Director: Shona Ellis
(865) 482-2221 UCNurserySchool@gmail.com 85 Kentucky Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN
About Us
PHILOSOPHY & GOALS FOR CHILDREN
Experienced teachers provide a warm, loving and secure environment for children to grow, with opportunities to:
- Play freely and creatively within a secure environment
- Function independently according to their maturity level
- Gain a sense of competence and responsibility for their own conduct
- Be challenged and experience small successes that build self confidence
- Take pleasure & satisfaction in what they have experienced and accomplished
- Learn to identify and solve problems of group living
- Interact with peers and adults & enlarge their abilities to give and receive love
- Be respected as individuals & learn to respect themselves and other
GOALS FOR PARENTS
The nursery school affirms the importance of the family and strives to assist parents by encouraging them to understand, enjoy and accept their child as a unique individual. We share observations of the child’s development and behavior at school.
Parent participation is welcome and encouraged.
PROGRAM AND FACILITIES
TEACHERS SELECT DAILY ACTIVITIES:
- Varied art media and activities for creative expression
- Manipulatives for small motor and cognitive development
- Role playing equipment and activities
- Opportunities for discovery and experiencing science and nature
- Music and movement activities
- Reading, storytelling, group discussions
ROOMS ARRANGED FOR A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES
- Large and small blocks
- Child-sized kitchen for water and family living play, dress-up clothes and dolls
- Reading and puzzle areas
- Art center
- Small tables for working with manipulatives
MUSIC CLASS
- There is an additional period each week to give children an opportunity to use their voices and bodies musically, enjoy and learn to sing a variety of songs, and play rhythm instruments.
OUTDOOR PLAY AREAS
- Fenced playground with swings, slides, sandbox, mud kitchen and climbing equipment
- Paved area for riding toys
- Hill for running, rolling and “flying”
- Woods for exploring, discovery and pretend play
INDOOR ACTIVE PLAY AREA
- Hall and classroom used for active play, bouncing horses, indoor riding toys, balance beam, tunnel, imaginative play