social bugs

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SOCIAL COMPETENCE is developed through social learning.  SOCIAL SKILLS are vital in allowing a child to have and maintain positive interactions with others and develop sustaining friendships. 

Social interactions include spoken language and nonverbal communication, such as gestures and facial expressions.  Social learning involves learning how to think in social situations and then using the skills effectively when communicating with others.

AT SOCIAL BUGS, enrolled preschoolers will participate in exciting activities that foster social and emotional awareness to develop foundational social competencies. With their peers, preschoolers will build social concepts to include whole body listening, making conversation, cooperating in play with peers, making predictions about others intentions, greeting others, making and maintaining friendships, understanding expected social behaviors, turn taking and negotiating, and understand and using nonverbal behaviors.  Preschoolers will have the opportunity to describe, demonstrate, practice, and promote their social communication skills through books, songs, games, play, turn taking, role playing, table-top activities, and gross and fine-motor activities.