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PROGRAM GOALS
The goals of Cedar Lane Nursery School are to provide the kind of environment and varied experience that will:
- Foster an enthusiasm for learning and an active curiosity.
- Promote emotional growth by building self-confidence and a sense of self- worth.
- Help each child develop an inner sense of discipline and self-control.
- Encourage children to be responsible members of a group.
- Promote positive social development by developing social interaction skills, and promoting empathetic and caring behavior toward others.
- Nurture children by providing loving care in a safe and healthy environment.
- Provide opportunities to interact with the world around them.
Further objectives include providing opportunities that will allow children to:
- Accept frustration as a part of learning.
- Develop creative and imaginative powers.
- Develop self-expression.
- Develop control of their bodies and kinesthetic awareness by using large and small muscles.
- Develop at their own rate.
- Develop their own interests.
- Develop their ability to perceive through the five senses.
- Develop their use of language to increasingly meet their needs and express their thoughts.
- Begin developing thought patterns to help them think clearly and problem solve.
- Develop their listening skills and attention span.
- Develop their resting and relaxing skills.
- Develop some number concepts.
- Begin developing an appreciation for science and scientific investigation as well as knowledge about how our world works.
- Begin developing an appreciation for other cultures and customs.
- Develop an interest in the printed word.
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Last Update : August
27 , 2009