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STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

We believe that most children will develop needed skills and attitudes in a challenging environment with the help of caring, interested teachers. Our aim is to provide a program which will help individual young children grow spiritually, emotionally, physically, socially and intellectually. Our focus is on what the child can do and is learning rather than what the child cannot do and needs to be taught. We are more interested in the process and the thinking involved than in the end product or the mere recitation of facts or labels. We believe that learning is best accomplished by doing, and that children of preschool age require this method of learning.

Our program helps children develop habits of observation, questioning, and listening. The child learns there is freedom to make choices, and that within the limits of consideration for people and things, conformity is not always necessary. We believe an open-ended program like ours prepares the child to utilize intellectual and creative abilities in future learning tasks.

Every day, children work at centers such as; art, blocks, floor toys, table toys, puzzles, books, sensory, discovery and pretend. A staff member is always near to answer a question, offer a challenging statement, or make a requested suggestion. Class schedules include much action and movement.

 

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