YOUNG PEOPLES LEARNING CENTER

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Our Preschool Program

Our Preschool Program is for
2 ½ - 5 year olds. They are usually now ready for a more structured and educationally based preschool program. This is offered in the morning from 9:00 – 1:00. We have different themes each week and have planned activities that work on art, music, science, literature, computers, and large & small motor skills. We offer several “enrichment” programs that include Creative Movement, Spanish, Music, as well as fun field trips.

Just as with our Toddler Program, our entire Preschool Center is geared just for this age group. This allows us to have more equipment, supplies and a playground, designed just for this age child.
The staff is very well qualified and chosen for their attitude as much as for their education and experience.

Our preschool program begins at 9:00 am every weekday. Weekly themes are selected according to the children’s interest and developmental needs. Group times, activity times, field trips, speakers, displays, songs, and games are planned around these themes. Group time is a time for discussions, stories, language arts, and learning games. Morning snack and lunch are included as a nutritional and social part of our program. Activity time is a time for teacher-directed experiences (such as creative art, craft art, baking, science, math projects, group games, etc.) and child-directed activities (such as blocks, dramatic play, workbench, art easel, climber, cognitive learning games, etc.) This “freedom of choice” time allows children to choose friends and activities they enjoy and need; they learn to socialize, explore, and create in a child-oriented environment. Enrichment-time has developed over the last couple years to be a fun and educational experience for children and staff. We choose from the following enrichments: yoga, music, computers, Spanish, creative movement, science, literature, etc., daily. Some groups also enjoy a fitness walk after lunch! A written evaluation of your child’s progress in our program will be complete in January. Parent conferences will be conducted on an “as needed basis,” as requested by parents, teachers, or directors.
 

Educational Goals and Curriculums Beliefs

To provide a happy and safe learning environment by:
Providing laughter, socialization, and fun activities
Providing constant quality supervision and the ability to foresee and prevent problems and accidents
Providing quality experiences, such as projects, field trips, and routines that encourage learning in a kind and gentle manner

To gain respect from children by:
Showing genuine interest in children
Talking with children
Playing with Children

To teach self discipline and self control by:
Providing CHOICES with consequences, not punishments
Teaching children to make good choices early in life to help them make good choices later
Speaking to children as we would want to be spoken to – kindly, gently, and most importantly with respect

Discipline
Our philosophy behind disciplining a child is to teach self-control. We want them to choose correct behavior because it will make them feel good. If a child behaves because it will please their parent or their teacher, the child may misbehave when these external controls are removed (if you leave the room or turn your back.) Our goal is to instill in your child a good internal feeling toward positive behavior.

Some steps in stopping negative behavior and accomplishing our goals of self control are: utilizing models of good behavior; talking to the child; suggesting an alternative behavior; removing the child from the situation; giving the child some time to himself to think about what he/she is doing’ and/or working out a positive reward chart.

When a child has a problem in controlling part of his/her behavior, we try to gain your support and aide in helping us deal with the problem. In addition to personally speaking to parents, we use parent notebooks or notes to keep communication going between home and school. Please make sure you know where your notebook/notes are stored and check it as often as possible.

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