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Happy and Ready For School

Because Head Start of Lane County hopes all children are happy and ready for school, we work with them on many skills.  Some are:

  • Develop good relationships with adults and friends
  • Learn how to deal with stresses today and in the future
  • Develop a sense of trust and security
  • Identify and solve problems
  • Express thoughts and feelings appropriately
  • Think critically
  • Increase self-confidence
  • Respect the feelings and rights of others
  • Use creativity and imagination
  • Work independently and with others
  • Develop preschool academic confidence

Head Start of Lane County Goal = Enthusiastic Learners

We want children to be enthusiastic learners. For example, they should be explorers. Children should try out their ideas and to think their own thoughts.  Also, kids should be independent, self-confident, inquisitive learners. Thus, learn at your own pace and you will like to learn.

Our Main Goals for Your child

Social

Social: To help children feel comfortable in school, trust their teachers, make friends, and feel they are a part of the group.

Emotional

Emotional: To help children experience pride and self- confidence, develop independence and self-control, and have a positive attitude toward life.

Cognitive

Cognitive: To help children become learners by letting them try out their own ideas and experience success, and by helping them learn to solve problems, ask questions, and use words to describe their ideas, observations, and feelings.

Physical

Physical: To help children increase their large and small muscle skills and feel confident about what their bodies can do.