Our Curriculum - Early Childhood Early Childhood Education Believing in the importance of the early childhood years, the staff at Haddonfield Friends School seeks to provide children with a nurturing learning environment. In all of the classes, creative play activities are important.
Free play encourages young children to communicate, exercise free choice, and gain confidence.
Through interaction with peers and teachers children learn acceptable ways to handle conflict, verbalize their own feelings , and accept the feelings of others. In a child-sensitive environment children learn to be independent while building a strong sense of self esteem. The children are surrounded by a print-rich environment designed to enhance their emerging literacy. Language growth and development are central to the program and are encouraged through dramatic play, class conversation, reading, and story telling. All early childhood classes benefit from participating in French, music, and physical education on a regular basis.