• Learning is driven by the children’s interests and ideas, and children should participate in what they are learning and the direction that it is taking.
• Children should have opportunities to learn by exploring the world around them in relationship with other children through touching, moving, listening, and observing
• Children should have infinite ways to express themselves, and have access to open-ended materials
• Children are “knowledge bearers,” so rather than being the target of instruction, they should be considered apprentices who are encouraged to share their ideas, hypothesize, question, and discuss
• Children are competent, creative, full of potential, curious, ambitious, and beautiful

● The wonder-inspiring world that our students explore is the beautiful creation of God
● He gave each person the capability, gifting and desire to learn, explore, and create
● Children develop these giftings by drawing their attention to God’s creation as they learn through hands-on experiences
● Through stories, discussions, games, songs, and the teachers’ example, we teach Biblical concepts such as:
– loving our neighbour as ourselves and what that tangibly means (i.e. sharing, turn taking, kindness, using our words instead of responding physically in anger, etc.)
– each person is precious, loved, and unique in God’s sight, and therefore we should love one another and treat each other with kindness and respect