Learning Happens

Watch How I Play
if you want to know
what I'm feeling.

Listen-
not only to words.
I "say it through play,"
so listen-
and watch.
-Ruth Reardon

Learning happens everyday....
just don't ask the children...
they will tell you that
they "PLAY"!

Our Butterflies are hard at "PLAY".
Puzzles help children learn to solve problems. By trying several ways to fit a puzzle piece in place, they are learning the value of flexible thinking, and of persistence. Their fine motor skills are sharpened by manipulating the pieces and fitting them in their proper space. Putting together a puzzle helps children actively practice important skills such as inference,

deductive reasoning, and the notion that whole objects are generally made up of parts.

Reading every day with your child is the most important thing you can do to help nurture curiosity and knowledge about the world, strengthen vocabulary and comprehension skills, and model the joy of reading. You can mix it up with some oral storytelling, too (improv style) — your kids will love the invented stories and might even jump in with ideas of their own

She is reading this story, her way!
Retelling stories help build vocabulary!

These Bumblebees are sharing their stories!

"Cooperative Play"

Granny Ruth is helping a student form letter and reading her Jolly Jingles!

Head and shoulders, knees and toes!

Our Dragonflies are moving and learning their body parts!

Allowing Children to move and dance is actually helping a child develop better coordination and language skills. Studies have shown that music has a positive impact on a child's ability to learn. Not only in terms of school readiness, as well as have a positive impact on a child's sense of self-esteem and self-expression. Music and Movement exposure leads to language proficiency and spatial-temporal reasoning, which is the foundation of engineering and science.
Foster creativity using music, dance, drama—children use creative thinking skills in pretend play, enhancing their ability to think in different ways.

Our infants are looking out the window learning about the world, outside!

Having fun talking about Science and Nature...Look at those lovely leaves!

Ms. Emily takes five to rock a baby...

Caterpillars are working hard designing bricks to build their own city!

Look at that hard work!

Team work and cooperation...Everyone is working together to make a city streets!

Every city needs buildings. Watch us build this awesome tower! How high will it go?

Everyone work together to make it BIG!

Look who knocked it down! Oh no! It's falling!

While Building Blocks may not be as sophisticated as some toys you can find at the stores today, they are ideal for learning because they involve the child as a whole – the way they move their muscles, the way they discover how different objects feel in their hands, the way they think about spaces and shapes and how different blocks go together.

Look at the benefits from block play!

Social Benefits- Blocks encourage children to make friends and cooperate while playing in groups.
Physical Benefits- Blocks build dexterity and strength in children’s fingers and hands, and improve their eye-hand coordination.

Intellectual Benefits- Blocks can potentially help develop children’s vocabularies as they learn to describe sizes and shapes. They may enhance their math skills through the process of adding, subtracting or grouping blocks together.
Creative Benefits - Children receive creative stimulation by making their own designs with blocks.