We
believe that a high quality child care center must
provide a safe, healthy, and nurturing
environment. A high quality center must promote
the development of young children by planning and
offering developmental appropriate practices
(DAP)
within our program while responding to the needs
of families. We believe that all of our staff must
be well trained, qualified, supportive, and
nurturing.
The majority of our children spend approximately 9
1/2 hours per day for approx. 252 days
at school
per year. This constitutes a major portion of a
child’s non-sleeping time during the year.
This center therefore, not only has the
opportunity but also it has a great responsibility
to contribute to the total growth and development
of
the
children. We believe in understanding and
nurturing the range and variety of abilities of
our children so that each child can begin to
realize his fullest potential.
Our
Goal
To provide the best learning environment
through Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP).
Emotional:
To nurture each child with love and devotion.
Physical:
To provide a variety of equipment, activities, and
opportunities to promote physical development.
Cognitive:
To provide activities and opportunities that
encourage curiosity, exploration, and problem
solving appropriate to the developmental levels
and learning of the children.
Communication:
To actively communicate with the children
to promote literacy
and provide opportunities and support for children
to understand, acquire, and use verbal thoughts
and feelings.
Creative:
To provide opportunities that stimulate children
to play with sound, rhythm, language, materials,
space, and ideas in individual ways and to express
their abilities.
Self:
To provide physical and emotional security for
each child to know, accept, and take pride in
himself, and to develop a sense of independence.
Guidance:
To help children feel accepted in the group and to
get along with others.
We strive to influence the learning process by
offering creative play and by developing
individual plans that will help children to grow
and learn.
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