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Goals For Grace Pre School Day Care Center
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The purpose of
Grace Preschool Day Care Center shall be to provide a safe family-like
environment for the children of families of our community, ten hours a
day, five days a week throughout the year. This further purpose will be to
provide within the above framework an early childhood education for all
participating in its program. We recognize that each child is an
individual with a personality and talents distinct from others. The basic
needs to establish trust, satisfy curiosity and maintain good health are
shared by all.
During the school year it will be the desire, goal and responsibility of
the teachers in the group to provide experiences which will meet the
child's needs and enable him or her to develop to his or her own fullest
capacity, without the restrictions of an imposed time table of
accomplishment.
Great emphasis will be placed upon language development and the curriculum
will play oriented so as to stimulate communication. Play is a practicing
ground for skills development. Through play activities, the exploring,
experimental, imaginative nature of the child will, hopefully be nurtured.
Through play we hope to plant the seeds of knowledge and establish
beginning concepts.
We will strive to keep activities as free of detail as possible,
stimulating and above all, available so that the child's curiosity and
interest in his world will prepare him/her for an active participating
role in society. We hope to establish individual goals through:
 Socializing (respecting the
rights of others and getting along with others and getting with out
children)
Physical activities (creating an
interest in organized activities that help to develop large and small
muscles)
Nutrition (learning about foods
and eating habits; good health)
Health (learning about their
bodies)
Arts and Crafts (traditional and
self-expression)
Books (creating an awareness of
the real and make-believe world and distinguishing between the two)
Science (providing activities
which lead children into first hand expression with concrete materials and
which lead them to develop inquiry
skills)
Multi cultural (creating an
awareness of different cultures)
Play (exploring, experimenting,
imagining)
Music creating an interest in
classics,foreign songs which emphasize other cultures and traditional
songs and music. Experimenting with instruments and creating musical
instruments using the body in various movements to express inner feelings.
While there will be much freedom, there will also be limits compatible
with the group's need. We feel that freedom to grow depends on limits
while
help the child feel secure and comfortable with his or her self, with
others, and with his environment.
Time will be set aside to work with each child individually. A wide
variety of activities will be provided to reinforce instruction on letter
recognition
and numerals. colors, geometric shapes, opposite concepts, etc. These
activities will be presented through commercial and teacher-made games,
block-building, cooking rhythms, poetry, etc.
Finally, we will try to install the concept that work accomplished and
done to the best of one's ability is in itself the best reward. We will
try to
climinate the words "I can't" to "I will try" and
eventually to "Yes I can!" |
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