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Early Childhood CenterAs learning results from both a child's readiness and environment, it is critical that the school environment be rich, stimulating, and inviting. Early Childhood Center classroom activities are carefully chosen to be developmentally appropriate for each child, instilling confidence in our youngest pupils. Classrooms are set up in learning and interest centers, and each day include an extended “free selection time” that encourages children to initiate activities on their own. Throughout the school day, children are encouraged to think, create, and problem-solve. Children express themselves in varied media, such as paint, clay, cooking, and poetry, with each activity designed to nurture each child's creativity. Respect for each child's developmental readiness is the underlying principle of our approach. There is an understanding that growth is a sequential and orderly process, in which children pass through predictable stages in their cognitive, physical, linguistic, and social/emotional growth. Our teachers understand how to nurture a child and, at the same time, challenge him or her to take the next step on his or her developmental path. Levine Academy's Early Childhood Center environment is designed to provide the child with a strong and positive orientation toward being Jewish. Every day of the school year, children experience Judaism as a joyful way of life. The symbols and traditions of Jewish life are made accessible, understandable, and tangible. Through the early childhood years, the child gains a Jewish vocabulary, a Jewish orientation to the seasons of the year, a set of powerfully positive Jewish feelings, and a sense of being Jewish. Jewish values and holidays are integrated into the Early Childhood Center curriculum in many ways:
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