Personal Values & Skills:

• Learning to manage feelings

• Develop the ability to organize, plan and follow through on simple tasks

• Increase ability to make wise choices and decisions in a consistent manner

• Develop the ability to set standards for personal behavior and to live by them, reaching immediate concepts of right and wrong

• Establish routine and patterns of living

• Find both satisfactions and limitation in the field of make-believe

• Expect failures as well as successes
   

Academic Learning:

• Satisfying natural curiosity resulting in creative learnings

• Develop new interests and build on recent ones

• Bring to consciousness their environment that he/she does not perceive (physical and biological)

• Learn to think, learn how things are done

• Expand knowledge through exploration, investigation, assimilation and reflection

• Develop appreciation and interest in books

• Apply mathematic and scientific information to a solution of a problem
   

Group Values & Relationships:

• Feeling wanted, valued and cared for by his/her peers and adults in his/her life

• Become a social person, learn to interact with age mates

• Learn to be a part of a social group

• Learn to share and cooperate with others

 

Partnership with Parents:

• Learn to relate self to family and near associates

• Selection of clothing, toys and activities appropriate for his/her development level

• Develop and understanding of change through developmental sequence

• Participate in educational experiences that cannot be offered through the home situation, extending experiences through cooperative involving teacher, parent and child

• Begin to recognize his/her individuality through identification with family members and other age peers

 

Our enrollment consists of families with diverse cultural backgrounds. In relation, our curriculum emphasizes multi-cultural awareness. One component for our Pre-K collaboration includes the integration of Spanish and Sign Language lessons.  Furthermore weekly diversity lessons are completed in each classroom.  These lessons tie into the planning involved in creating a variety of multi-cultural themed meals that the children enjoy for lunch every Friday.