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: Science Experimenters!
Science Experimenters is science with young learners in mind! We will encourage young learners to think “outside the box” and prove their thinking through hands-on and engaging learning experiences.
In the Fall, we will be exploring earth and physical science. In these units, we will discuss the water cycle and the states of matter by using different experiments where we can watch the water cycle happen within our classroom! We will also discuss natural and man-made resources and how our planet is affected by overuse of these resources.
In the Winter, we will build on the water cycle and study ice and how it is made as well as how it affects weather and the lifestyles of people. We will do different experiments with ice, and delve into what our lives would be like in an icy habitat! We'll learn about animals that live in cold environments and how they adapt, and what winter looks like in different places!
In the Spring, we will learn about the life cycle of various animals, learn about different habitats, and culminate with observing the lifecycle of butterflies first hand with our very own caterpillars that will turn into butterflies!