CHILD-CENTERED, DISCOVERY BASED EDUCATION
Meaningful Curriculum
We are more than a daycare! We offer high quality early education and childcare. We provide a safe and loving environment that nurtures academics and spiritual development. Our students not only develop a love of learning, but they also develop a love of God!
God’s Garden utilizes a child-centered, discovery based educational approach with projects, themes, or topics that are integrated in all learning activities. A child-centered environment inspires children to learn by giving them the steering wheel to their educational path. It makes learning meaningful. Our program is developmentally appropriate and offers children an opportunity to work independently. Students learn to direct their fascinations, ask questions, and work on their own as well as part of a group.
Our Program incorporates the High/Scope curriculum, which focuses on active learning through play. The central tenet of the High/Scope curriculum is “active learning” – the belief that children learn best through active experiences with people, materials, events, and ideas rather than through direct teaching or sequenced exercises. Click here to learn more about High/Scope.
In addition, children are provided with opportunities to develop social and emotional competence, a main requirement for kindergarten readiness. Children learn emotional regulation, and build self-esteem, and self-confidence by building relationships with other children and adults at God’s Garden. Click here to learn more about Kindergarten readiness.
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CHRISTIAN LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Chapel, prayer, and lessons from the Bible
The values and beliefs of Christianity permeate God’s Garden daily in a variety of ways. Primarily, the school environment reflects the Christian faith as adults model a love of God by teaching values such as self-esteem, hope, faith, caring and sharing, forgiveness, honesty, responsibility, thankfulness, patience, love, joy, and fairness. In addition, basic Bible teachings such as creation, Noah’s Ark, the birth of Jesus, the birth of Moses, Easter, prayer, love, trust, and hope are used to support and extend the various thematic units. Prayer is said to start and end the day, as well as before snack and meal times. Finally, chapel is led bi-monthly by our director, pastor, teachers, and/or volunteers from Horizon Church. Chapel themes focus on basic virtues such as goodness, kindness, love, joy, as well as other important key concepts from the Bible including, but not limited to, the birth of Jesus, Easter, Creation, etc. These concepts are aligned with the Bible, key elements of High Quality Early Childhood Education, and God’s Garden Core Values.
