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High-quality child care: Luxury option or standard equipment? (NAEYC)

Early childhood is a time when children learn most and when they are most open to new experiences. During this time, young children are keenly "wired" to catch the meaning of their world. Research emphasizes the need for caring adults to create learning experiences that build on and extend children's competence.

Young children are

designed to learn

about themselves and

the world around

them. They learn by

playing and interacting

with the people and

things in that world.

Young children learn by

being guided through
their environment by the

grownups in their lives.

Early childhood education ensures that all children will have access

to circumstances, experiences, guidance, and teachings that promote

learning, and builds a solid foundation for success in school and

beyond.

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Play opportunities that enhance each child's social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development are the foundation of our program. Our program provides developmentally appropriate activities for every child including short, focused group activities, one-on-one teaching, individual and group playtime, large and small muscle activities and of course lots of outside play!

Play Under Siege
Yale's center in Child Development and Social Policy

No naptime in preschool, no recess in kindergarten--are schools focusing too narrowly on desk learning alone? Child development specialist, Ed Zigler, says that children's play is under attack as schools focus on children's reading development at the expense of their equally important (and related) physical, social, and emotional development.

http://www.yale.edu/21c/pdf/Winter2004.pdf