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Country Kids Learning Center is committed to providing an optimal learning experience for each individual child and in providing a community of learners who feel safe, nurtured and well-cared for.
Fostering good citizenship, social/emotional development and motivated learners is a priority at Country Kids. Our progressive curriculum is differentiated and tailored to follow the needs and interests of our students. We encourage our students to listen, ask questions and construct new knowledge based on their inquiries. The teachers are available to observe, listen and guide the children – often learning right alongside the children through literature studies, questioning and researching. Experiences, learning opportunities and materials are made readily available to help scaffold the children to their next individual level of development.
At Country Kids, the environment acts as a ‘third-teacher’. The beautiful and well-maintained indoor and outdoor learning environment is aesthetically pleasing to one’s eye and offers an endless variety of educational choices for children to play, learn and discover. The science, math, art, building, reading, dramatic play, sensory and outdoor areas are continuously being changed and updated to meet the current interests of our students.
Building community amongst our students and families is encouraged through volunteer opportunities both in and outside of the classroom, special events, sharing of traditions, field trips and through spending time together as a whole group at holiday and achievement program celebrations. It is our belief that the parents are our students’ first teachers and we are committed to communicating with our families through daily conversations, electronic correspondence, phone communications and bi-monthly newsletters and activity calendars. The home-school connection is essential and is emphasized through special projects which encourage family participation in working with their child to complete the projects throughout the year together. Our teachers and staff are always available to meet with a parent or child when there is a question or concern, or to discuss a child’s progress.
Our primary goal at Country Kids Learning Center is to nurture each child’s ability to learn to get along in their world, to be able to communicate their needs, wants and desires, to be interested in learning and to inquire about the world around them through questioning, exploring, experimenting, analyzing and synthesizing. Most importantly, to help instill a life-long love of learning in them which will carry them well-beyond their early years of grade school.
"In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully."
— Louise Boyd Cadwell (Bringing Reggio Emilia Home: An Innovative Approach to Early Childhood Education)
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