The curriculum and the environment are the results of careful planning based on the knowledge of child growth and development. Materials with which to create. Ideas and things to talk about, relate to, compare with, match, fit into, try out, reinforce, invent, discover, and enjoy. Yet all the time the children are being continuously challenged by specific learning goals we have set for them. In order to begin to read and perform other academic tasks, the children must first gather meaning from the world and develop an awareness of concepts.
Perceptual development follows.
This is how children interpret their sensory experiences which are prerequisites for developing their minds. The program we pursue is geared toward helping children develop habits of observation, questioning, and listening. It gives them an awareness of their own feelings and of their right to express those feelings by sometimes channeling them into other means of expression. They learn they are free to make choices, and that as long as they stay within the limits of consideration for people and things, they do not always have to conform. Our program prepares children to utilize their intellectual and creative abilities in future learning tasks.