Programs | Curriculum

Glenbrook’s curriculum is designed to realize its yearly goals. This is possible through spontaneous play in a controlled and time-structured environment. We feel that a child can feel secure only when he or she understands and trusts a set of limits. His or her imagination, curiosity, and interests need time to wander, expand and develop within these limits.

The yearly goals provide the kind of environment and varied experience that will allow children to:

1. Make a successful break from home.
2. Develop the ability to cope as successfully as possible with the daily demands of living in a group with increasing confidence in themselves, their group, their teachers, and other adults they come into contact with in their daily school environment.
3. Develop an interest and joy in learning.
4. Accept frustration as part of learning.
5. Develop creativity and imaginative powers.
6. Develop self-expression.
7. Develop self control.
8. Develop responsibility.
9. Develop control of their bodies and kinesthetic awareness by using large and small muscles.
10. Develop to the best of their abilities at their own rate.
11. Develop their own interests.
12. Develop their ability to perceive through the five senses.
13. Develop their use of language to increasingly meet their needs and express their thoughts.
14. Begin developing thought patterns to help them think clearly and problem solve.
15. Develop their listening skills and attention span.
16. Develop their resting and relaxing skills.
17. Develop their understanding and acceptance of their own and others' feelings.
18. Develop some number concepts.
19. Begin developing an appreciation for science and scientific investigation as well as knowledge about how our world works.
20. Begin developing an appreciation for other cultures and customs.
21. Develop skills that promote interaction with peers.
22. Develop an interest in the printed word.