Our Goals
We are committed to carrying out the best practices in early childhood education and ensuring that children develop skills and knowledge which will give them a foundation for a lifetime of learning. We recognize the importance of and support the following skills, knowledge, and experiences as appropriate goals for young children.
Social/Emotional:
Social/Emotional:
- Feeling comfortable in school, getting along with others, coping with problems, self-control, expressing feelings, using language to solve problems, self-confidence.
- Eye-hand coordination, large and small muscle skills, and how the body moves.
- How to speak, how to listen, and the meaning of words.
- The joy of reading, that print makes sense, how print and speech are related, that print goes from left to right, what we say can be written down, hearing and identifying rhyming words, beginning to identify letters in name and other letters. Small muscle development, eye-hand coordination, observing writing in the classroom, using writing tools, beginning to notice and form patterns and letters, invented writing.
- Art, music, movement, building/construction, pretending, trying out new ideas…etc.
- Comparing size, shape, color, grouping, one-to-one relationships, patterns, a sense of number 1-10, measuring.
- Observing, predicting, and experimenting (i.e. “What would happen if…?”)