KRADLE TO KINDERGARTEN PRESCHOOL utilize the Creative Curriculum and share their belief that children learn best through purposeful play activities that are planned by nurturing teachers who interact with them to encourage and support their choices, surveys have proven that. Child Development Specialists have done extensive research on why children need play incorporated in their daily schedule. A learning center based program is supportive of the findings within this research. Learning center time is a scheduled time of the day for children to explore in a non teacher-directed situation. During learning center time, the teacher is a facilitator and will work individually with a child or work with a small group of children. This allows the teacher to take the child from the individual development they have already acquired to a higher level of development by asking open ended questions, encouraging problem solving and initiating dialogue in order for the child to move to a higher level of thinking and understanding.