1. Cooking class Cooking activities promote the social/emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development of a child. The child learns to cooperate, to understand and follow directions, and to count, compare, and measure. Cooking also promotes the small muscles in a child's hands and coordinates their eye-hand movements. Have you ever wondered what green eggs and ham taste like? Now your child can have fun while making yummy dishes he/she always wanted to eat from the favorite storybook. Young children are fascinated as they learn how to mix, measure, pour, and sift various ingredients to create delicious, healthy, and artistic kid-tested snacks and main dishes. Kitchen safety and proper food handling are stressed throughout the session, as are sequencing, measurement, and group-work. Children practice how to cook like a pro in this class! Measuring and mixing has never been so much fun, and the tasty result makes a great gift for their parents! 2. Creative art class Research shows that children who receive art lessons while they are young become more imaginative and creative adults. Creativity is an essential part of intelligence, and is often used as a gauge for measuring IQ. Have you ever wanted to build a little pig’s straw house? Now your child can explore various materials out of his/her favorite storybooks. Children are encouraged to explore and create without worrying about making a mess. Art techniques including sculpting, drawing, painting, collage and ceramics, are introduced and worked with in a variety of sizes, as we discover the elements of design such as color, shape, form, texture, and line. Young artists in this class will find the many sources of artist's inspiration and use art as their own personal language. This class can get really wild, so please be sure children bring another pair of clothes from head to toes. 3. Music and movement class Musical aptitude stabilizes by age 8. The linguistic skills of a child who was never spoken to during the early years of life suffer compared with those encouraged to dance and sing. Through an early exposure to music, children will be better prepared to find the rhythm later in life. Have you ever wondered how Max sang and danced with wild things? Now your child can become a wild thing and enjoy music and movement with his or her friends. Music and movement experiences combined with his/her favorite story book make evolutions in language skills, literacy, listening, problem solving, social skills, self-esteem, and musicality, which will last a life time. 4. Interactive literacy class Academic skills are learned best in a naturalist setting, where a child has a purpose to acquire that skill. For a child to cook, he/she needs to read a recipe. For a child to build, he/she needs to measure. Childhood education experts stress that early learning is embedded in play and everyday common experiences. It is up to adults to utilize the opportunities that their children encounter. Literacy develops when children are very young with the careful scaffolding of adults. Parents now have a choice to enroll their child in developmentally appropriate classes for literacy which go beyond just phonics and workbooks. BK Play strictly follows the guidelines and recommendations from leading early childhood education associations. Literacy class is recommended to go along with one of the creative arts classes. Children explore every academic subject possible during the creative arts classes, and literacy class can strengthen what they have already learned. With Interactive Whiteboard, children can write and draw over computer files, change and manipulate shapes, discuss and compare with each other what they have learned from activities, and even save their lessons to be emailed and reviewed with their parents. Literacy class encourages children to investigate and organize ideas, and to become more confident about the things they have already learned.