Walkersville United Methodist Church presents...

Weekday Nursery School

Welcome

Since 1974 the Walkersville United Methodist Church has offered this day nursery program as a service to young children in the community.  A non-profit program approved by the Maryland State Department of Education, Weekday Nursery School operates September through May, following the public school calendar for holidays and bad weather closings.

Purpose

Weekday Nursery School is a developmental program concerned with the whole child and respecting each child as an individual with special abilities and needs.  We believe that children learn best through experiences offered in a caring, accepting, safe, and consistent setting.  We offer children an opportunity to experience a small peer group situation, to respond to adults and children outside the family, to express themselves through experimenting with a variety of art media, to practice skills in following a routine, to develop large and small muscles through age-appropriate activities, to increase language and social development, to achieve a greater level of self-reliance and self-confidence, and to have fun while learning.

You will be disappointed in pre-kindergarten class if you expect your child to:

            Say his A B C’s
            Learn his 1 2 3’s
            Recite poems
            Perform and please
            Bring home daily artistries.

You will be pleased with pre-kindergarten class when you see that your child has improved attitudes in his ability to:

            Think of self and others
            Use crayons and scissors
            Explore and run
            Share his fun
            Finish what’s begun
            Put away when done
            Demand less “all or none”
            Restrict his “no”
            Let mother go
            Accept what’s so.

                         Adapted from BERTHA CAMPBELL