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The Early Childhood Center Program for Infants and Toddlers

Monday-Friday 9:00am-3:00pm (8:00-9:00 extended hour available)

Programs for Infants and Toddlers, from 4 months through 2 years 8 months are provided in four distinct spaces in our Infant/Toddler Center. The program provides nurturing and emotionally responsive classroom environments in which our youngest children can begin to explore, learn and create. The program emphasizes family involvement and encourages parents to take an active role in the early education and care of their babies and toddlers at the center.

The Early Childhood Center Program for Young Children

Monday-Friday 9:00am-3:00pm (8:00-9:00 extended hour available)

The Program for Young Children ages 2.9 and up to 5 years, is housed in two spacious classrooms with two adjoining, well equipped outdoor play yards. Our fours Universal Pre-Kindergarten class is a collaborative effort with the NYC Department of Education.  Other curricular collaborations include Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts and Studio in A School Programs.  The Programs for Young Children offer children opportunities to:

  • Become friends with children of diverse backgrounds and learn about different cultures

  • Interact closely with teachers and other members of the Center community

  • Enjoy the freedom to play

  • Develop the ability to use language fluently

  • Enjoy children’s literature and acquire a love of reading and writing

  • · Express thoughts, intentions and feelings through the arts

  • Explore the natural environment and discover how science and mathematics are present in everyday life

  • Become creative thinkers and lifelong learners

Afterschool/Evening Programs for Mobile Infants, Toddlers and Young Children 

Monday-Thursday 3:00-6:30pm

These programs provide an enriched early childhood curriculum in a child friendly, relaxed setting. Recognizing that many young children spend a long day away from home, the Center Afterschool programs provide enriched early childhood curriculum in a child friendly, relaxed setting.  Infants and toddlers participate in activities that build on relationships, problem-solving and discovery. The Center’s Afterschool programs create a warm and welcoming environment where children may listen to stories, paint, or dance to music. Children may choose activities at a variety of learning centers including block building, art, dramatic play, science and mathematics, water and sand, computer and library area. Outdoor play in the large, well equipped play yard is a favorite activity.

Afterschool/Evening Programs for School Aged Children ages 6 - 12  

Monday-Thursday 3:00pm-7:00pm

 Children are provided with opportunities to develop their creativity and expand their interests, while offered assistance in fulfilling homework obligations. Children may choose to play games, develop computer literacy, cook, paint a mural or construct a sculpture from found objects. Opportunities for outdoor and indoor play in the Center's play yards and college facilities provide much needed exercise for young people. Based on enrollment, children ages 5-8 may be grouped together in our Blended Program and children ages 9-12 in our School-aged Program.

 


The Early Childhood Center
Brooklyn College/CUNY
2900 Bedford Avenue, 1604 James
Brooklyn, NY 11210
718-951-5431

Updated September 2008
Wilda Gallagher, Webmaster