Learning Center for Exploration

Centers for All Ages

Art Center ...designed to enjoy creative arts, craft and construction activities based on the curriculum.

Computer Center (3y-Kindergarten only)...individually equipped with a state-of-the-art computer that includes CD-ROM. Children are able to take advantage of computer programs that are designed to accompany reading, math, science, and social studies.

Dramatic Play Area...encourages social development. Children learn to barter, to share, and to solve problems that deal with the feelings of others. Language skills and creativity are fostered as children develop a life situation that leads to language usage and story development. Literature also becomes meaningful to children as their stories are acted out in dramatic play.

Blocks Center...applies math and science through an interaction of structure and balance. Sizes and spatial relationships are explored. As a result, the more abstract math of the future will make more sense and a concrete frame of reference will be established here.

Science Center...allows opportunities for observation, experimentation, and problem solving to occur.

Library Center...is a peaceful, comfortable place where children can stretch out with a good book and travel the world through its pages. Literacy is encouraged as the children explore the printed word. A love for books and reading, as well as respect for books and reading materials is fostered here. We also make class books and place them in our library so that the children may read their own words.

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