HuckleBerry
Center for Creative Learning
Miss Kim
Kimberly brings her experience of over 20 years in the classroom to manage our Young Learners program! Her personal philosophy about learning especially at the TK/K level is that every moment is a learning opportunity. She uses open ended questions with her students to get them talking without giving too much of her own input. This helps all students, especially the ones that may be timid about sharing their ideas, to feel confident. She also brings being a good listener to this program too, because everyone wants to be heard and validated. Children are sponges and absorb it all! Miss Kim loves doing art activities and making songs to help reinforce whatever we may be learning at that time.
Young Learners Art & Science Through the Seasons
From Fall, Winter and Spring, we will be reading about the science of what is happening around us, making art and creating hands-on activities and projects related to what we are studying. Each month we will learn about a new theme, from what's happening to leaves around us, to what vegetables or flowers are doing around us, to what changes the animals around us are making as the seasons change! Art & Science are the perfect pairing at these young ages, as our science observation skills become more keen, our art as well will reflect what we are seeing and learning!
Fall: Some of the science activities will include learning why leaves change colors, how pumpkins grow and using the scientific method to hypothesize about sink and float objects! We'll do leaf rubbings, coloring mixing, growing our own pumpkins and so much more!
Young Learners Program Information
Young Learners is a HuckleBerry signature program for students aged 4-7.
Many of our students start the program in the Fall at age 6 and turn 7 during the year!
At that time, they are still welcome to stay in Young Learners,
but sometimes they like to take a few of our Emerging Learner classes.
Young Learners is designed to be a Transitional Kindergarten to Kindergarten experience.
ALL YOUNG LEARNERS MUST BE COMPLETELY POTTY TRAINED!
Our program is both academic AND designed to address the social and emotional needs of our Young Learners. You can expect your child to have fun all day long at Huck while they enjoy the process of learning, sharing with others, playing on our beautiful playground, becoming more in tune with their own bodies and aware of what is going on around them.
We have split this program up so that you can use it as much or as little as it suits your needs! Come for one class, or come for several days! While our individual classes are split up into traditional learning disciplines, each of our classes will also include time in learning how to quiet the mind, identify our feelings and how best to give ourselves time to understand them and build healthy coping skills, respect ourselves and others, and build lasting friendships.
We've scheduled a 30 minute lunch between classes that will be supervised at our picnic tables and on our playground. None of our other classes will be having a break at this time, so the playground will be just for our Young Learners! Please pack a lunch for your child. As many of our Young Learners have peanut allergies and our youngest students are still learning to keep their hands to themselves and clean up after themselves, we ask that parents pack peanut-free lunches.
Students can be dropped off at 9:30 and can play on our lovely playground until classes start at 9:45 if they are enrolled in the 1st class of the day.
Students in the 1st or 2nd class of the day are welcome to have lunch with our Young Learners at 11:15 - 11:45!