Creativity
     The activities in the Art Center offer an abundance of learning opportunities.
     Children gain social skills as they share and cooperate with the use of materials.
     They explore colors, textures and patterns. This develops their visual and sensory
     abilities. Children assign their own meaning to their creations. 

     Expression
     Process, not product, is the emphasis in the Art Center experiences provided for 
     children. Art provides a medium through which children express themselves.
     Individual projects enhance a child's self-concept. 

     


     Experience with blocks offers learning to think opportunities. Through building with
     blocks, children learn to think of a plan and carry out that plan. Children learn to
     solve problems, develop basic Math concepts and exercise their imaginations. 

     


     Through music, children learn to hear the difference in sounds, discover rhythm,
     increase vocabulary and experience the impact of music on their moods. 

     


     Through gross motor movements done in the Fitness Center, a child develops a sense
     of spatial awareness - how to move his/her body through space in an effective manner.
     Children learn how motor activities, good health practices and safety habits work 
     together to benefit their growing bodies. 

     


     Through participation in musical games, children begin to get a sense of belonging
     to a functioning with a group of other children. Their fine motor and gross motor
     skills are strengthened through activities such as playing rhythm band instruments,
     and marching to music. 

     


     Outdoor activities allow children to experiment and explore as an extension of the
     learning environment provided indoors. Children are stimulated to use all of their
     senses as well as to develop large muscle skills and interact with their peers. 

     


     Each child is unique and has values and habits learned through the first years at
     home. Social Studies activities provide opportunities for children to share the
     richness of these first experiences. Children learn that, while there are differences
     in people, there are many more similarities. 

     


     Activities in sensory provide the means for each child to sharpen his/her ability 
     to observe the difference and similarities in which he/she sees, hears, feels, tastes
     and smells. 

     


     Activities in Math give children a concrete, hands-on experiential approach to
     developing basic math concepts. Math is a way of finding out, a way of problem
     solving. Math activities stimulate a child's inquisitiveness, a vital factor in
     the learning process. 

     


     Through dramatic play, a child integrates what he is learning about the world around
     him and how he feels about himself in that world. Thus, the child develops a better
     understanding of himself and others. 

     


     The wide variety of materials offered with manipulative opportunities encourages
     children's growth in fine motor skills, thinking skills and socio-emotional skills.
     The first stage of using manipulative involves exploring the materials. Next, children
     begin experimenting, testing to see the variety of ways in which a toy can be used.
     These opportunities support the child in expanding his curiosity, an essential tool
     in later school success. 

     


     Language is developed through meaningful experiences: listening to and learning
     finger plays, poems and stories; seeing a print-rich environment, having many
     opportunities to talk and be listened to. 

     


     Writing Readiness activities are designed to build a child's interest and skills by
     strengthening eye-hand coordination, fine motor skills, and understanding of printed
     symbols. Children are given opportunities to experiment with writing through tracing,
     copying and drawing. 

     


     There are many skills that a child needs to develop as a basis for actually learning 
     to read. Children need many meaningful experiences with seeing the relationship
     between written and spoken words.