Philosophy
A statement of Philosophy and Goals
We feel the following goals are essential for a quality early childhood program that builds a sound foundation.
- Make each child's school experience a positive one.
- Encourage positive feelings about self, the school, and the environment.
- Provide opportunities for thinking at all levels: recall, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of knowledge.
- Stimulate each child's thought processes to bring greater understanding, awareness, and curiosity.
- Provide an environment and activities that promote optimal physical development.
- Provide a classroom and program that can meet the needs of each individual child.
- Encourage sharing and cooperation.
- Encourage each child to play and work well independently and in groups.
- Provide opportunities for self-expression for each child through language, dramatics, art, music, and play.
- Increase each child's attention span.
- Help each child to recognize the rights, feelings, and property of others.
- Aid each child to adapt to new situations.
- Encourage each child to solve problems independently.
- Foster each child's appreciation for language in many different forms.
- Introduce the use and need for numbers in daily life.
- Develop the ability to think logically and make associations.
- Introduce the concepts of time and order.
- Increase each child's awareness of the relationship of his or her body and other objects to space.
- Foster awareness of the environment, our responsibility to it, and the changes that can occur in it.
- Encourage independence in tending to personal needs.
- Give each child an awareness of the local community and other communities near and far.