Programs

At Garfield Avenue Children’s Circle we provide a creative, developmental program in a caring and safe environment. We pride ourselves on our flexible, play-based program designed to meet individual family needs.

Our aim at Circle is to promote all facets of child-development: emotional, social, physical and cognitive. To facilitate these aspects of a child’s growth and learning, we have a program balanced in both teacher and child directed and free-play activities. Our hope is to foster and enrich a positive self-image, the ability to think and reason, good communication skills and competence in physical co-ordination. Independence is carefully nurtured in the child and each individual is encouraged to explore all areas of creative and cognitive play.

The program is designed to meet the needs of each child. Our day is divided into times when the child is in some guided activities. At this time more focus is placed on the child’s individual developmental stage. At group time, the child will spend time with the teacher and his/her peer group, thus encouraging warm relationships and the fostering of emotional growth with both adults and other children.

Children will be expected to respect the basic rights of others and be made aware of what are acceptable and unacceptable behaviours. They are also helped to recognize, deal with, and express emotions positively. In a warm and supportive environment the children will be able to explore their surroundings, learn from new experiences and gain the confidence to handle many different situations.

A number of different activities are geared to the level of each age group. Cognitive circles, art, books, games, music, science and cooking are just some of these activities. We post program sheets and daily schedules on the hallway bulletin board for parents to view.