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Discovery Club Goals for Children
  • To encourage social development by providing opportunities for sharing, taking turns, making friends, resolving conflicts, problem solving, helping others, recognition and acceptance by others, cooperative experiences and building self-esteem.
  • To encourage emotional development through use of oral language to express thoughts and feelings, through experiencing rules and limits, kindness, justice and empathy, and recognizing and accepting emotions in others.
  • To develop responsibility for one's own actions in self-help, health, safety, and interpersonal areas and to exercise independence when appropriate.
  • To facilitate intellectual development by offering many kinds of materials and experiences that enrich and support the basic concepts and skills learned in school.  Homework time and/or quiet reading time is scheduled on a regular basis.
  • To encourage physical development of large motor skills through outdoor and indoor games and activities as well as fine motor development through use of a wide variety of manipulative materials.
  • To encourage creative development by offering many kinds of materials and experiences in music, art, dramatics, literature, and oral stories.