Our classroom is arranged in distinct centers or areas, designed to inspire play and learning in our students.
Sand and Water Table:
Experience textures and enlivens the touch sense and enhances fine motor skills as children pour from funnel to cup to basin, and aids in the understanding of gravity and volume displacement.
Dramatic Play:
Dramatic play is where children accept and assign roles, and then act them out. They pretend to be someone different from themselves, and dramatize situations and actions to go along with the roles they have chosen. Dramatic play is an integral part of the developmental learning process by allowing children to develop skills in such areas as abstract thinking, literacy, math, and social studies.
Manipulatives and Small Blocks:
Small play items such as blocks, bristle blocks, counting cubes, magnets, dominoes, Duplo blocks that allow student to develop fine motor skills, math skills, and pattern recognition.
Big Blocks:
Gross motor skills, social skills,
Art:
Creative expression, support for math and literacy activities, social emotional growth, fine motor skills.
Natural World/Science:
Teaches students about plants and animals by using pictures and small plastic toys and live animals, (finches!). Science projects and "experiments" are done here such as weather, simple machines, (lever, pulley, inclined plan and gears), rocks (geology) and much more.
Technology:
This is where we keep our computers and IPads. Students use apps for literacy, math, art and video recording and editing.
Writing:
We keep pencils, writing pads, both lined and unlined, blank picture books, as well as plastic letter shapes to trace.
Circle Time Carpet:
Morning meeting, read alouds, group instruction, puppet shows.
Tree:
See philosophy page.
Sand and Water Table:
Experience textures and enlivens the touch sense and enhances fine motor skills as children pour from funnel to cup to basin, and aids in the understanding of gravity and volume displacement.
Dramatic Play:
Dramatic play is where children accept and assign roles, and then act them out. They pretend to be someone different from themselves, and dramatize situations and actions to go along with the roles they have chosen. Dramatic play is an integral part of the developmental learning process by allowing children to develop skills in such areas as abstract thinking, literacy, math, and social studies.
Manipulatives and Small Blocks:
Small play items such as blocks, bristle blocks, counting cubes, magnets, dominoes, Duplo blocks that allow student to develop fine motor skills, math skills, and pattern recognition.
Big Blocks:
Gross motor skills, social skills,
Art:
Creative expression, support for math and literacy activities, social emotional growth, fine motor skills.
Natural World/Science:
Teaches students about plants and animals by using pictures and small plastic toys and live animals, (finches!). Science projects and "experiments" are done here such as weather, simple machines, (lever, pulley, inclined plan and gears), rocks (geology) and much more.
Technology:
This is where we keep our computers and IPads. Students use apps for literacy, math, art and video recording and editing.
Writing:
We keep pencils, writing pads, both lined and unlined, blank picture books, as well as plastic letter shapes to trace.
Circle Time Carpet:
Morning meeting, read alouds, group instruction, puppet shows.
Tree:
See philosophy page.
