Some centers are here all year.
C hildren in kindergarten learn through play, and center time is play time. It is relatively unstructured, and each student chooses the center that interests him or her. Different centers, of course, encourage different sorts of learning activities. For example, both the puppet theater and the kitchen encourage dramatic play and the development of creativity and of speaking and listening skills. For the most part, we have treated the computer as just another center, except that students don't usually use it independently.