Create and Discover
Sensory Tables
Sensory Tables
- Encourages exploration through the five senses
- Practices fine motor skills
- Stimulates vocabulary and language skills
- Develops hand/eye coordination
- Introduces math concepts
- Provides experience with different tactile materials
Science Area
Science Area
- Encourages children to ask questions
- Helps children use their senses for investigation
- Provides opportunities for discovering
- Develops problem solving skills
- Develops nurturance and responsibility
- Encourages math readiness skills
Cooking Area
Cooking Area
- Provides opportunities to use all the senses
- Teaches about food and nutrition
- Develops small muscle coordination
- Stimulates language and concept development
- Helps children learn to follow directions
- Encourages math and reading readiness skills
Arts and Crafts
Arts and Crafts
- Encourages exploration in a variety of media
- Develops art enjoyment and appreciation
- Encourages exploration with materials/colors
- Develops a sense of personal accomplishment
- Develops creativity and imagination
Imaginative Play
Let's Pretend Area
Let's Pretend Area
- Play interactions for consolidating experiences
- Provides opportunities to express a range of feelings
- Develops discourse skills
- Develops social skills
- Develops a sense of belonging in the world
- Develops language skills
- Fosters creativity
Block Building Area
Block Building Area
- Encourages creativity
- Promotes cooperation
- Develops numerical concepts
- Improves small muscle development
- Promotes language/social interactions
- Works on spatial relations and three dimension concepts
Dress-Up Area
Dress-Up Area
- Provides for practice in role playing/social interaction
- Fosters a sense of belonging in the world
- Provides for practice in dressing and undressing
- Encourages creativity
- Develops cooperation/conflict resolution
- Promotes expression of emotions / ideas
Move and Grow
Gross Motor Activity Area
Gross Motor Activity Area
- Provides an outlet for energy
- Develops large muscle skills
- Provides opportunities for group play
Music Area
Music Area
- Develops an appreciation for music
- Improves coordination and rhythm
- Develops listening skills
- Provides opportunities for self expression
Circle Activity Area
Circle Activity Area
- Provides a place for opening and closing activities
- Develops language and listening skills
- Provides opportunities for participating in large group activities
Outdoor Area
Sand, Water, Garden Area, Nature Walks
Sand, Water, Garden Area, Nature Walks
- Teaches children to explore natural materials
- Teaches about growing things
- Develops cooperation
- Provides opportunities to discover the joy of nurturing nature
Climbing Area
Climbing Area
- Develops balance and coordination
- Encourages cooperative play
- Develops spatial concepts
- Encourages imaginative play
- Develops large muscles
Wheel Toy Area
Wheel Toy Area
- Develops balance and coordination
- Encourages cooperative play
- Develops spatial concepts
- Encourages imaginative play
- Develops large muscles
Play and Learn
Reading and Writing Readiness
Reading and Writing Readiness
- Develops visual skills related to reading
- Fosters independent work and completion of tasks
- Develops listening, recalling and predicting skills
- Develops an appreciation for stories and pictures
- Increases general knowledge
- Develops imagination
- Encourages creation of original stories
- Develops small motor skills
Language and Concept Development
Language and Concept Development
- Increases vocabulary
- Teaches classification skills
- Teaches about patterns and relationships
- Develops problem solving skills
Number Readiness
Number Readiness
- Develops concepts of numbers and sets that prepare the child for learning mathematics
- Fosters discrimination of shape, size, and weight
- Introduces basic numerical concepts relating to measurement and equality