The teachers will communicate closely with the child's parents to find out the best ways in which to meet the child's individual needs. Through our planned activities, the children's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional needs will be met.

The children will be supervised at all times through one on one interaction, small group, large group, and observation. Their program activities will include dramatic play, language development, science sensory, blocks, manipulative, music, art, math, puzzles, and fine and large muscle development.

Planning occurs on a yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily basis. Curriculum units are developed around weekly themes. Daily and weekly lesson plans are posted on each room's parent board. On a weekly basis, each Head Teacher will send home lesson plans and an update letter. Children are encouraged to be actively involved in the learning process.

Daily activities are planned to include a balance of indoor and outdoor, quiet and active, large muscle and small muscle, individual, small and large group, child initiated and staff initiated play. Alternative outdoor and indoor play areas include a fenced in area, community park in adjacent lot, and New Visions School's gym.

Turnquist Child Care also provides a program called Boost Up. Boost up is a program of exercises to improve eye-hand coordination and visual motor integration. The children creep and crawl to duplicate developmental movements that stimulate brain organization in areas of coordination, automatic movement, and convergence. We use pictures in the creep track to stimulate visual development, recognition, and discrimination. The children hang from a bar or go hand over hand across a horizontal ladder to increase lung capacity and strengthen arm and hand muscles. The children also roll or somersault, twirl, walk on a balance beam, and jump on the trampoline to stimulate the vestibular system which help with balance. The Toddler, Preschool, Prekindergarten, and Kindergarten classes do these activities once a day for twenty to thirty minutes.

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