Summer
News 2018
The Academy of Maryland Farms is excited to reintroduce our summer
program, The Power of Play. As quoted by the Department of Education in a
Literature Review,” There has been an abundance of research around play and its
positive effects on early childhood learning and development. In general,
research shows strong links between creative play and language, physical, cognitive,
and social development. Play is a healthy, essential part of childhood. Infants
explore their world through their senses while adults in their world foster
their development and learning through playing games with them. Toddlers engage
in pretend play when they imitate actions and events they have experienced in
their family life. As they grow into four and five year old, young children
engage more and more in play activities that expand their knowledge of the
world around them, develop their motor skills and focus on their peers.”
We are excited to be able to allow your children to grow and
learn here at The Academy. Our weekly themes that we will focus on through play
are as follows: The Power of Outdoors,
The Power of Nature, The Power of Sensory, The Power of Science, The Power of
Reading, The Power of Connecting, The Power of Math, The Power of Blocks, The
Power of Music, The Power of Movement, The Power of Dramatic Play, and the
Power of Art. Each week we will have special activities implemented by our
educators to assist each child while they learn through play about the items.
Each child will be able to learn at their own pace and gain memories for many
years to come.
A new area of highlight of the summer program will be introducing
Provocations through literacy for our Toddlers, Preschools, and PreK
classrooms. These are open ended activities that don’t have a prescribed outcome,
instead it is designed to stimulation ideas, initiative and imagination for the
children. We know that this addition to the summer program will help grasp the
curious minds of our eager to learn children and help them develop ever more.
