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About Us :: Playground
 

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Driving by most centers, you typically see a large structure, which, while it may look impressive is typically not a complete solution. To a child development professional, such an incomplete play area indicates a lack of understanding of child development needs and child behavior in the playfield, on the part of the center designer.

Our playground concept is to bring the inside classroom outside. Therefore we have a spread out a design where children have the opportunity to choose different play centers’ area such as dramatic play, house and villages concept with tricycle paths with traffic signs around the path, nature area, art easels area, water play area, sand area, picnic tables, chalkboard panels, sandboxes, magnetic panels, swings, large structures and outdoor cabinets. Throughout the year, children will engage in water play. During the summer months children have opportunities to participate in "splash days." Children cool off outside by running through sprinklers and water hoses during splash day.

Unlike all the cookie cutter design of typical franchised child development centers, our playgrounds are more than just a large structure. We have created a well thought out and spread out setting which ensures that all children have a chance at playing with something of their interest and avoids the pileup that a centralized structure tends to encourage.

Our playgrounds are designed to promote and provide a safe, fun, and colorful outdoor environment. Our playgrounds feature well selected, exceptional equipment for age appropriate developmental activities to help develop large motor skills and socialization skills, as well as to encourage children to use their own imagination.

Since the majority of accidents or injuries happen in the outdoor play area we have choose to use in the playground a variety of surfacing materials such as sand, pour in place safety surface, soft tiles and loose materials, to help prevent and minimize accidents or injuries.

Goals of Outdoor Play

Social Development:

  • Children develop respect for rules and gain self-discipline
  • Children fosters the social skills of sharing, helping, cooperation and problem solving
  • Physical Development:

  • Children learn to control body movements
  • Physical activity is an outlet for restlessness
  • Active play supports healthy weight
  • Emotional Development:

  • Children often reduce their stress through active free play
  • Through active play children learn perseverance, responsibility and self-direction
  • They learn to make friends as they develop a sense of social emotional competence.
  • Cognitive Development:
    Outdoor Play involves the senses of vision, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting and support literacy in all areas of learning such as:

  • Nature: wind, rain, temperature, flowers, garden
  • Math and numbers: counting, shapes
  • Language development: describing things
  • Design: building with sand and water, blocks and the use of the children's imagination
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