About the Program:
Children are in a caring atmosphere with a reassuring routine and stimulating activities. The day is balanced and children learn through imaginative activities, play, teacher-facilitated activities, and repetition. We work to help children understand their emotions and develop relationships with other children rooted in empathy and concern.
Cooperative play and daily routines are introduced to facilitate learning self-help skills. Emphasis is placed on language development, music, and art making us the optimal environment for toddlers.
The philosophy of The Garden School/Chabad Gan Israel Preschool is predicated on the principle that early childhood education is the foundation for future learning. We are committed to the total education of our young children by providing developmentally appropriate cognitive and social and emotional growth curricula.
We adhere to the belief that a quality program must include a caring environment in which the emotional and intellectual needs of our students are fostered and refined in order for each child to reach his/her full potential; that a dedicated, caring, professional staff is the key to participants in acquiring knowledge that by incorporating our environment into our full learning in a positive way that our approach to learning through acquiring wisdom is an integral part of the education process and that an atmosphere of enthusiasm for learning, and affection for traditions, strong ethics and values and mutual respect between children, parents and teachers, are essential ingredients in education.
Within a developmentally appropriate program and caring environment, our goal is to address the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth of each child. Our focus is to prepare children who emerge from our schools as personally and social competent, effective learners, proficient in physical and motor abilities at their age level, feeling safe, secure and healthy, and having families that support their learning and development who help their child achieve their personal goals.