Letter Play

Playing with letters is a great way to help children expand their emergent literacy development. Check out our work:

Math Play

Playing with numbers, counting physical items, sorting, classifying objects, creating patterns all help children build their early math skills. Check out our work:

Science Play

Making observations, predictions, and experimenting all help build a foundation for early science skills. Check out our work:

Sensory Play

"Young children must be able to coordinate 7 senses to learn about their world and function effectively." by Dr. Christy Isbell. We incorporate many opportunities for children to use the 7 senses (vision, auditory, tactile, taste, smell, vestibular (movement & balance), and proprioception (body position/awareness)). Check out our work:

Fine Motor Play

Before a child can write, he needs to have the fine motor strength and muscle coordination in his fingers and hands. We spend time every day working on that muscle development and coordination. Check out our work:

Mat Man Play

As part of our handwriting readiness, we have fun with Mat Man. Mat Man activities help children learn about positional concepts (top, bottom, middle, side, etc.), body awareness, and become familiar with the wood pieces (big line, little line, big curve, little curve.) Check out our work:

Handwriting Readiness Play

As part of our handwriting readiness, we use the Handwriting WIthout Tears curriculum (a.k.a. Learning Without Tears). The children play with different manipulatives as they learn about letters, letter sounds, and letter formation. Check out our work:

Creative Art Play

Allowing children to freely create with different media and materials is such an important part of their development, yet it is often minimized to focus on "academics". We help children become creative problem-solvers - a vital life skill - when we let them strengthen their imagination and learn to express themselves. Check out our work:

Block Play

"Knowledge is constructed, not transferred." by Peter Senge

The Block Center is where children are allowed to think, plan, create, experiment, try-fail-and try again without much intervention from adults/teachers. Blocks let children explore based on the way they naturally think and learn - which is unique to the child.  Check out our work: