"Peace Presbyterian Children’s Center provides a program in which the Christian faith is taught
and shared by children and teachers, and that is consistent with the highest standards of early
childhood education. The Children’s Center and the Family Bible School of Peace Presbyterian
Church work together to provide an integrated Christian education program for children to play,
work, learn, and grow together using shared equipment and resources. The curriculum is based on the traditional American Nursery School approach, which uses teacherand childinitiated activities. The curriculum supports the belief that children learn best through active involvement with materials, other children, and adults in good play. Classrooms are set up in learning centers, and children are free to choose activities and move in and out of the centers. These centers allow and encourage individual differences in maturity, and challenge children to make discoveries on their own. Centers available daily on an ageappropriate level may include: art center, writing center, collage center, block center, home center, manipulative center, science center, quiet area, water and sand play center, and book center. Games, math,
special language arts activities, music and movement are also available in the classes. The teacher is responsible for setting up this learning environment, and guiding the children through ageappropriate activities as each child displays readiness. Children's interests and ideas are encouraged, and teachers provide a time and space for creative childinitiated
activities. During this time, some children will prefer to work on their own while others prefer to carry out projects as
a group. These interests allow children to explore and learn at their own pace and in ways they choose.
We seek to provide an intellectually stimulating and emotionally wholesome environment for children to explore, ask questions, move, interact, experience, play, create, and progress developmentally in freedom within limits. Therefore, our approach is focused on the whole child and how that child learns physically, socially, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually. We seek to integrate all these domains of development. "
Excerpted from the preschool's website