PHILOSOPHY

Preschools are not substitutes for families, nor are they organized to relieve families of their responsibilities.  Our preschool is a cooperative venture to orient and stimulate children in a wide range of learning experiences in a Christian atmosphere.  Working with the parents as assistants in the classroom helps to provide the link between home and school, thereby helping the parent to understand more fully what young children need for continued growth and learning.

Our goal is to provide what is good for children at their own stage of development.  We consider ourselves a school whose philosophy is based on the Developmental Point of View, which maintains that behavior is a function of structure and that growth is orderly, structured and predictable.  Each child will go through a somewhat predictable cycle of developmental stages.  In this respect each child is like every other child.  However, every child has a rate and pattern of growth particular to him/herself.  In this respect each child is different from every other child.

We view children as total beings.  The physical, social, emotional and intellectual aspects of development depend on and support each other.  They are not separate and one should not be focused upon to the exclusion or underemphasis of the others.

Readiness for any task has its roots in the biological/maturational makeup of the child.  We cannot produce, speed up or ignore readiness.  When children are ready, and only then, will they walk, talk, read and perform other academic functions with ease.