Designed to help children realize their potential

This group is supervised in a 1 Educator to 8 children ratio. Children play, create, invent, and imagine through character role play and storytelling. Music or drama become vehicles of expression. This play is enhanced through building materials, items for "messy" play, dress-up items, outdoor environments, and a variety of other arts and crafts materials. Early literacy is another integral element - reading, board games, science experiments, and math activities are all explored daily. Children engage in exploration by asking questions, exploring the world through their senses—touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing—and through whole-body experiences including fine motor, gross motor, and cognitive activities. They participate with others, observe and listen, share ideas, negotiate for understanding or turns, and persist through challenges. As they engage in various physical activities both indoors and outdoors, children develop their bodily awareness, control, strength, agility, and large motor coordination. They have ample opportunities to enhance their fine motor skills, expand their physical capabilities, and rejuvenate their energy in outdoor settings. Educators organize materials to ensure they are visible and accessible to children, presenting them in ways that spark curiosity and invite manipulation. This approach encourages thinking, imagination, creativity, playful exploration, problem-solving, and dynamic play.

Examples of activities: -character role play and storytelling. -Music or drama become vehicles of expression enhanced through building materials, items for messy play, dress-up items, outdoor environments, and a variety of other arts and crafts materials. -Emotional Literacy through:
a) Role Play different emotions,
b) Emotion pictures: Discuss pictures of different emotions,
c) Validate & Educate about emotions: Help children understand their emotions,
d) Sing songs about emotions (e.g., “If you’re happy and you know it”),
e) Books: Discuss emotions of characters,
f) Page turner: Nominate a child to turn pages after discussing details,
g) Interaction time: Ask children questions while reading, h) Attention to words on the page, i) Label personal spaces for each child. -Early literacy- reading, board games, science experiments, and math activities explored daily. Children engage in exploration by asking questions, exploring the world through their senses—touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing—and through whole-body experiences including fine motor, gross motor, and cognitive activities. -Develop Social skills as they participate with others, observe and listen, share ideas, negotiate for understanding or turns, and persist through challenges. Social Interactions with:
a)Small group activities encourage children to play together in games.
b)Visuals are used to help children understand turn-taking.
c)Greetings: Children are encouraged to say “hello” and respond to “How are you?” at the start of each day, and say “see you tomorrow” at the end of each day. -With various physical activities both indoors and outdoors, children develop their bodily awareness, control, strength, agility, and large motor coordination. Ample opportunities to enhance fine motor skills, expand their physical capabilities, and rejuvenate their energy in outdoor settings.
Fine Motor examples:
a) Craft activities encourage cutting, pasting, and sticking,
b) Storage: Use ziplock bags or containers to practice fine motor skills,
c) Play doh: Use playdough to increase finger strength. Physical Skills examples:
a) Hopscotch and other games for hopping and task/skill practice,
b) Age-appropriate obstacle courses develop endurance.
c) Ball skills: Increase experience and confidence in ball skills. -This group is working towards school readiness as well. -Children learn to take responsibility for personal care as they grow independence in self-care routines and learn about individual differences in self-care practices, helping others with personal care.