Our Goals...
Welcome to Kid’s Country! It is our goal to provide your child with the best opportunities to become a successful learner.
To do so, we are planning classroom activities and experiences that will allow the children to express they many ways in which they are smart. This dynamic approach is based on the theory of Multiple Intelligences, developed by Dr. Howard Gardner, a psychologist at Harvard University.
Dr. Gardner has identified the following eight intelligences:
- Linguistic (Word Smart)
- Musical(Music Smart)
- Logical-Mathematical (Number Smart)
- Naturalist (Nature Smart)
- Spatial (Picture Smart)
- Interpersonal (People Smart)
- Bodily-Kinesthetic (Body Smart)
What this means is that in our classroom, your child will learn not only through reading, writing, and math but also through music, art, building, moving, engaging in outdoor learning experiences, interacting with other children, thinking and reflecting.
Since children exhibit these various ways of learning at different levels of ability, we will try to match learning experiences with their various ways of “being smart”.
Enrichmnet Tips...
Extend your child's learning opportunities through extension activities.
To strengthen our school-home connection and to help your child expand his or her learning, the following are a few examples of things you can do at home:
- Read to your child and let your child read to you.
- Encourage your child to write stories, poems and books.
- Play logic, card and board games such as Crazy Eights, Old Maid, Go Fish, Dominoes, Bingo and Concentration.
- Visit science museums, children’s museums, hobby stores, electronic, exhibits and so on…
- Provide an area where your child can design and construct creations.
- Have available a variety of art and craft materials.
- Provide old throw away mechanical objects for your child to examine, take apart or reassemble.
- Play a variety of music from the radio, records, tapes and CD's.
- Encourage your child to make up songs, raps and chants.
- Plant a garden with your child.
- Go on walks around the neighborhood and other fun places.
- Encourage your child to participate in group activities.
- Encourage your child to express his or her feelings.
- Encourage your child to write in a personal journal daily.
- Provide a quiet space in the home for your child to think and reflect.