Miss Barbara's Child Development Center

Our preschool program is designed to provide a successful introduction and foundation for learning and social interaction. We strive to create a mental alertness and natural liking for school as well as help to create well adjusted social skills. The specific aims are to develop reading readiness, introduce number concepts, and to create social adjustment.  Social studies and health concepts are also estabilished and included in the language program. The children are also introduced to science with an emphasis on nature and weather studies.  Our monthly calendars and newsletters keep you posted as to what is going on each month.  The teachers weekly lesson plans are posted so you can see what skills your child is learning.

• Approximately 2 years of age?
• Increasingly interested in being social?
• Capable of feeding him/herself?
• Able to comprehend simple verbal communication?
• Capable and desires being independent

Primary goals for our Toddler Program:

• Individually meet the needs of every child.
• Help develop a positive self-image.
• Encourage independence through learning self-care skills (bathroom use, washing, dressing, etc).
• Encourage verbalization, problem solving and social interaction.
• Foster large and small motor development.
• Stimulate cognitive growth by promoting awareness of colors, shapes, numbers, parts of the body.
• Promote imaginative play through stories, songs, dance, coloring, painting and outside play.
• Encourage, but do not pressure, children to become independent by using the toilet.

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Is your child:

• Approximately 36 months of age?
• Fully toilet trained?
• Able to listen to an adult speaking in a group?
• Stay on task for a longer length of time?
• Able to verbalize needs?
• Able to understand and follow simple directions?
• Able to function within a group of children?

Primary Goals of our Preschool Program:

• Fosters language learning, including identification of the alphabet.
• Encourages experiences with a variety of materials.
• Fosters a daily routine that requires them to make choices, discover problems, explore solutions and share experiences.

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