To promote emotional growth by:
a.
Building self-confidence and a sense of self-growth by allowing choices
within limits and building on successes.
b. Providing a warm, loving, accepting environment for each child to work and
play in.
c. Encouraging a curiosity and a sense of wonder with an emphasis on self motivation.
d. Assisting in the development of self-discipline in each child.
e. Providing appropriate alternatives to angry and aggressive behavior and
strengthening inner emotional controls.
f. Opportunities to help each child identify personal feelings and the feelings
of others.
To promote social growth by:
a. Promoting and instilling a sense of caring and sensitivity toward
others.
b. Developing recognition of group needs verses individual differences.
c. Aiding in the development of problem solving skills.
d. Encouraging individual decision making power so that each child feels a
sense of control over their own lives.
e. Teaching our children to learn and seek the rewards of giving of themselves
unconditionally for the benefit of others, and reminding each other to do the
same.
f. Providing staff/child interactions which are warm, nurturing and compassionate.
g. Opportunities for each child to interact with a diversity of children.
To promote intellectual growth through:
a. Sparking
excitement in children about the opportunity to learn.
b. Empowering each child to take charge of their education, without limiting
the methods they may use to do so.
c. Encouraging children to seek knowledge in areas where the child is interested.
Giving them the flexibility to explore their own interests.
d. Providing an atmosphere where children discover and explore; teaching independence
through learning how and where to find solutions
e. Providing a wide variety of activities within an atmosphere where cooperative
play is encouraged. Curriculum areas of art, science, cooking, movement, practical
life, dramatic play, language and fine motor activities provide each child
with opportunities to trust their own feelings about what is learned, heard,
seen and done and begin sharing these experiences with others.
To promote physical/motor development by:
a. Teaching each child to use their body in a variety of active
ways by participating in large motor activities, both indoors and
outdoors.
b. Teaching fine motor skills through the use of manipulative toys, blocks,
and puzzles and other small tools and objects.
c. Promoting physical growth and competence at each child’s developmental
level.
d. Meeting each child’s nutritional needs through well-balanced meals
and snacks.
e. A daily rest of nap. |