Play to Learn
In our hands-on learning centers, your child will practice many skills to become successful life-long learners, including:
Literacy Center
Art Center
Writing Center
Math Center
Reading/Listening Center
Dramatic Play Center
Block/Construction Center
Science/Sensory Center
In our hands-on learning centers, your child will practice many skills to become successful life-long learners, including:
Literacy Center
- Use expanded vocabulary
- Respond to text
- Develop a sense of story
- Read environmental print and symbols
- Identify alphabet letters
- Repeat rhymes, songs, poems, plays
- Participate in word games
- Discriminate sounds in word
Art Center
- Represent feelings and ideas through art
- Describe and respond to their own creative work or the work of others
- Use creative arts as an avenue for self-expression
- Use various materials and mediums to create
- Use fine motor skills with purpose and coordination
Writing Center
- Experiment with writing tools and materials
- Use scribbles, shapes, pictures and letters to write
- Tell others about intended meaning of drawing or writing
- Use a variety of resources to facilitate writing
Math Center
- Use numbers to show quantity
- Use language to represent number of objects
- Solve problems using numbers
- Use numerical representation (write numerals, match numeral with quantity)
- Investigate positions and location
- Explore shapes in the environment
- Recognize, extend, duplicate and create patterns
- Make comparisons
- Use measurement
- Collect information and analyze data
Reading/Listening Center
- Listen responsively to books and stories
- Exhibit book handling skills
- Pretend to read easy or predictable books
- Comprehend and respond to text
- Understand that reading progresses from left to right and top to bottom
Dramatic Play Center
- Work cooperatively with peers
- Use language to communicate
- Develop social skills
- Recreate social roles that are seen in everyday life
Block/Construction Center
- Exhibit number and math concepts
- Develop understanding of spatial relationships
- Discriminate between shape and size
- Learn cause and effect
- Use creativity and cooperation with peers to build
Science/Sensory Center
- Use of senses to observe the physical works, natural world and earth/space
- Experiment with simple tools
- Experiment with objects and materials to gather information and observe reactions
- Make predictions
- Ask questions
- Make observations about changes in the environment