Pre-Kindergarten promotes a love of school while nurturing social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development. The teachers facilitate skills in self-regulation, self-initiation, and independence within a framework of a well-defined program. Children are encouraged to explore, to discover, and to think about the world around them. Learning experiences mainly focus on the process, while literacy and mathematical components of the program are integrated formally and informally throughout the morning. Functional and meaningful school experiences promote skills in creative thinking, problem solving and communication.