* Introduces children to Christian values: love,
forgiveness, caring, sharing, respect among peers, staff, family and others.
* Provides the opportunity to learn about Jesus
through Bible stories, songs, and flannel boards.
* Promotes awareness of ideals and beliefs of Christian lifestyles.
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Offers the opportunity to express questions, curiosities, fears about life, and the world around them.
* Provides relaxing play in a social situation thereby encouraging the handling of emotions, dealing with conflict, sharing,
caring, etc.
* Exploration of dimensional form with changeable medium that provides sensory pleasure and concepts of color,
shape, size, number, texture, and form.
* Coordination of hand, arm, eye, torso muscles and use of finer muscles.
* Outlet
for expression, creativity, and discovery.
* Develops awareness of self, others, and the environment.
* Stimulus for physical growth and development such as muscle
strength and endurance, cardiovascular endurance, and flexibility.
* Stimulus for neuromotor and perceptual/motor development,
such as coordination, agility, posture, balance, body image, laterality, eye-hand and eye-foot coordination.
* Appreciation for the printed word.
* Excellent for language development.
* Beginning foundations for future reading
readiness, being able to listen, sit still, and coordination of the eyes.
* Allows the child to expand his experiences, and
knowledge through unfamiliar people, places, and objects.
* Social play reproduces real life situations on a child-sized scale.
* Emotional satisfaction through the use of
fantasy.
* Identification with adult and child roles through spontaneous play.
* Encourages language development.
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Clarifies role concepts - parents, doctors, bus drivers, etc.
* Stimulates social development and problem solving.
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Enhances the child's self-concept and self-confidence as he or she succeeds in play.
* Interaction with other children in
social situations.
* Physical development of large and fine motor coordination.
* Mathematical - classification, size, shape, measurement,
and area.
* Science - gravity, balance, stability, trial and error, weight, and problem solving.
* Language Arts -
exchange.
* Helps the child become aware of the world around him/her.
* Concepts developed for weight, texture, size, beginning math,
measurement, temperature, and classification of information.
* Increases the child's language in encouraging him or her to talk
about objects of happenings.
* Investigation on either an individual or a group basis.
* Gives the child the responsibility
for handling objects and instruments properly.
* Stimulates curiosity, cause and effect, and problem solving.
* Practice in eye-hand coordination.
* Concept formation dealing with size, shape, color, and numbers.
* Stimulates
imagination and abstract thinking.
* Assists in the development of fine motor skills.
* Development of coordination from the use of various accessories with water: funnels, sponges, containers, and toys.
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Science experiences with properties of water - displacement, buoyancy, momentum of objects in water, absorbency, weight, and
volume.
* Relaxing and emotionally satisfying.
* Promotes cooperative play.
* Mathematical - empty, full, half-full,
etc.
* Auditory discrimination - differentiation of tone, pitch, rhythm.
* Relaxing for the individual or group.
* Energy
release.
* Increases vocabulary and word recognition.
* Exploration in sound, numbers, coordination of movements, and
memory-recall.
* Promotes the awareness of many cultural groups living in peace and harmony.
* Stimulates the concept that people are
equal regardless of dress, appearance or customs.
* Promotes recognition of individual uniqueness and cultural influences on
behavior.
* Develop problem solving skills, promotes pre-reading and math skills, and acquisition of basic science concepts.
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Ability to group and classify items, to arrange items in a logical order, and to tell what comes next.
* Ability to formulate
common associations, to identify objects that are identical as well as different.
* Ability to grasp elementary principles of
cause and effect.
* Ability to transfer learning in order to facilitate the solving of problems.
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