Skills and Concepts Learned at the Bath Area Family Resouce Center

Not just child's play...

When your child is playing he/she is also learning!  Listed below are some of the skills and concepts your child is learning while at the BAFRC that enhances his/her cognitive and intellectual development.

Social/Emotional Development                                           Physical Development

-cooperation                                                                  -fine and gross motor skills           

-feelings of competence                                                  -eye-hand coordination

-independence                                                               -visual perception

-self-confidence/self-esteem                                            -hand manipulation

-autonomy                                                                    -balancing

-initiative                                                                      -clean-up

-role playing                                                                  -sense of rhythm

-responsibility (cleaning up)                                              -sensory/tactile experiences

-respect for others' work

-taking turns/sharing

-following directions

Language Arts                                                               Social Studies

-early literacy skills                                                         -people and their work

-vocabulary                                                                   -interdependence of people

-memory recall                                                               -symbolic representation

-shape recognition                                                          -our world

-signs, labeling, directions                                                -awareness of community

-questioning concepts                                                     -listening

-exchanging ideas

-naming objects

-dramatization

Science                                Art                                       Mathmatics

-trial and error                       -creativity/imagination             -shapes/symmetry

-changes in consistency          -colors                                  -mapping/measuring

-inductive thinking                  -patterns                              -volume/area/full/empty

-discovery/awareness             -symmetry                             -depth/width/height/length

-interaction of forces              -balance                               -order/numbers/fraction

-inclined plane ramps              -dramatization                        -classification

-solids/liquids/textures                                                       -size/less than/more than

-changes in color                                                              -inequality/equality/same as

-balance/weight/gravity/stability                                         -space

-experimentation/exploration