• Provide safe, healthy, secure, welcoming environment away from home.
• Provide a welcoming atmosphere of joy and warmth for the child.
• Nurture and become a significant, consistent adult in child’s life.
• Create an environment that encourages curiosity and exploration.
• Provide experiences to increase child’s sense of competence.
• Provide experiences to develop qualities of responsibility, initiative.

Cognitive Growth

• Provide activities to promote language development.
• Provide activities to promote sequencing skills.
• Provide opportunities to learn expressive language through singing songs or saying fingerplays, conversation, role playing, pretend and dramatic play, peer interaction, and circle time.
• Provide activities to promote visual discrimination with colors and matching colors, simple objects or pictures.
• Invite interest in books and reading by reading, encouraging children to hold and explore books, and to “read” using pictures and memory.
• Provide opportunities to express self through music, art, movement.
• Provide opportunities to begin learning Spanish.

Social Growth

• Encourage beginning cooperative play, sharing, and taking turns.
• Encourage independence (leaves parent comfortably).
• Encourage sharing of adults with other children.
• Encourage responsibility for maintaining classroom environment.
• Encourage respect for authority, property, and the rights of others.

Physical Growth

• Provide activities to promote large muscle development.
• Provide activities to promote small muscle development and eye-hand.
• Demonstrate and encourage good habits of health and safety.

Spiritual Growth

• Encourage and model showing love for one another and being a friend.
• Encourage and model consciousness of God, exploration of God’s world.
• Introduce rituals of thankfulness and concern.