood Play and Learn Guide, or the Investigate Building Parent Guide.

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Public and Private

Early Childhood

Education

Infant through kindergarten programs are on state approved lists and align with frameworks and standards in every state.

Correlations

Head Start &

Early Head Start

Infant through pre-K programs are carefully aligned to the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework.

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Special

Education

The InvestiGator Club® Teacher Guides provide differentiation tips and tools throughout the program. The Adaptive Learning Resource Guide on the Digital Platform provides extensive background, research, lesson modifications, and environmental adaptions to support children with various developmental or special needs.

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Faith-Based

Preschool

Investigate God’s World offers Bible stories, songs, and activities for faith-based learning.

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My students are totally engaged with the new curriculum.  It reaches all the learning styles (auditory, kinesthetic, visual, etc.). The children have come to love the puppets and have make connections with these characters, as we have moved through the units of study. I like how the curriculum gives differentiation tips, ESOL tips, etc. throughout each unit of study.  This makes it so easy to adjust my teaching strategies, as needed, to meet students’ needs. I really like the curriculum!
Martha
Forts Pond Elementary School, SC

I wanted to take a few minutes and thank you for developing not only an impressive curriculum for childcare and Head Start programs, but for bridging the gap for family engagement with Dilly’s Tree House.  As you know our industry has changed dramatically and we all need to keep up with if not ahead of the changes.  You have done just that with the Investigator Club curriculum and Dilly’s Tree House.  I can’t wait to see what you have around the corner for us.
Brenda, Owner/Director
Prime Time, Owings, MD

We love the curriculum! The InvestiGator Club allows me to be flexible with my lessons to switch what I need to, to add more lessons when we have free time and to build onto what we learned in the morning for my extended care students. I’m very happy that we got it!!
Hannah
King’s Kids Early Learning Center
Honolulu, HI

The Maryland State Department of Education has awarded contracts for many InvestiGator Club Learning Systems. Robert-Leslie Publishing has shown a genuine interest in a partnership that goes beyond a financial transaction by supporting our providers with quality products and services that include curriculum, family engagement, and professional development.
Zina, Administrative Aide
Maryland State Department of Education
Baltimore, MD

The InvestiGator Club Early Childhood Curriculum is grounded in sound child development principles that are fully aligned with Head Start child development principles. The foundation for the curriculum is built upon the belief that children learn best by interacting in a developmentally appropriate and challenging environment through relationships with teachers. The foundational principles fully align with the Head Start development principles of orderly and sequential development and the influence of a child’s social and cultural context.
Curricula Review for Head Start
The National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning (NCQTL)

I love the program! It has great ideas and sometimes I take off with it and add more to the activities. It incorporates all the subjects and the students love it! The phonological awareness is amazing and my students have honestly grown more than ever!
Mandy, Teacher
Gilbert Primary School, SC

The Investigator Club has proven to be a great curriculum for my inclusive preschool classroom. I love how it covers all subject areas from math to science to literacy to social skills. I am able to simply open up the curriculum and have everything I need without having to search around for more ideas. This is my first year using InvestiGator Club, and I am very impressed with the content, themes, materials, and resources in this curriculum. I’m excited to use it for the years to come!
Jessy, Teacher
King George County Schools, VA

The InvestiGator Club is a wonderful, engaging, and exciting early childhood curriculum. It makes my job as an educator fun and rewarding to listen to my students’ excitement over what they are learning. The children have made tremendous gains this year.
Madeline, Teacher
Gilbert Primary School, SC

The InvestiGator Club Early Childhood Curriculum has been a perfect fit for our school. It has adapted to, supported, and enhanced our innovation by offering abundant human and material resources and support for the launch and implementation of our Dual Language program.
William, Principal
St. Mary Magdalen School, TX

We recently purchased a large quantity of Pre-K learning systems for Workforce Solutions Northeast Texas. From the initial inquiry through purchase, shipment, and training their service and customer support has been top notch. Our providers are very pleased with the curriculum and state it is easy to use and they love it.
Marla, Program Director Child Care Services
Workforce Solutions Northeast Texas
Texarkana, TX

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