North Penn YMCA Pennview Christian School
Preschool in Franconia, PA 18924
Part Time / Full Time: Full Time Part Time
Children learn best by doing and by being curious about how things work. Young children need materials that will spark their interests allow them to experiment and to draw their own conclusions. Our students make their own discoveries and learn important skills when they manipulate and experiment with all different types of materials. We desire to have our youngest students learn without experiencing undue stress to succeed.
Our curriculum is in alignment with the Pennsylvania Department of Education Early Learning Standards. Key learning areas include: approaches to learning creative arts language and literacy science and social studies.
- Child Ages:
- 3 years - 14 years
- Rates:
- $$
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
- Vouchers:
- This provider accepts vouchers
- Special Needs:
- Administer Medication Asthma Speech/Language Delay Special Diet
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- 8:25 AM to 3:10 PM
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Educators in Mennonite schools use life experiences and sound educational principles old and new that are in harmony with Scriptures. These principles establish that humans are born with a need to make sense of the world and to communicate with others. All of life is a classroom; persons learn in and out of school and throughout their lives. The uniquely human abilities to acquire a language to pose and solve problems and to imagine and create are God-given gifts. Before starting school children have already accomplished enormously complex tasks such as motor social and language skills. Young childrens accomplishments reveal that learning is natural social constructive purposeful experimental creative and playful. All learning and human performance are in varying degrees physical mental social and spiritual. Separation of mind from heart or from body dividing intellectual from non-intellectual is false and misleading. All talents and knowledge required for living purposefully as Gods people are to be valued equally.
The classroom is a community of learners whose varied gifts and needs are best nurtured through active participation and collaboration. Each teacher and students prior knowledge experience and interests become resources available to the whole group. Overemphasis on competition and comparison of persons should be avoided. Participatory learning peer tutoring and cooperative group activities provide opportunities for students to learn from each other as well as from the teacher and to learn the value of differences. Students and teachers alike benefit from use of the storytelling and questioning methods of Jesus the Master Teacher. In an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect learners explore problems and questions select from a wide range of resources learn new concepts and skills and are permitted to take risks to try new ideas and to make mistakes. Students are thus prepared for life and service in an information age which requires competence in using available resources in team problem-solving and decision-making with women and men of differing backgrounds experiences and skills.
