Preschool Program at C5

Friendly: Connecting to your child and being nurturing, gentle, caring, energized, and unfailingly positive

Safe: Providing carefully selected, prepared, and maintained secure environments, materials, processes, and relationships

Emotionally Accessible: Being so at all times, including during difficulties and continually relating to your child as a respected and equal partner in a caring and skillful manner

Facilitating Learning: Guiding on and adapting to your child to assist them in co-constructing optimal learning experiences where your child can make meaning that is powerful, important to them, integrated into their life, and long lasting

Community of Learners: Enhancing your child’s sense of membership in the learning group and implications for action; skills, attitudes, and knowledge involved in being an effective group member; support for peers and peer tutoring; attending to inclusion, understanding, appreciation, and sharing power and influence; working toward individual and group goals and objectives; accomplishing desired aims; and renewing as a group

Emergent Curriculum: What comes from your child becomes the curriculum. For example, their inclinations, interests, fascinations, aspirations, temperament, learning styles; and, their current social, emotional, cognitive, and physical state; and, their capacities, family cultures, etc. This provides automatic motivation, sustained energy, and a powerful sense that they are the primary agent of their ongoing learning and development.

100 Languages of Children: Introducing and developing a very wide range of materials, processes, tools, equipment, environments, concepts, and more for exploration and expression; and engaging variety in scope, scale, depth, and complexity of investigations and projects

Emphasis on Diversity: Recognizing, featuring, appreciating, and utilizing diversity in its many forms, such as in our bodies, brains, multiple intelligences, learning styles, attitudes, perspectives, approaches, materials, tools, processes, equipment, environments, languages, concepts, and cultures

Love of Learning: Finding and promoting joy in everything; attending to the climate in the group and program; and celebrating discoveries, learning, participation, efforts, contributions, failings, and accomplishments

Resource Acquisition: Children will develop skills, attitudes, and knowledge about identifying and obtaining a wide range of internal and external resources. Examples are items within the classroom, center, and building; tapping peers; recruiting parents and family members; calling in individuals with experience, ideas, and expertise from the community; going to books and online for information, perspective, and channels to other resources; cultivating positive, productive attitudes and emotional intelligence; etc.