Social development is your child’s ability to interact with peers, including helping themselves and learning self-control. This focuses on a child’s social and emotional development and teaches the child to be sensitive to the needs and feelings of others. Show respect for people of other cultures and beliefs. Take turns and share fairly and treat living things, property and environment with care and concern. We encourage physical activities in motor skills that promote communication and corporation rather than competition.

Along with our daily routine programming we leave time for group and individual free play, which is essential for this area of the child’s development. Circle time, free play indoors and outdoor play area all facilitate social and emotional development.

This focuses on a child’s language development and foundation of literacy. The child acquires competence in the spoken language – talking and listening and gains pre-reading and writing skills.

• Our daily reading programs will indefinitely enrich your child’s language skills. During reading time, children will be read books appropriate to their own level. By reciting nursery rhymes and poems, participating in Show and Tell and listening and responding to stories. They may also choose from an array of books in our library, for one of their own liking that will be read to them.

This is the child’s ability to use small muscles, specifically their hands and fingers, to pick up small objects, hold a spoon, turn pages in a book, or use a crayon to draw.

• We find that one of the most anticipated parts of a child’s day is arts and crafts time. During this time, children will partake in art activities such as making papier-mâché, drawing pictures, or painting and coloring, gluing and sticking to create artwork.

Outdoor playtime will improve gross motor skills in your child, as regular physical activity is proven to be essential for proper development. It will improve their ability to communicate.

Focuses on development of the child’s imagination and ability to communicate and to express ideas and feelings in creative ways through dramatic play. This helps to develop curiosity, creativity and independence in a child and makes a child confident and develops self-esteem and decision making capabilities.

Your child will show an increasing ability to use his or her imagination and to listen and observe through: Art, Music, Dance, Stories and Imaginative play, and use of varied range of materials, tools and other resources.,