Innovative Junior-Senior Kindergarten Option for Parents
Based on an innovative partnership between the Butterfly Learning Centre and the Waterloo Region District School Board, families of Junior and Senior Kindergarten aged children can benefit from a new SEAMLESS day that the program provides.
Children involved will attend kindergarten every other day for a full day of kindergarten managed and delivered by a teacher from the board. The children will receive care from the BLC qualified Early Childhood Teachers before and after school. On the opposite days they will receive care from the Butterfly Learning Centre Early Childhood Teachers. The entire program will be conducted at Lexington Public School, located at 431 Forestlawn Road in Waterloo.
The kindergarten teacher will be a member of the Lexington Public School staff. Children registered in the program will be part of an extended Lexington Public school community and take part in the Lexington events, while learning at the Butterfly Learning centre. BLC will provide a morning and afternoon snack and parents are to provide a bagged lunch. As well, the BLC program will have focus on the Wings of Discovery Curriculum and the Second Step curriculum.
The Wings of Discovery Curriculum is the first of its kind in Canada, and focuses on Science and Technology as a platform for teaching in the early years. The program has been developed by the Lets Talk Science Team, a national not for profit organization. Program space is limited to 40 children.
Wings of Discovery Program
Your child will benefit from The Wings of Discovery program – the first of its kind in Canada – that focuses on science and technology as a platform for teaching in the early years. Let's Talk Science, a national not-for-profit organization developed the program, which was piloted at BLC, and evaluated by Queen’s University.
Through Wings of Discovery, your child will explore, learn and apply basic mathematics, sciences and technology concepts in daily programming within a structured early years learning program.
Wings of Discovery will answer your child’s questions about his or her world (most of which are actually science-based). The program:
- encourages children’s innate curiosity
- fosters the development of critical skills and abilities such as working with others, asking good questions, and solving problems
- provides a solid foundation for lifelong learning and interest in science
Designed to develop your child’s critical skills and positive attitudes towards Science (including the environment), the program incorporates hands-on activities suitable for young children, educator-training materials, and print learning materials. Each element of The Wings of Discovery program has the following attributes:
- child-centred
- integrated and holistic approach to learning with a focus on “real life”
- based on solid educational theory
- strong math, science, environment, and technology component
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