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PROGRAM GOALS - FOR
ALL CHILDREN
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To
promote emotional growth:
A. To build self-confidence and a positive sense of self
worth by allowing choices,
within limits and to incorporate successful
experiences.
B. To provide a warm and accepting environment in which
children can work and
play.
C. To encourage curiosity and sense of wonder with
emphasis on self-motivation.
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To
promote social growth:
A. To promote and instill a sense of caring for and
sensitivity towards others.
B. Recognition of group needs vs. individual
differences.
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To
promote intellectual growth:
A. To instill a sense of curiosity and wonder.
B. To provide an atmosphere where children discover and
explore - in order to teach
independence through teaching how and where
to find solutions.
C. To provide a wide variety of activities within a
routine where cooperative play is
encouraged. Curriculum areas of art, math,
science, culinary, music, movement,
large motor skills, practical life, dramatic
play, language arts and fine motor skills
and activities. Through these activities,
children are learning to be able to trust
their own feelings about what they learn, hear, see,
and do and thus begin sharing
these experiences with others.
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To
promote physical, motor development:
A. For children to use their bodies in a variety of
active ways by participating in fine
and large motor activities, both indoors and
outdoors.
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