Mission Statement: To Nurture the natural curiosity of children as a foundation for life-long learning.
The philosophy of the CCC has its basis in a humanistic view of the child as an individual learner within a community of learners. The aim of the program is to respond to the needs of every child as s/he develops awareness of the world and readiness for learning. Within a STEM based program, each group provides developmentally appropriate materials and activities for the whole child in the areas of social/emotional, cognitive, language, and physical development, while fostering a positive self-concept.
Curriculum
The Children’s Center uses a constructivist approach, that is children constructing knowledge based on real experiences, inspired by other various educational approaches such as the Project Approach, Emergent Curriculum, Maria Montessori’s Practical Life and Game Shelf, Reggio Emilia, and Froebel Gifts to build a learning environment that tells children they are respected, trusted, capable, and competent in their own learning. In whole, our goal is to emphasize and nurture the process, not the product. Our inquiry-based curriculum can last anywhere from two months to a year. We use broad science concepts such as form and function, change, systems and interaction, stability, force and motion, simple machines, cause and effect, just to name a few, to build our curriculum around.
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