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Weekday Early Education Ministry

Our Purpose:

The purpose of our program is twofold:

1. To provide a nurturing Christian environment in which a young child’s personal development – emotional, social, physical, intellectual and spiritual.
2. To help each child develop healthy self-esteem and positive feelings toward playing and learning.

These goals are archived through a varied curriculum which includes creative play, arts and crafts, music participation, nature studies, in-house enrichment, playground interaction, special birthday and holiday celebrations, video viewing, a welcome Open House, and a year-end picnic for all registered in our partnership.

In a loving spirit, the Ardmore Baptist Church family, together with the WEE staff and committee will strive to meet these goals to stimulate and facilitate the growth and development of each young child enrolled.

The philosophy guiding our program is based on several principles:

1. Each child is viewed as a unique person of inestimable worth and value, with an individual pattern and timing of growth and development.
2. Developmental appropriateness is essential to successful learning. Programs are both age appropriate and individually appropriate; that is, the program is designed for the age group served and implemented with attention to the needs and differences of the individual child.
3. The curriculum and teachers’ interaction are based on the recognition that all areas – physical, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – of a child’s development are related.
4. Young children learn by doing. Knowledge is not something that is given to children as though they were empty vessels to be filled. Children acquire knowledge about the worlds in which they live through playful interaction with objects and people.
5. Teachers are seen as guides or facilitators. They prepare the environment so that it provides stimulating, challenging materials and activities for children.

1. To help develop a good self image.
2. To give the child a thirst for knowledge.
3. To help the child get a good start toward reaching his or her potential.
4. To encourage physical development of large and small muscles.
5. To provide stimulating experiences which encourage the child to think and analyze problems and arrive a possible solutions.
6. To encourage creative expression through music and art.
7. To stimulate language development.
8. To encourage the child to express himself/herself through material, movement and language.
9. To encourage independence.
10. To give basic experience necessary for effective social living.
11. To develop the behavior necessary for effective social living.
12. To encourage the child to develop a positive attitude toward school and learning.

9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon
Two-day, Three-day and Five-day classes
Extended Care/Lunch Bunch – Noon - 1:00 PM