At The Children’s Center, our program is designed to provide a loving, warm, nurturing, and safe environment for all children. Each child is viewed as a unique person with an individual pattern and timing of growth and development. The curriculum and teacher interactions are responsive to individual differences in ability and interest. Different levels of ability, development and learning styles are expected, accepted and used in planning activities that promote children’s self esteem and positive feelings towards learning. Our environment and classroom materials are set up to optimize each child’s learning. Social, physical, emotional, creative, language, and cognitive growth transpire through child-initiated, teacher-supported play and a variety of integrated activities and interest areas that they prepare. Children participate in whole group and individual activities that are planned, spontaneous, child initiated and teacher directed. The Children’s Center is an ongoing ministry of the Christ United Methodist Church of Lawrence and is a self-supporting, non-profit, and ecumenical adhering to the Judeao-Christian ethics and traditions with multi-ethnic awareness.