When you see me in the Dramatic Play Center, I am:

• Expanding my oral language and social interaction skills
• Beginning to understand other people and learn about their needs and responsibilities
• Making decisions and solving problems
• Expressing my ideas with words
• Sorting and organizing things
• Learning about my world as I recreate real-life situations

When you see me in the Book and Listening Center, I am:

• Looking at books and learning how to take care of them
• Listening responsibly to stories and texts read aloud, including selections from classic and modern works
• Enjoying and appreciating different types of stories, poems, and other forms of literature
• Developing listening skills
• Learning how to be independent
• Gaining knowledge of my own culture and the culture of others
• Becoming aware of the rhyme and rhythm in stories
• Following oral directions

When you see me in the Literacy and Writing Center, I am:

• Becoming familiar with letters and sounds
• Organizing letters to form words
• Learning that my ideas have value
• Learning to communicate ideas in written form
• Becoming familiar with letter forms, words, phrases, and stories
• Reading and interpreting pictures
• Developing an interest in a variety of books and printed materials
• Learning the rhythm of stories
• Increasing my awareness of the enjoyment of books

When you see me in the Art Center, I am:

• Exercising my imagination and creativity
• Learning to take risks by experimenting with paint, crayons, clay, scissors, paper, glue, etc.
• Expressing my feelings and ideas
• Observing, planning, creating and completing a project
• Improving fine motor skills
• Learning about colors, textures, lines, and space

When you see me in the Science and Discovery Center, I am:

• Learning about the natural environment
• Developing problem-solving and questioning skills
• Practicing observational skills
• Comparing and measuring
• Problem-solving and working together
• Discussing, observing, and exploring my environment by working with plants
• Weighing and measuring
• Performing simple experiments

When you see me in the Math and Manipulatives Center, I am:

• Learning about numbers
• Learning about shapes (Geometry)
• Learning how to create patterns
• Analyzing data by sorting and graphing
• Measuring and weighing

When you see me in the Block Center, I am:

• Problem-solving and planning as I construct
• Developing fine and gross motor skills
• Learning to cooperate and accept the work of others
• Observing size relationships, classifying, and sorting
• Participating in creative and imaginative play
• Acquiring concepts of shape, size, length, and location—all relative to learning to read and doing mathematics

When you see me in Circle Time, I am:

• Developing my attention span
• Listening to others
• Developing my receptive and expressive language skills
• Learning how to count
• Learning how to observe weather patterns
• Learning to be cooperative
• Learning how to take turns