News release from Circle Preschool

Learning Circle Preschool, a non-profit school for preschoolers and kindergarteners ages 2.9-7, recently invited the community to join us in a celebration of play and creativity in early childhood at our eighth annual Museum Night on the evening of May 28. 

In early childhood, creativity springs from playful interactions with the environment and from the process of generating ideas. When children manipulate an interesting material, or combine familiar elements in new ways, possibilities emerge that can be played with, discussed with friends, and developed. Adults can provide the safe and accepting environment, time, and engaged attention children need to explore, generate new approaches, and solve problems with materials in their art, in their interactions with the world, and in their stories and language.

At Learning Circle Preschool, projects develop spontaneously from the children or may be suggested by teachers who have observed a strong interest among the children. Teachers may also pose challenges to the children, and so suggest project themes themselves. Discussion follows, when teachers and children explore the topic together, describing what they know about it and what they would like to learn. Teachers make time and materials available, as they observe and record the collaborative learning that unfolds.

At Museum Night, samples of the children’s projects and art were on display, along with descriptions of the processes children and teachers developed together.

For more information on any of the programs offered at Learning Circle Preschool, and for information about enrollment for the 2014-2015 academic year, please contact the Director, Katrina Selawsky, at 781-828-4800.