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 - All About My Community
During this class, we will focus on our community helpers: what they do, their job requirements, and how they help our community. We will have speakers from the community come in and share their passions and professions with us! Learning about others helps to build empathy and understanding about people and community members we might not get to meet each day!
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.
In the Fall, we will begin by learning a little about a variety of community helpers that we notice such as mail carriers, garbage handlers, delivery people, doctors, nurses, teachers, etc. we will read stories and watch short informative videos about these helpers and discuss how they affect our daily lives. We will engage in a variety of fun activities from coloring to dress up to creating a miniature community.
In the Winter, we will build on the information we learned in the first semester by talking more in depth about how each community helper fulfills the wants and needs, goods and services of a community. During this time, we will invite real community helpers to come and engage with our class so we can have authentic discussions and see first hand how these amazing people serve us.
In the Spring, Students will spend more time researching and working independently and in small groups and select a community helper of their choice to study more in depth and create a presentation about them.