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Brooklyn Treehouse Preschool classrooms are environments filled with action.

The children are touching, investigating, exploring, and creating. Our classrooms are rich in materials and opportunities for exploration and are filled with the sounds of children working. Our classrooms are organized in a way that creates specific learning centers. This structure allows children to make independent choices and encourages purposeful activity.

We also have a dedicated outdoor play area, providing space for children to practice gross motor activities and play outdoors every day, weather permitting. 

Our Classroom Learning Centers include:

art

Art Center

Art materials inspire preschoolers to explore and manipulate paint, clay, crayons, markers, glue, collage materials, and much more. During art experiences, children socialize, share, and increase language capabilities. Pride in artwork goes hand-in-hand with the child’s emerging self-concept.

blocks

Block Center

Children use blocks to recreate what they know and then expand these structures into new and complex structures. As they become more comfortable, they explore more possibilities, creating patterns and designs or experimenting with balance and symmetry. 

writing

Writing Center

The writing center is a place where students can practice the various stages of writing from small motor skill development to letter recognition and formation. The colorful materials will encourage children to explore how letters look, how they compare to each other, and how they combine to form words.

dramatic play

Dramatic Play

Dramatic play develops spontaneously from children’s imaginations. It allows children to better understand their world by permitting them to incorporate experiences into imaginative activities. Such role-playing offers opportunities for developing social skills, exchanging ideas, giving and taking directions, and working out sequences.

library

Library Center

The library center is a cozy spot in the classroom with a variety of books available. It helps children identify the relationship between language and print. Children can choose a book of their liking to read individually or with a friend. The library center teaches children a love and appreciation of books and literature.

sand and water

Sensory Center

Children will have the opportunity to work with natural materials in the sand and water center. In today’s world of brick, concrete, and plastic, it is important for the child to explore natural materials such as, water, sand, clay, and dirt, relating to discoveries that are essential to the growth of math and science skills.

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Discovery Center

The discovery center encourages students to become independent learners through hands on experimentation. Children formulate hypotheses, followed by performing experiments, and drawing conclusions surrounding experiments like objects that sink or float or the life cycle of a butterfly.

Daily Schedule

Our daily routine adapts to children’s interests and needs. While the time spent on each activity may vary, the order of the day remains predictable and consistent, helping children feel secure, confident and comfortable knowing what comes next.

Here is an example of what a typical day may look like in our Twos classroom:

  • 8:00 – 9:00 Extended Morning Activities

  • 9:00 Arrival/Greeting/Informal Conversation
    Children work with puzzles, games, and books

  • 9:20 – 9:40 Circle Time & Class Meeting

  • 9:40 – 10:30 Work & Play Period
    Children engage in learning centers

  • 10:30 – 10:45 Morning Snack

  • 10:45 – 11:15 Multimedia Room
    Letter People, music

  • 11:15 – 12:00 Active Play
    Large muscle development, group games

  • 12:00 – 12:30 Music & Movement
    Music, dance, finger plays, singing, and circle activities

  • 12:30 – 1:00 Lunch

  • 1:00 – 2:30 Quiet/Rest Time

  • 3:00 Dismissal

  • 3:00 – 6:00 Extended Day Activities