Where kids can be kids
Photo by LaWanda LaVarnway
Iain, in preschool class B, builds a pyramid out of cups. The class currently is studying the world of insects with teacher Brady Brown.
Children at the Child Development Center and Lab School are enjoying many activities for a fun summer.
From water play on Fridays, to mud painting and studying variations of music, the young students are always having a fun-filled moment throughout the week.
Kendra Miller supervises the youngest group of children, ages 16 weeks to 3 years old.
Miller said the children have been doing projects with dirt that include mud painting.
Also, they go outside early to beat the heat, and on Fridays they have water play.
Lisa Jones supervises a group of 3- to 5-year-olds who have been studying music. The children have had three professors who have visited them with their different instruments.
The instruments include a violin, bass violin and drums.
Jones said, “We are trying to arrange with [OCCC President Paul] Sechrist to play piano in the music room.”
The kids love it, she said, and some even got to play the instruments.
The kids also have been working a garden outside that have a variety of plants.
Pumpkins, tomatoes, sunflowers, strawberries, radish and a variety of flowers are growing in the garden, Jones said.
Brady Brown’s group of 3- to 5-year-olds are learning about bugs.
“We find out what the kids are interested in, and they chose bugs,” Brown said.
With all the activities, the children should have a summer to remember.
Text by Matt Bishop
