Learning environments should stimulate children's cognitive development
" The TCC preschool classroom earned a perfect score in the QRIS Standard for environments." |
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Dramatic Play
- Children practice language and develop social skills while pretending and acting out roles.
- Children attempt to understand what happens in their world and develop new knowledge.
- Children should be free to use materials in their own way.
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Language Develops Reasoning Skills
- Children learn best from repeated hands on engaging experiences that are enhanced by staff communications
- Children develop concepts through their senses and manipulating objects allowing them to organize their thoughts
- Children link new knowledge to previous experiences and develop vocabulary
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Cozy Area and Literacy Corner
- Early childhood prepares children for lifelong literacy
- Staff plan regular story times and read books spontaneously
- Children are exposed to a large and varied collection of books and additional materials such as puppets and flannel boards
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Block Area
- Children build various types of structures with the complexity changing based on interest, age and ability
- Blocks are building materials that do not restrict children by having to fit pieces together in a certain way
- Children learn math, science and social skills
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