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Now Offering: FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN!!!
Spaces are limited to allow for smaller class size & individual attention
In addition to the comprehensive curriculum, The Goddard School® provides a variety of teacher resources to enhance each child’s learning experience. Enriching subjects, such as Art History and Sign Language, are explored through age-appropriate activities to further prepare children for a lifelong love of learning™.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Scholastic’s Building Language for Literacy™ program
•Equips young children with critical language & literacy skills, and experiences, they need to build the foundation for success in reading.
•It is built upon children’s home and community experiences to create meaningful connections.
•Photographic PlaceBooks™ puppets, music, and poetry feature language-loving characters who focus on the fundamentals of literacy, including oral language, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and concepts in print.
FITNESS AND NUTRITION
B.A.S.E Fitness
The Goddard fitness program, developed by SPARK, has been specifically designed and equipped for preschool children with four curricular goals that address their physical fitness:
•B - Balance
•A - Agility
•S - Strength
•E -Endurance
Yoga
Teachers use the Yoga School guidelines which incorporate nature, animals, and a little imagination to help young learners gain improvements in focus, balance, creativity, flexibility, and body awareness & control to enhance cross-curricular learning through:
•Motor skills
•Science
•Math
•Language arts
•Social skills
Nutrition
Goddard’s fitness program also incorporates a nutrition component by teaching children how to make healthy food choices. Children learn to:
•Identify various foods
•Investigate food ethnicity
•Observe the physical changes that can take place in foods during preparation and digestion
MANNERS
Goddard Guide to Getting Along™
The innovative Goddard Guide to Getting Along™ program fosters acquisition of four essential skills:
•Friendship
•Compassion
•Cooperation
•Kindness
A variety of activities are incorporated that:
•Inspire thoughtful discussion
•Provide practice on an individual and group level
•Include class-wide, school-wide, and community-wide opportunities for skill building at an age-appropriate level, even as young as 18 months.
Lessons on Stranger Danger are also covered and teach children to recognize unsafe situations, react and respond appropriately, and differentiate between situations in which personal safety is more important than using good manners.
ART HISTORY
Children will:
•Learn about the most influential artists throughout history
•Take a journey through time and geography, from cave art to modern art.
•Use age-appropriate art projects, games, and activities to gain exposure to artists and the contributions their art has made to culture and society.
MUSIC APPRECIATION
Studies have repeatedly shown that learning to process music in a meaningful way enhances the development of cognitive capacities for math, reading, and science in young children.
The Music Preludes program, by Musically Yours, Inc.
•Allows children to develop music literacy through participation in innovative, fun activities.
•The goal of the program is to enrich children's cognitive, social, and physical development through fun and interesting learning experiences focused on the achievement of music literacy and the stimulation of self-expression, creativity, and exploration.
SECOND LANGUAGES
Spanish
The Explorer program introduces children to the Spanish language and culture. With hundreds of games, songs, and activities, the program provides hours of learning and fun. Numerous studies have concluded that foreign language learning is extremely beneficial for children. In fact, foreign language study has been shown to make talking and listening more interesting in both languages.
Sign Language
The sign language program, developed by Time to Sign, Inc.®, introduces children to American Sign Language, a manual form of communication where sign mimics experiences with ideas or objects. Children, even infants, learn to sign through the use of songs, games, stories, and play. Recent findings indicate that a bilingual approach with hearing children enhances literacy skills and activates brain growth and development. Sign has also been shown to reduce conflict, facilitate an understanding of human emotions, and increase children’s confidence and self-esteem.
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