- Modelling of good language and listening skills
- Providing opportunities for children to develop receptive and expressive language skills
- Providing activities that encourage communication
- A flexible daily program that responds to the needs and interests of the children,
- Development of curiosity, reasoning and problem-solving skills,
- Development of skills such as classifying, ordering, determining direction and perceiving spatial relationships,
- Activities such as art, music, movement, imaginative play, story-telling and construction, and
- Helping children develop a positive self-concept and an accurate perception of self
- Helping children express positive and negative feelings in appropriate ways
- Providing a comfortable atmosphere in which children feel proud of their cultural heritage and cultural sharing is encouraged
- Providing an environment for children to work independently and to share and work cooperatively in small groups
- Helping children appreciate differences and respect the personal feelings and property of others
- Providing experiences that facilitate a child's feeling of belonging to family, community and the world at large
- Indoor and outdoor activities that encourage the development of large and small muscle skills appropriate to each child's level of development
- Activities that promote the development of self-help skills
- Activities that encourage good health and safety habits