Meadowlark Preschool

Mud kitchens are exciting, messy, creative areas to play. Children experience sensory, emotional and imaginative play as well as developing math, science and speaking skills.

Collaborative play is a type of play that involves taking turns, sharing, following rules, negotiating, and compromising. Children who engage in collaborative play work together on projects to reach a common goal.

Teacher-directed projects can expose children to new art processes and help develop skills that the children can later apply to their child-directed creations.

Research has shown that students of all ages learn better when they are actively engaged in their learning journey. As one Scholastic article states, when children have busy hands, they have a busy brain.

Nap-Time provides much-needed downtime that aids the important physical and mental development that happens in early childhood. Naps also help keep kids from becoming overtired, which can affect their moods.

Building with blocks provides one of the most valuable learning experiences available for young children. Block play stimulates learning in all domains of development, intellectual, physical, and social-emotional and language.

Secret Message Painting