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Growing Years Nursery program (3 year olds) is a fully developmental program enabling your child to advance socially, emotionally, and creatively at their own pace.

Activities are selected to encourage your child to think, to communicate, to participate, and to grow in a safe comfortable and loving atmosphere.

The following is a group of goals that your child will be developing throughout the year.

       
Social/Emotional    
To feel comfortable and safe in a group situation.    
To express feelings and needs.    

To begin to solve social problems with or without a teacher's assistance

   
       
  Motor Skills    
  Gross:    
To feel comfortable with their bodies and explore running, climbing, jumping, and other movement skills.    
To begin to dress themselves.    
  Fine:    
To use pencils, markers and scissors effectively.    

To manipulate small toys in an appropriate manner.

   
       
  Cognitive    
To develop the ability to focus in group situations (story, music, small group time).    
To develop the abillity to choose an activity and work on it for an appropriate length of time.    

To develop language and conversational skills.

   
To develop memory skills (stories, songs, shapes, and games).    
   

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Growing years pre-kinderten(4 year olds) is a fully developmental program enabling your child to advance socially, emotionally, and creatively at their own pace.

Activities are selected to encourage your child to think, to communicate, to participate, and to grow in a semi-structured comfortable loving atmosphere.

The following is  a group of goals that your child will be developing for the year.

       
Social/Emotional    
Encourage sharing and including other children.    
Encourage expression of feelings.    
Consistency with limit-setting.    

Provide opportunities for experiencing success.

   
       
  Cognitive    
To develop the ability to choose an activity and work on it for an appropriate length of time.    
Be able to recognize basic shapes, colors, and math concepts.    
Recognize, write and use phonic sounds for letters    
Recognition and writing of numbers 1 - 10    

Develop memory skills

   
       
  Physical    
To provide activities and material conducive to fine motor control (i.e. cuting, ripping, tracing).    
Encourage independence (buttoning, dressing and doing things for self).    
To feel comfortable with their bodies. Explore running, climbing, jumping and other movement skills.    
   

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Growing Years kindergarten is a fully developmental program enabling your children to advance socially, emotionally, and academically at their own pace so as to be fully prepared for entrance into 1st grade.

Activities are selected to encourage the kindergarten child to think, to communicate, to participate, and to grow in a semi-structured comfortable loving atmosphere.

Our Program is based on the Creative Curriculum series along with the Weekly Reader and Scholastic Magazine to help develop creative thinking skills.

       
Goals:    
Able to write first and last name    
Recognize upper and lower case letters    
Phonic skills    

Reading skills including:
Sight words, blends, common word vocabulary
Individual level reading books
Writing skills, printing words & forming simple sentences

   

Develop math concepts:
Writing & recognition of numbers
Addition and subtraction skills

   
Computer skills    
Classification and sequencing    
Rhyming skills    
Developing listening skills    
Fine motor development    
Gross motor development    
Music Awareness/creative movement    
Storytelling/self-expression    
       
Special Features:    
Small group ratio    
Monthly science units    
Creative art activities    

Several independent field trips

   

Quarterly progress reports

   

Graduation program and ceremony

   
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Sports Stars:

Introducing children to stretching, movement exercises and a different sport each week. 

 
       
 
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Crafts:

Creative projects featuring different seasonal and holiday themes.

 
 
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Computers:

Programs teaching basics to advanced learning games.

       
 
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Yoga:

Qualified instructor introducing children to beginning postures and positions, stretching and breathing.

   
 
*** All programs usually run 6 - 8 weeks and
there are 3 sessions per year.***

 

 

 

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