In an engaging and safe environment, play has a significant role in healthy human development. Our program is designed to support children's natural curiosity and love of learning, while providing them with the foundation they need to succeed in school and beyond. With our research-based approach, we provide an enriched learning environment where your child can grow, learn, and thrive. (Click on any of the underlined words below to be directed to more articles and studies.)

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Research confirms that play has enormous learning and social benefits across all ages. In the right environment, it enables children to progress in several domains of learning, including improved language and literacy, social emotional skills, problem solving, and math skills. Play boosts the well-being of young children and can improve children's abilities to plan, organize, get along with others, regulate emotions, and even to cope with stress! 

 

Here at The Play Loft, we observe the different learning styles and growth stages of children and use a balance of the following:

• "just right" games for skill development

• group activities including fun topic studies, nature explorations, music and rhythm, art, and movement

• open play where children can freely explore and use their imaginations 

• guided play where the adults provide materials and some parameters

• skill development learning adventures where guided play is embedded with mini-lessons.

 

Do you want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play!  With thoughtful planning, younger children can learn more from guided play than from direct instruction! The focus of our program is having happy & loved children who are given the interactions and the experiences that are a key part of neural development during these formative years.

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Whether at home or in a carefully designed program like ours, research-based, quality education and caring devotion are the best gifts a parent can give to ensure their child is a grounded, well-balanced and effective learner with strong and essential life skills. As we connect brain science to learning in a loving environment, The Play Loft encourages a healthy process by which a child grows over time, stage by stage. By integrating developmental and academic perspectives together, we help our engaged, well-adjusted, and intelligent little ones to grow.

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But what does this  scientific support feel like to the children? 

Loves and cuddles, friends and fun, games and giggles . . . 

or in other words . . . 

Play Time!