- Children learn decision making in a supportive environment where choices are offered regarding activities.
- Children learn responsibility for decisions. They work for themselves and their growth rather than for teacher approval.
- Children use tools, such as magnets, microscopes, scales, magnifying lenses and computers, to explore the environment.
| - Children verbalize needs to adults and peers, learn to share, wait for a turn, and empathize with others.
- Children develop an attention span appropriate to their age.
- Children refine perceptual skills and motor movements as readiness skills in the context of hands-on, theme-related activities.
- Children are involved in language arts and bookmaking. They learn relationships between speech and written words.
- Children learn concepts related to letters, size, number, and color in the context of hands-on, theme-related activities.
- Children participate in activities and share experiences designed to show that learning and the quest for knowledge are stimulating, entertaining, and intrinsically rewarding.
- Children become familiar with science concepts such as interrelationships in nature and conservation within the context of hands-on, theme-related activities.
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