Learning Centers:
- Provide time for children to explore their feelings and use their imaginations.
- Encourage children to investigate their surroundings, solve problems and think independently.
- Support each child’s freedom to move from center to center and learn at their own pace.
- Allow teachers to observe activities, assess children’s development and create portfolios.
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Children are encouraged to:
- Explore a variety of materials through play.
- Make choices among several options according to their interests.
- Socialize with their friends.
- Use objects to represent something else (a toy banana becomes a phone) which sets the stage for abstract thinking - the type of thinking that is essential to learning to read and write.
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