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.
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!
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!