Community Nursery School uses the Connecticut State Department of Education Preschool Curriculum Framework to assess the developmental progress of our students. For a complete document please go to: www.state.ct.us/sde/deps/early/frmwrkbench.pdf

Program Goals
Educational experiences will assure that by the end of preschool, children will:

• Demonstrate sense of self as a learner
• Demonstrate a sense of responsibility to oneself and others
• Demonstrate effective functioning, individually and as a member of a group
• Demonstrate control, balance, strength, and coordination in gross motor tasks
• Demonstrate coordination and strength in fine motor skills
• Participate in healthy physical activity
• Practice appropriate eating habits, hygiene, and self-help skills
• Demonstrate the ability to think, reason , and remember to engage in problem solving
• Use language to communicate, convey, and interpret meaning
• Establish social contracts as they begin to understand that physical and social world
• Use different art forms as a vehicle for creative expressions and representation
• Develop an appreciation of the arts