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Pleasantville Public School’s
Preschool Program
GOALS
The major goal of the preschool program is to create a positive learning environment that nurtures each child's growth, independence and a love of learning that creates a foundation for success in school and in their future lives.
Curriculum Overview
All preschool classrooms implement a curriculum based on Tools of the Mind Project. The Tools of the Mind Project consists of strategies created to support children's development created to support children's development in understanding their world as well as skills essential to literacy development. Play is the central teaching tool, within a learning environment that focuses on giving children the tools they need that will lead to the development of higher mental functions. The program emphasizes that young children must build strong speaking and social skills and be able to exercise emotional and behavioral control (self-regulation) before they can learn to read.
Tools of the Mind is a research based Early Childhood program that builds strong foundations for academic success in preschool children by promoting their intentional self-regulated learning. In the Tools of the Mind classroom the teachers assist children in gaining control of their social, emotional, and cognitive behaviors, including early literacy and mathematics skills.
