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Social/Emotional Skills
We
believe that a childs intellectual and creative potential
can only develop fully if their social and emotional capacities
are properly nourished. If a child can learn to finish what
he/she starts without quitting, if they are honest with others
and with themselves as well, if they treat others with respect,
if they acquire self-control, and if they work and play
cooperatively with others, they will be able to act for, rather
then against, their own best interest. Our curricula is designed
throughout to engage and nurture these capacities they are
the foundation on which healthy social, intellectual and creative
expression are founded.
Creative Arts Development
Whether its making up simple rhymes or acting in a
play, or singing or dancing, or drawing or painting or molding or
cooking - children love to create, with their minds, their
voices, their bodies, or their hands and eyes in unison
whether its a toddler fingerpainting to music or a
kindergartener painting with watercolors or a school-ager
designing a cardboard mobile to hang from their
ceiling.
By the time MCC children are in preschool and kindergarten they have learned to work together to create, with their teachers guidance, a simple play or skit or dance or song. They may make props or costumes or learn lines and act or sing, or try to sing in harmony with others indoors in winter outdoors in spring, summer and fall.
We value the arts for the pleasure they give others and the pleasure they give to the children who express themselves through them.
Intellectual Development
Our
curricula involve children actively in problem solving. Math,
reading, writing and oral language give them the tools that allow
them to think in an orderly fashion. Our strong emphasis on the
MCC natural science curriculum feeds and compliments a
childs natural sense of wonder and curiosity with a real
understanding of how nature works.
Physical Development
If
you explore our outdoor or indoor facilities you will appreciate
just how much value we place
on each childs physical development. These
spaces were designed, not only for the sheer pleasure of running
or tumbling or swimming or climbing, but also to teach children
how to control their bodies through swimming, tumbling, climbing
or playing group and team games. Even our infant room is designed
to stimulate and safely support infants physical
development and control. All of this contributes to
childrens sense of comfort with and confidence in their
bodies.