Children in the Program for Young Children are able to respond to and interpret their real and imagined world through many expressive languages, developing their creativity and critical thinking skills.

The integration of many expressive language experiences enriches, deepens, and extends every child's thinking, learning, and communicating.They:

• Learn to see themselves as a communicator, reader, writer, speaker, and listener;
• Learn to use the conventions of written English to communicate thoughts, opinions, feelings, and ideas;
• Learn to appreciate and value the infinite ways of expressing, including, but not limited to, stories, poetry, literature, dance, technology, music, visual arts, puppetry, and drama; and
• Learn to imagine, visualize, create, and solve problems through the expressive arts.
  

Classroom experiences are integrated and focused to provide students with many opportunities to speak, listen, read, write, and express ideas in a multitude of ways. Teachers work with individual students, small groups, and larger classroom groups to help children identify the function of print and symbols to convey ideas and express thoughts in a concrete, permanent form.A literacy-rich environment fosters an understanding of and love for books at all ages.