Play to Learn
In our hands-on learning centers, your child will be practicing many skills to become successful life-long learners.
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 words
Art Center
· Represent feelings and ideas through art
· Describe and respond to won 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 number 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
· Work cooperatively with peers
· Use language to communicate
· Develop social skills
· Recreate social roles that they see 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 on or more senses to observe the physical world, 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
