A Learning Center helps to build a child’s confidence and increase motivation. If children can feel good about themselves and their ability to learn, they will have a great chance to do well when they start school. At our center your child will be encouraged to learn:

1. Appropriate Social Behavior Such as waiting for turns, sharing, participating in group activities, following directions given by the teacher, settling disagreements verbally, making needs known, and recognizing the needs and rights of others.

2. Language Skills Such as asking and answering questions, listening to a story, retelling a story or describing an event, and making up a story.

3. Community Functions Such as learning and observing the roles of different people in the center, neighborhood, and places in the neighborhood; also learning about their own role in the center, such as being responsible for putting away toys that have been taken from the shelves.

4. Appropriate Uses of Materials Such as art supplies, toys, and other items in the classroom.

5. Freedom of Expression and Creativity Children should be encouraged to create drawings without having to follow a specific model. Children should also be encouraged to discover various alternative ways to use objects, such as a twig for a paintbrush or a box for a rectangle tracer.

6. Cultural Literacy Learning popular songs and rhymes, group games that develop their ability to play with others, and learning about cultures, holidays, and other celebrations. Children’s cultures will be celebrated as holiday celebrations and special family traditions.

7. Family Values Identify and reinforce experiences occurring in family-life that can be utilized as educational learning activities for children.

8. Respect of Nature and Animals Learning to take care of the environment by throwing away garbage appropriately and recycling materials, the care and responsibility of having a pet and the appreciation of animals and the environment in which we live.

9. Parents Staff and parents will assist each other to increase their knowledge, understanding, skills and experience of child growth and development and thereby, know the child as a unique person.