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Bright Beginnings Preschool is dedicated to providing the Folsom area with a permanent, non-profit parent cooperative of high standards. Our school offers opportunities for pre-school children and their parents to grow and develop progressively according to individual needs and to experience regular association, under trained guidance, with other children and parents.
Bright Beginnings Preschool strives to provide an environment where children:
1. Are allowed to be children.
2. Have options and can make choices.
3. Are given opportunities to be in control.
4. Are able to touch what is visible to the eye and within reach.
5. Are able to manipulate and change things.
6. Can enhance their creativity.
7. Have play experiences that are relevant to their age and needs.
8. Are challenged to move and act on their environment.
Bright Beginnings Preschool strives to provide a program where children:
1. Develop a positive self-image
2. Develop independence.
3. Feel safe, protected and secure.
4. Feel welcomed and loved.
5. Learn self-control, trust, and confidence.
6. Learn to cope with frustration and master feelings.
7. Are respected as individuals and learn to respect feelings, people, animals, and materials.
8. Learn to adjust to new experiences.
9. Experience pride and accomplishment.
10. Learn to appreciate themselves and each other.
Bright Beginnings Preschool strives to provide a program where children:
1. Experience friendship.
2. Learn to cooperate, share, take turns, and participate in group activities.
3. Learn to like others and maintain mutually satisfying relationships.
4. Learn techniques for getting along with others.
5. Learn to adjust to group situations.
6. Become aware of the rights of others.
7. Have opportunities to work and play cooperatively.
8. Develop pro-social behavior such as empathy, generosity, turn-taking, and care giving.
Bright Beginnings Preschool strives to provide a program where children:
1. Question, explore and problem solve.
2. Learn about the concepts of shape, color, size, classification, number, time and space.
3. Develop memory skills.
4. Use all of their senses to explore their world.
5. Observe, discover, compare, organize, question, solve problems, and anticipate results.
Bright Beginnings Preschool strives to provide a program where children:
1. Develop verbal skills by communicating their thoughts and feelings.
2. Develop language skills by using language-rich materials.
3. Develop language skills through language-rich activities.
4. Are encouraged to listen and speak through the use of books and stories.
Bright Beginnings Preschool strives to provide a program where children:
1. Develop creativity through playful expression and freedom of activity.
2. Explore a variety of art materials.
3. Can create products free from value judgment.
4. Have the opportunity to have fun with music.
5. Are encouraged to express themselves through music, art, dance, and dramatic play.
Bright Beginnings Preschool strives to provide a program where children:
1. Have access to equipment and activities to promote large and small motor skill development in and out of the classroom.
2. Move their bodies in a variety of ways.
Bright Beginnings Preschool will strive to:
1. Maintain a safe classroom environment and endeavor to reduce and prevent injuries.
2. Promote common safety practices within each activity area.
3. Encourage children to follow common safety practices.
4. Stop and redirect unsafe child behavior.
Bright Beginnings Preschool will strive to:
1. Maintain a healthy classroom that promotes good child health and nutrition and is free from factors contributing to illness.
2. Encourage children to follow common health and nutrition practices.
3. Provide and use materials to ensure children’s health and cleanliness.
4. Recognize unusual behavior or symptoms of children who may be ill and provide for them.
Bright Beginnings Preschool will:
1. Foster open and ongoing communication between parents and staff.
2. Provide continuing parent education.
3. Welcome parent participation in the children’s program.
4. Respect parents’ views and goals regarding their children.
5. Encourage each family to feel part of the school.
6. Report to parents as fully as possible on their child’s developmental progress.
7. Encourage parents to contribute talents and skills for the further enrichment of the school’s program.
8. Encourage active parent support and participation in fund raising and school maintenance.
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