The Learning Centres are used to extend the challenges of exploring the physical world. Certain periods of the day allow for playtime when the students can be on their own. Additional courses offer group activities led by the teacher, and children are encouraged to participate. There are also regular daily activities like stories, snacks, outdoor play, calendar, weather, news and clean up time.
Children learn through sensory experiences and they need to manipulate, explore and experiment with real objects. They learn by doing, moving and talking. Children are naturally curious about the world and want to learn about it. They are active learners and learn in different ways. Playing is the hard work of children. As they play, they check information, integrate ideas from past experience, explore and experience the environment.
Construction Centre
Building blocks (made of wood, plastic and foam) and manipulative toys encourage kids to create, design and build.
Games Centre
There are several games and puzzles for children to share, think and solve problems and develop their micro-motor skills, alone or in partnership with his classmates.
Art Centre
This centre has easels, painting materials, scraps, collages and a variety of paper that allow children to explore and express their feelings and ideas.
Music Centre
Musical instruments and materials encourage the children to try sounds, beats and rhythms
Dramatic Play Centre
This area offers children accessories for staging a home, a hospital, a shop… There are also puppets and costumes for imaginative productions.
Large Motor Skills
Areas inside and outside of class to play and develop the physical abilities of major muscle groups.
Sand and Water Centre
Children explore shapes, weigh, measure and experiment with different situations using funnels, sieves, containers of different sizes, spoons and jars.
Science and Exploration Centre
Here we share treasure findings. Stones, nests, insects, bones and shells may lead the students to this area. Magnets, scales, magnifiers and books encourage children to observe and investigate.
Mathematics Centre
Since very small, children like to organize, count, weigh and measure. In this area we have scales, clocks, boxes of materials to be sorted, estimate forms, number cards, measuring tapes and charts, among others, which help the students in discovering the physical property of objects and stimulate logical thinking.
Library and Listening Centre
Many books and CDs are available for reading and listening. In this centre, the children enjoy a variety of stories and take pleasure in discovering, through the imagination and the use of images, the world of words.
Writing Centre
Children write in this center, which is equipped with paper, pencils, markers and crayons.There are also letters, syllable sets, word cards and sentences, question sheets, and vocabulary sheets, among other things, in this area. The younger children write their stories with drawings, and the teacher writes the dictated story.