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Our curriculum offers a variety of learning opportunities where children can make self-directed and guided choices. We use a whole child approach to learning which includes:
• Social/Emotional Development: friendship building, self-help skills, managing and expressing feelings, following rules & routines, explore a sense of self, family, and friends.
• Physical Development: creative movement, running, jumping, balancing, coloring, cutting, writing, play dough, manipulatives, puzzles, Legos.
• Language Development: songs, stories, music, fingerplays, nursery rhymes, books, magazines, classroom labels, charts, writing center, introduction to writing upper and lower case letters, following routines, retelling of stories/events, playing games
• Cognitive Development: counting, one to one correspondence, number recognition, shapes, colors, measuring, patterning, sequencing, graphing, sensory table, gardening, recycling
• Creative Development: music, creative movement, dramatic play, instruments, open ended art activities.
• Please have your child(ren) dressed for both indoor and outdoor play before coming to daycare.
• A Yoga mat (Gymenist Yoga Mat with carrying strap”); sleeping bag for nap time (Blues Clues or Minnie Mouse Toddler Nap Mat). (Both items are available at Walmart).
• Your child must have at least one change of clothes in their cubby at all times.
• LABEL ALL INDOOR AND OUTDOOR CLOTHING.
Families, communities and early childhood educators have a responsibility to provide nurturing, safe environments that promote healthy development for each individual child. Children entering kindergarten vary in their early experiences, skills, knowledge, language, culture and family background. Schools must be ready to address the diverse needs of the children and families in their community and be committed to the success of every child. Physical well-being, social development, and curiosity are very important for kindergarten readiness. Children are ready for kindergarten when they can: communicate their needs, wants, and thoughts, engage in new activities, follow directions, regulate their behaviors, demonstrate age- appropriate academic skills, and respect others.
The greatest gifts we can give our children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
