Goals for Activities

The children in the childcare will work on the following goals through the different activities in the day. Each goal has a different level for each child’s individual development. These are reviewed and assessed through the skills checklist twice a year. Parental and guardian input is valued throughout this process.

General Goals:

• To promote physical, social, emotional, linguistic and cognitive growth within the framework of an integrated and developmentally appropriate curriculum.
• To help children construct knowledge of the world around them through thematic learning experiences, classroom learning and play centers, holiday celebrations, and current events and topics pertinent to their daily lives.
• To provide a caring and nurturing environment that fosters self-confidence, independence, a sense of community, and a feeling of security.
• To prepare each child for future learning through the development of literacy skills, communication skills, and good work habits and by setting achievable, but challenging, goals.
• To ensure that each child achieves at his/her own developmental level to meet standard expectations, with success measured by individual progress.
• To inspire creative thought and a love for learning.
• To assess each child and to provide the strategies needed for optimal learning.
• To ensure that students who are learning English receive instruction in a manner that they can understand and that is commensurate with their proficiency level.

As part of the developmental learning continuum, children in pre-kindergarten continue to develop the language, motor and social skills introduced in nursery, and to strengthen those which have been established. They are introduced to greater amount of subject- matter material as they build the foundations for learning to read and write successfully, and the interpersonal skills needed for communicating and cooperating with others.

Goals for Cognitive Development:

• To recognize objects, people and self.
• To imitate actions of others.
• To develop decision making capabilities.
• To develop problem solving skills.
• To develop language skills.
• To develop planning skills.
• To develop math skills such as matching, pairing and classification.
• To enhance creativity.
• To begin to understand scientific and physical concepts and math concepts such as gravity, cause and effect, balance, size and shape and color and volume and measurement.

Goals for Emotional Development:

• To be able to express feelings.
• To develop a concept of self.
• To develop self control.
• To develop self understanding.
• To develop a positive self image.
• To develop the ability to stick with a task to completion.

Goals for Social Development:

• To acquire social skills.
• To cooperate with other.
• To respect materials.
• To respect other people.
• To appreciate and value differences.

Goals for Physical Development:

• To refine sensory abilities.
• To develop large muscle abilities.
• To develop small muscle abilities.
• To develop eye hand coordination.
• To refine visual discrimination.
• To refine listening skills.
• To establish readiness skills.