Play & Learn Preschool

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"PLAYING = LEARNING," from the book, Einstein Never Used flash Cards: How Our children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less.

The authors, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D. and Diane Eyer, Ph. D., write how decades of research have brought scientists and child development experts to the clear conclusion that young children learn best through play. They discuss how early regimented learning tends to promote a decrease in creativity and motivation to learn in later years and that memorizing letters and numbers, unrelated to their meaning and to children's interest, does not promote long-term benefits.
PLAY& LEARN PRESCHOOL is a small preschool with low teacher-child ratio that provides individualized, natural learning experiences.
PLAY & LEARN PRESCHOOL offers your child a learning experience based on the philosophy of Jean Piaget, the great Swiss scholar whose ideas form the foundation of early childhood psychology.
PLAY & LEARN PRESCHOOL has an emergent curriculum based on High Scope research and practical application of Piaget's philosophy of learning through play. Emergent curriculum means that subject areas emerge from children's interests and are taught through hands on experiences. Children learn through doing, experimenting, discovering and exploring, rather than memorizing isolated facts or information.
Qualified and experienced teachers facilitate children's learning by interacting with children during teacher directed learning experiences, and during free play indoors, and outdoors.
Learning centers encourage children to learn math concepts such as space, shapes, balance, size, and how things fit together, through building with blocks, manipulatives, and puzzles.
Children learn about colors by experimenting with paints, crayons, markers, water colors and colored paper.
Counting is introduced in many ways, including placing the correct number of chairs, glasses, napkins and plates on the snack table.
Teachers coach children to problem-solve in real life situations by working out creative solutions to conflicts with their peers. Imaginative, dramatic play encourages creativity, teamwork and cooperative play.
Letters are learned in meaningful ways such as learning to print their name on their artwork.
Love of reading is encouraged through daily story time, group discussions, and fun activities such as story telling.
Gabriele Rico, Ph.d., writes in her book, Writing the Natural Way that young children have an amazing drive to learn, and a stunning learning curve, when it is associated with the joy, wonder, intensity, and spontaneity of learning naturally through play. she says, "The deepest and most lasting learning occurs through play. "
Give your child the benefit of a creative learning experience at Play & Learn Preschool.