To help each child gain social and personal adjustment needed for daily living.

• Child develops self-esteem by positive sense of self-identification.
• Child demonstrates self-confidence in relationships with adults by asking for help when needed and seeking affection when desired.
• Child demonstrates self-confidence in relations with other children by planning and sharing.
• Child develops ability to understand and manage his/her emotions – frustration, fear, joy etc.
• Child develops an increasing sense of responsibility appropriate for his/her age.
• Child develops persistence in completing a task and the ability to concentrate for increasing periods of time.
• Child develops a sense of time as to when activities and events occur and recur in the daily schedule.
• Objectionable behavior patterns which affect the child’s acceptance of him/herself and by others are identified and modified.

To help each child develop body and manual coordination appropriate for his/her age.

• Child develops progressively complicated gross motor skills, such as walking, stair climbing, running, hopping, dancing and playing ball.
• Child develops progressively complicated manual coordination from initial ability to grasp to eventual use of simple tools, such as crayons, scissors, hammer, etc.

To help each child develop language skills, problem-solving ability, and perception.

• The child develops verbal and communication skills as evidenced by the use of growing vocabulary, connected sentences, plurals, and understandable speech.
• The child develops number concepts by knowing his/her age, counting of objects and relationships of “more” or “less”.
• The child develops an understanding of abstract concepts such as “over and under” “up and down,” “sooner or later,” “near and far, “ etc.
• The child develops color discrimination by ability or sort and match objects by color and to name various colors.

To help each child develop creative potential.

• The child uses materials provided by the center (such as paper, glue, paints, wood, blocks, etc.) to create designs and objects.
• The child displays imagination, as in dramatic play, storytelling, etc.

To help each child develop skill and independence in caring for him/herself

• The child learns to feed him/herself and to use eating and drinking utensils properly.
• The child learns to dress him/herself, to wash, and to assume responsibility to the toilet, according to age.