About Us - Mission Statement & Philosophy
Mission Statement
Place of Grace Early Learning Center is a faith based childcare center that offers innovative, year round, full day educational preschool as well as infant care. It is at the heart of our vision to offer a program that addresses the whole child. The mission of our childcare center is to provide a safe, loving, and encouraging environment that not only meets children's developmental and academic needs, but also their spiritual needs. As a provider of a creative learning environment, it is our mission to instill confidence, self-worth, and Christian morals in every child. The center will provide a faith based curriculum taught by certified teachers with an emphasis on creative learning and development through various activities such as: games for problem solving, reading, listening, speaking and writing to strengthen vocabulary, creative and discovery learning, literacy development, structured learning in problem solving and logical thinking. We strive to offer every child a "bright beginning for a successful future."
Philosophy of Education
Children between the ages of birth and age 2 years old experience their world through touch, taste, and sense of security. Place of Grace believes in providing those experiences in a loving, secure, safe and appropriate manner through qualified teachers.
Children between the ages of 2 years old and 6 years old learn best through play. They discover rules of sharing, getting along with others, how to resolve conflicts, how to recognize emotions, how to handle those emotions, how to help others, how to interact appropriately with others - to name just a few. They also learn to foster imagination and creativity through play. Therefore, a large portion of the day will be spent in free choice play and teacher guided play. Play is work to children.
Children over the age of 6 years old take the lessons they have learned in the early years and add to them through experimentation, exploration, creativity, and trial and error. Place of Grace will provide experiences that will foster exploring a topic to its fullest to instill a sense of curiosity in a child who never stops learning.
Place of Grace Early Learning Center will work with any and all children, meeting them at the developmental level they are at and helping them to meet their full potential.
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