A great place to be a child.
The goal of Trinity United Methodist Preschool and Kindergarten (TUMPS) is that each child will find a happy, exciting place to explore and learn about self, others and the world. TUMPS helps each young child to grow in many dimensions, at one’s own rate, and in one’s own pattern. Recognizing that the needs and interests of all individuals and groups vary from place to place, time to time, and from culture to culture. Realizing that a child’s behavior is totally within the realm of individual experiences, we provide a curriculum and surroundings to encourage initiative, release of feelings, spontaneity of ideas, and creative expression. A child is an experiencing being, an integral part of the flow of events, relationships, feelings, thoughts, and things. We approach the child as a natural being ....enthusiastic, zestful, eager, sensitive, responsive, endlessly questioning and discovering. Therefore, we provide many opportunities for the child to share freely, steadily, and richly in the experiences of nature and culture all around.
We believe that through play a child learns many of the skills needed in later life. By providing experiences in arts, crafts, music, rhythms, woodworking, movement, role-playing, literature, physical fitness, cooking, and many other areas, we hope that each child will gain self-confidence, self-discipline, independence and an understanding of cooperation. If we can arouse an individual’s curiosity and self-expression, we feel we have contributed to their growth as a unique person and to the development of concepts, skills, and attitudes.
