About the Program:
The School-Age Program provides a variety of positive learning experiences for elementary school children. The school-age years bring new and exciting challenges and rewards for children. We recognize that each child grows and develops at his or her own rate. Children display developmental landmarks at different times. We strive to meet each child’s individual needs and provide activities that are of interest to them and at their current developmental level.
The primary job of a school-age child is to develop a sense of personal competence. Children use feedback from important adults, peers and their own self-evaluation to judge their competencies. School-age children’s style of thinking is concrete, meaning that their thinking and reasoning is more logical and organized than it was during the preschool years. They can also understand and express a variety of emotions. Our staff are well aware of what these children need, and implement a program that is designed to help the school-age child be as successful as they can be!
Our goals are as follows:
We contribute to the children’s sense of self and help foster self-esteem by:
The primary job of a school-age child is to develop a sense of personal competence. Children use feedback from important adults, peers and their own self-evaluation to judge their competencies. School-age children’s style of thinking is concrete, meaning that their thinking and reasoning is more logical and organized than it was during the preschool years. They can also understand and express a variety of emotions. Our staff are well aware of what these children need, and implement a program that is designed to help the school-age child be as successful as they can be!
Our goals are as follows:
We contribute to the children’s sense of self and help foster self-esteem by:
- Offering praise and reinforcement
- Helping the children to recognize their own unique talents and abilities
- Encouraging the children to talk about their feelings
- Helping the children develop problem-solving skills to use in friendships
- Creating time for children to make choices and ask them to explain their reasons
- Encouraging children to think about how things relate to each other
- Asking children open-ended questions
- Playing more complex and thought provoking games with the children
- Engaging children in conversations about thinking ideas through to completion
- Reading with the children and encouraging the children to read to us
- Providing children with musical learning opportunities
- Helping children learn about time management
- Involving the children in establishing the norms for the classroom
- Assisting them in understand the norms and the reasons for the norms
- Allowing the children to try a variety of team and competitive sports
- Encouraging the children to set high, but achievable goals for themselves
- Celebrating the children’s accomplishments
- Helping them develop necessary social skills so they can establish positive peer relationships
- Providing numerous occasions for children to spend time with friends and talk one-on-one with a variety of adult teachers
- Asking children to talk about their experiences with school, friends and other activities
- Encouraging them to articulate their likes and dislikes, and to provide explanations
- Facilitating interactions between children to help them better understand their feelings
- Creating opportunities for verbal problem-solving and taking the time to help children develop problem-solving skills
My 8-year-old daughter went to the summer camp this year and LOVED it from the very first day. She connected with her teachers and generally had a lot of fun. As a parent, I really liked having her close by and being able to have lunch together, which we did several times.
~ Gabrielle, LLNL - IAOD
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