Some of the objectives of the City Gan program are:
- To provide a setting in which your child will feel safe, happy and confident in themselves.
- To use your child’s interests and experiences as the basis for learning and activities.
- To help your child develop a love for learning; a love that is deep, wide, and ever growing.
- To provide opportunities for your child to learn academic skills through day-to-day activities and through interactive experiences with peers and adults.
- To encourage your child’s love for books and foster the pre-reading skills appropriate to his/her stage of development.
- To provide opportunities for your child to make discoveries and to use them in learning,developing the building blocks for the study of science.
- To encourage your child’s creativity and artistic expression.
- To encourage your child to ask questions, which will be answered sincerely and honestly.
- To develop your child’s social skills, in both one-on-one, and larger group settings.
- To encourage your child to work independently and with his or her peers.
- To provide learning materials and equipment, as well as caring and committed adults, to help your child get the most out of school and themselves.
Our staff plans, implements, and evaluates the classroom curriculum on a daily basis so that your child receives the best opportunities for high quality education. The curriculum, while reflecting children’s interests, is designed to meet the highest standards of early childhood education.
A child should go through the preschool years associating fun with learning. If we are successful at this, then that feeling will last a lifetime!