Teacher/Student Ratio 2:14.

To promote Christian values by encouraging sharing, confidence, independence, and kindness.

To surround children in a happy, loving and nurturing learning environment.

To promote Self-Help/Independent Behaviors:

• Washes hands independently
• Unpacks and packs up lunch items independently
• Drinks from a cup independently
• Cleans up area after lunch and center time
• Helps to put toys away in the correct location
• Carries and hangs up personal belongings
• Recognizes own belongings and takes care of them
• Able to manage bathroom needs independently
• Follows morning and afternoon routines for unpacking and packing up
• Focuses on a task to completion
• Follows multi-step directions to complete tasks in the classroom

To promote Social/Emotional & Language Development:

• Learns to play with peers, share and communicate

• Develops security and a feeling of success

• Develops self-control, independence, and responsibility with self-help skills and daily routines

• Requires minimal reassurance/prompting from teacher to complete tasks and routines

• Works independently

• Willing to try new activities

• Participates in /cooperates during classroom activities

• Transitions from one activity to another

• Initiates, participates and communicates effectively when playing with peers

• Shows curiosity and a desire to learn

• Responds positively to adult guidance

• Demonstrates leadership skills in classroom

• Confident with peer relationships and stands up for own rights

• Begins to develop conflict-resolution skills

• Speaks clearly enough for teachers and peers to understand

• Listens attentively during large and small group instruction

• Learns to understand and follow multi-step directions

• Able to focus on a task to completion

• Asks and answers questions

• Uses creativity and imagination to interact with peer during unstructured play

• Uses classroom materials appropriately and responsibly

To promote Cognitive Development:

• Develops kindergarten readiness skills in language and math through daily work and play
• Can distinguish between numbers and letters
• Counts to 15
• Beginning to recognize numbers 0-10
• Beginning to recognize words that rhyme
• Beginning to display one-to-one correspondence when counting
• Able to classify/sort by size and color
• Demonstrates an understanding of calendar concepts
• Prints first name independently
• Gives full name, address and birthday

To promote Physical Development:

• Engages in physical activity

• Engages in playground activities

• Participates in gross motor movements (runs, jumps, climbs)

• Walks up and down stairs alternating feet

• Uses scissors to cut on a line

• Learns to hold crayons, markers, and pencils, working towards a tri-pod grip

• Works puzzles and uses classroom manipulatives

• Learns to zip and unzip clothing

• Arrival
• Table work/Puzzles/Folder Games
  
• Circle Time
• Centers
• Playground
• Lunch
• Daily Review, Story and pack-up
• Dismissal