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“Although I’m not their mother I care for them each day. I cuddle, sing and read to them. And watch them as they play. I see each new accomplishment. And help them, grow and learn. I understand their language, and listen with concern. They come to me for comfort, and I kiss away their tears. They proudly show their work to me I give the loudest cheers. I am not their mother, but my role is just as strong. I nurture them and keep them safe, though maybe not for long. I know someday the time may come, when we will have to part. But I know each child I’ve cared for is forever in my heart.”
The mission of Little Scholars as a whole is to offer the highest quality of care and education. Our team has been carefully selected in areas of various child development. They have extensive knowledge in child development and education. They bring care to everything that they implement within their sites. At Little Scholars your child will learn and grow in a loving, caring environment. Our professionals will lead your child in play base approach to learning to explore, play and develop in a variety of domains. We strive to provide a fun, safe and healthy environment. We work as a unit to care about others, show respect to all, do the best we can in everything, look after our environment, and love what we do. We show up every day for every child and family that we care for.
Warm Regards,
Mariana Korsunsky, MS.ED
Director/Owner
Why Choose Us
Offer A wide range of enriching daily activities
Offer a wide range of enriching daily activities to meet the needs of each child (Child centered play, Floor Time Activities, Self-Guided learning model, child centered learning). When children are provided a vast opportunity to fit their learning model they excel in their development.
Floor-time Play is used to promote an individual’s development through a respectful, playful, joyful, and engaging process.
It uses the power of relationships and human connections to promote engagement, communication, positive behaviors, and thinking.
Self-Guided Learning promotes the natural development of self-confidence, initiative, perseverance and life satisfaction.
Child Centered Learning helps children become active participants in their learning. Involves giving children choices of learning activities, with the teacher acting as facilitator of learning.
Child Centered Play aids to help children communicate their inner experiences through the use of toys and play. This is a technique based on the belief that children have the internal drive to achieve wellness.
Offer multi-cultural and developmentally appropriate materials and equipment
Multicultural education refers to any form of education or teaching that incorporates the histories, texts, values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds.
Provide a welcoming, safe and nurturing environment
A nurturing environment is one that gives children the security and opportunity to discover themselves and their world. We strive to provide this to every child that comes through our doors.
Assuring that all children experience safe, stable and nurturing environments is an important goal. Little Scholars take great pride in providing various levels of security from the time you drop off your child to the time you pick them up.
A welcoming environment feels safe. It is a space where people can find themselves represented and reflected, and where they understand that all people are treated with respect and dignity. Every family that is enrolled with Little Scholars is automictically part of our family and we always try to do our best to take care of all out family members.
Offer curriculum resources to enhance the learning experience
Our program has been carefully crafted for all ages, developments and abilities.
We strive to have every child learn to the best of their ability by providing them age appropriate tools for success.
Educationally developed programs for Infant/Toddlers and Preschool/Pre-K addressing the needs of the Whole Child approach
A whole child approach to education is defined by Little Scholars policies, practices, and relationships that ensure each child, in our centers, in their community, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. By addressing all 5 levels of developmental domain on a daily basis, Little Scholars gives each child to tools to succeed well beyond our walls.
Music & Movement Programs
Research shows that exposure to music can also improve children’s ability to learn. Music and movement instruction has been shown to improve children’s memory, cognitive development, learning skills and expressive ability. Promotes group learning, practicing social skills such as turn-taking and cooperation.
Little Scholars classrooms are filled with daily activities for movement and the learning of music.
Our year round program also offers introduction to a lifelong love for arts, music, travel, architecture, and culture
Little Scholars program is designed for 12 months of learning, with the summer times for the more explorative education and play. Children go around the world right in their classrooms to study different cultures, countries, environments, and talents of the past.
Focus on building a strong and balanced foundation of emotional, social, cognitive, self-adaptive and physical skills for each child
Its not secret that the brain at birth is about a quarter of the size of the average adult brain. Incredibly, it doubles in size in the first year. It keeps growing to about 80% of adult size by age 3 and 90% – nearly full grown – by age 5. If we can give the children the right tools before the age of 5 to succeed we can set them up for their entre life time to succeed.
Little Scholars gives those tools to all their children in our centers.
Our classrooms are rich with Wooden Toys
The secret of wooden toys have been long discovered by many advanced Western societies. Their use can greatly benefit the development of your child. Wooden toys encourage children to interact and collaborate effectively – an essential element in a child’s development. Through playing with wooden building blocks with a friend, for example, they begin to share their ideas, build new relationships, learn to listen and understand, as well as grow empathy.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
Management Team
Nick Kats
Executive Director
Mariana Korsunsky
Director of Education
Nina Khosid
Curriculum Director
Marianna
Gorodetsky
Brett Koutsoukos
HR Manager
Sabina Masen
Family Management
Emily Huang
Educational Director
Iryna Stelmakh
Director of Enrollment
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Learning Center | Littlescholars Daycare
Researchers
0-24 Months
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Intellectuals
Ages 2 – 3
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Specialists
Ages 3 – 4
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Professors
Ages 4 – 5
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Researchers
0-24 Months
“Play, Play Play.
” Children at this time learn best through play and sensory activities. Little Scholars has crafted a program to help your child reach appropriate developmental milestones through the use of floor-time play, sensory exploration, singing, and modeling speech patterns. We use Finger Play Program to keep your child entertained and engaged from 6 months on.
Important Milestones
Intellectual
Infants and toddlers learn by exploring with their hands and mouth. They bang, throw, drop, shake, and put items in their mouths.
Talking begins with babbling, which leads to gradually learning to say and respond to simple words and phrases.
By age 2, a child typically will have a vocabulary of 50 words. As they learn to speak, they’ll use two- and three word sentences, like “More juice,” “Me want cookie,” and “Up, up.”
Emotional
Children smile and giggle when they want more of something. They turn their head, shut their eyes, or cry when they want less of something.
Crying is the primary means of communication when infants’ and toddlers’ needs are not being met. It is not a sign of misbehavior or manipulation.
Young children learn to manage their emotions through the ways parenting adults and others respond to them positively, are dependable, and show that enjoy being together.
Physical
Children will first learn to hold their head up. Little by little, they will learn to roll and to sit (usually by six months).
Usually by 24 months, children learn to creep, then crawl, pull themselves up, walk while holding onto furniture, stand, and then walk two or three steps without help.
At 24 months, children can begin to run, kick a ball, and walk up and down stairs (while holding onto someone’s hand).
Young children may catch a lot of viruses or infections that go around. As they do, they build up their body’s ability to fight off infections in the future.
Social
Young children learn to use smiles, cries, and other expressions to build connections with parents and others, guiding them to what the child wants or needs.
Positive responses reinforce growth.
Young children imitate facial expressions, and even develop a smile by three months.
Infants and toddlers respond to changes in other people’s behaviors, facial expressions, and emotions. They learn to interact as others respond appropriately to what they do.
Toddlers will play in parallel—near another child, but not with that child.
Intellectuals
Ages 2 – 3
“What is this?” At this time children are curious. They are curious about themselves and the world around them. They are trying to figure out what role everyone plays including themselves and apply these newly found ideas. Through the help of Frog Street, Little Scholars can navigate all the feelings, emotions, and the thirst for knowing and doing more.
Important Milestones
Intellectual
Children are starting to understand concepts like time and opposites – for example, big/small and day/night.
They also start to point to body parts based on what they do, sort objects, and match shapes and colors. And starting to remember what some things look like – for example, apples look red and round.
Around two years, your toddler might be able to use sentences of 2-3 words and say ‘I’, ‘you’ and ‘me’. He’ll learn and use lots of words and will be easier to understand when he’s talking.
At three years, your child will be able to use sentences of 3-5 words, or even more. She’ll start learning how to take turns when speaking, and might be able to have a short conversation with you.
Emotional
Your toddler is going through lots of emotions while also learning about other people’s feelings. Temper tantrums are normal, because children often don’t know how to put words to ‘big’ emotions like frustration, anger, embarrassment, guilt and shame.
Your toddler is also starting to understand how her behavior affects you and how your behavior affects her.
She won’t have as much separation anxiety, and she might not get so upset when you leave her.
Physical
Your toddler can run and will probably fall less. He’s starting to walk up and down stairs on his own, but will sometimes use the rail for balance. He’s now better at throwing overarm, kicking and catching a ball, and might even stand on one foot for a few seconds.
If you’re around while your child explores, she feels reassured and safe. This helps your child to build confidence to try new things and explore on her own.
Social
Your child will enjoy playing with others, playing dress ups, having tea parties, painting with his fingers or a brush. When he plays with you or other children, you might find that your child is getting better at taking turns.
Telling stories, singing and reading are also fun things for your child to do at this age.
Everyday skills
Around this time, your child is keen to do more things for herself.
Specialists
Ages 3 – 4
“Look at me!” Your little one is moving away from the “wow” factor of the everyday to trying to apply and develop further their newly a quired skills, understandings, and capacities. Little Scholars will help your child develop new ideas through play, modeling, and learning materials that measure your child’s ability and growth. With the help you programs such as “Happily Ever After” we can attend to every child’s learning and developmental needs.
Important Milestones
Intellectual
This year, kids start thinking about the world in new ways. You may see some creative approaches to tackling tasks and activities. By the end of this year, kids typically can:
Three-year-old’s have a lot to say. They also understand more of what you say—even though they may not always follow directions. At this age they typically can:
Use the basic rules of grammar, but make mistakes with words that don’t follow the rules, like saying “mouses” instead of “mice”
Speak well enough that most strangers understand what they’re saying.
Use five or six words in a sentence and have a two- to three-sentence conversation
Tell you their name, the name of at least one friend, and the names of most common objects
Understand words like in, on, behind, and next
Ask “wh” questions like “Why?” to get more information about things
Emotional
At this age, kids show an interesting mix of independence, playfulness, and fearfulness. As they approach age 4, most 3-year-olds do these things:
Be interested—although hesitant—about going new places and trying new things
Start to play with other kids (as opposed to only playing side-by-side)
Start being able to comfort and show concern for an unhappy friend without prompting
Take turns while playing (even if they don’t like to!)
Play “real life” with toys like play kitchens
Start finding simple ways to solve arguments and disagreements
Show (but maybe not name) a variety of emotions beyond happy, sad, and mad
Physical
This year, kids really work hard to refine the motor skills that they have developed in earlier stages of life.
They start doing some new things, too, especially with fine motor skills (small muscle movement).
Most 3-year-olds learn to do things like these by the time they’re 4:
Run and walk without tripping over own feet
Jump, hop, and stand on one foot
Walk backwards and climb stairs one foot after the other
Kick and throw a small ball
Catch a big ball (most of the time)
Climb
Start pedaling a tricycle or bike
Draw a circle with a crayon, pencil, or marker
Play with toys that have small moving parts and/or buttons
Turn the pages of a book one at a time
Build with Mega Blocks and create towers of six or more blocks
Work door handles and open twist-on bottle tops
Social
At this age, kids show an interesting mix of independence, playfulness, and fearfulness. As they approach age 4, most 3-year-olds do these things:
Be interested—although hesitant—about going new places and trying new things
Start to play with other kids (as opposed to only playing side-by-side)
Start being able to comfort and show concern for an unhappy friend without prompting
Take turns while playing (even if they don’t like to!)
Play “real life” with toys like play kitchens
Start finding simple ways to solve arguments and disagreements
Show (but maybe not name) a variety of emotions beyond happy, sad, and mad
Professors
Ages 4 – 5
“Yes we can.
” Through a carefully guided STEM program and allowing children to self-direct their play and learning Little Scholars has developed a system that promotes every child’s developmental domains for a life time love of learning.
Important Milestones
Intellectual
Imaginary play is a big part of intellectual development for preschoolers.
Children begin to name colors and understand simple counting. They gradually begin to understand the concept of time.
Building a strong vocabulary in early childhood is a critical foundation for learning. At age 3, preschoolers typically know about 300 words. That expands to 1,500 words by age 4, and to 2,500 words by age 5.
As preschoolers get older, they’ll want more and more independence. That’s best accomplished by maintaining a firm structure and giving them a limited number of choices so they begin learning to make good decisions.
Emotional
Preschoolers are beginning to understand what they are feeling, but they aren’t really able to manage the emotions.
They may giggle uncontrollably at awkward times.
Moods can change dramatically from minute to minute as preschoolers learn how to manage their emotions.
Preschool age kids move easily between fantasy and reality. Imaginary monsters are as frightening to them as a real threat.
Fantasy play can include pretend violence (including online games). Interest in fantasy violence and weapons can be normal at this age; it’s not necessarily cause for alarm.
Physical
Hopping, climbing, swinging, and doing somersaults begin at this stage. By age 5, many kids can stand on one foot for 10 seconds or more.
Children can draw a person with up to four body parts by age 5. They draw circles and begin to learn how to copy a square and some capital letters. They learn how to use scissors.
Kids often become frustrated with wanting to do something physically and not being able to do it yet. Thus, they have lots of falls and mishaps.
Social
Preschoolers shift from “parallel play” to playing together. Often their play focuses more on imagination than toys or games. Imaginary play is one way they “try on” adult roles.
Preschool age children are learning to cooperate, solve problems, share, and take turns with others their own age. In the process, they sometimes have to work through conflicts!
Preschoolers begin to understand that other people have feelings, and they begin to express empathy and care to friends and family.
During these years, children also learn about and experience prejudice and discrimination due to race, gender, and age, often from observing them in adults.
Preschoolers need to learn how to deal with conflict and how to solve problems while also managing their emotions and controlling their impulses.
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BAAO Adds Playful Elements to Brooklyn Kindergarten
Curved openings, blue tones and a constellation of pendant lights define a New York City kindergarten designed by architecture studio BAAO.
The City Kids Education Center is located in a mixed-use building in the Williamsburg waterfront. The institution is available for children from 2 to 12 years old.
City children’s educational center has curved openings.
Designed by BAAO, or Barker Associates, an architectural firm based in Brooklyn. The approximately trapezoidal center consists of two levels with a total area of 11,000 square feet (1022 square meters).
Preschool and offices are located on the ground floor, while extra-curricular activities for older students are located upstairs. A large window in the showcase provides natural light to the room.
The building has a courtyard courtyard.
On the first level, six classrooms are organized around a double height courtyard with storage areas.
Above the head are many pendants of different sizes that help to bring the blue ceiling plane to life. Glazed openings in the courtyard, some of which are located in curved niches, allow daylight into the various rooms of the center.
BAAO has incorporated bathrooms and play basins into the design.
“Windows of varying shapes and sizes in the interior façade allow borrowed light to enter surrounding spaces on both levels and provide visual access for children and teachers,” the company said.
Classrooms on the ground floor are connected to each other by glass doors and shared spaces such as bathrooms and play sinks.
Half-height walls allow teachers to monitor students
Half-height walls provide privacy for children, allowing teachers to keep an eye on students at all times.
A staircase near the center’s reception area leads to the upper level, where the team has hosted an after-school program for elementary students.
Along the upper corridor are classrooms for cooking, theater, movement, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) classes. The lounge has tribune-style seating for informal meetings.
The team installed skyline-shaped lockers in the hallway.
The windows overlook the lower courtyard and the street behind it.
Corridor city skyline cabinets
Center finishes include light wood flooring and acoustic panels cut into graphic shapes. The team used a restrained color palette of white, gray and various shades of blue.
The center was built during the coronavirus pandemic, which resulted in some modifications.
Pendant lights in various shapes hang from the dark blue ceiling.
“The pandemic has led to some ventilation improvements in the form of HVAC electronic and ultraviolet filters, contactless security and check-in points, and the addition of controllable windows to bring light and air into all classrooms,” the team said.
BAAO has completed other educational facilities in Brooklyn, including the Maple Street Wooden School in Lefferts Gardens Avenue and the Mi Casita Preschool in Bedford Stuyvesant, with house-shaped openings and cheerful hues. These two projects were developed in collaboration with a local firm 4 | MATIV.
Photo taken by Francis Dzikowski.
Architect: BAAO Architects (Barker Associates)
General Contractor: PSG
Structural and Mechanical Engineer: Ralph Albanese
Floors: Rope
Furniture: Public Toys
Tiles: Tile
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, UPDATED 2020 All You Need to Know Before You Go
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AlexanderDOOM
4 publications
Cherry blossom – magical
apr. 2019 • Family Fun
Fabulous Cherry Blossom View at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden! And all this is accompanied by a magnificent Japanese show organized by the administration of the botanical garden.
Published May 5, 2019
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Olga I
Kyiv, Ukraine 2018 • Traveling alone
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an interesting enough place for those who like to walk. Zoning is well thought out here. There is a pond with Japanese traditions, a Shakespeare garden, a huge alley of roses, shady bamboo alleys. Unlike the city center on a weekday, it is not so crowded. You can calmly engage in contemplation and enjoy communicating with nature.
Published November 4, 2018
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Valeriya
Moscow51 publication
Can be visited on the day of free admission
June 2018
A pretty oasis of nature in the midst of urban development. Despite the renovation that took place during my walk, the park itself left a good impression.
Japanese garden, spice garden, lily ponds – everyone will find something interesting for themselves. And a nice bonus – Wi-Fi in the garden and the subway nearby. And, despite the free entrance, there were few people.
Published July 9, 2018
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Niadelina
Kyiv, Ukraine301 publication
Must see. Temple of unity with nature.
May 2018 • Traveling alone
The place is memorable, very cozy and full of surprises.
I’ll start with the main thing…
Tips:
1. Duration: 1.5-2 hours is a minimum, but enough. You can do it in an hour.
2. Time of visit:
spring-autumn,
preferably early morning.
Open from 8:00 in the summer.
It’s also interesting in winter – greenhouses work, but it’s colorless outside, unless there is snow – then it’s beautiful.
3. Places for lunch/dinner – right in the garden. There are excellent restaurants with access to the terrace overlooking the flowering gardens. There is a cafe right on the street – the prices are moderate. For $10 you can eat. Everything opens from 10-11am.
4. What and when blooms!!! Be sure to check the official website. Right on the main page.
The site always provides fresh information about flowering plants and trees, as well as what you should pay attention to in a particular period.
Greenhouses:
December-March is the period of orchid flowering;
February-March – bonsai bloom;
There are also greenhouses – tropics, desert, Mediterranean flora.
Outdoor exposure:
February (late) – March, a carpet of wild and forest flowers blooms;
March-April – daffodils, tulips, violets bloom – they are various in shape, color and types in the garden. It is worth coming to see them separately, well, if YOU are a fan!!!
April-May magnolias bloom;
End of April, May – SAKURA.
May, June – peonies, roses. The rosary here is excellent.
The rest – see the website. I didn’t go to the garden in autumn (
5. For BRIDES!!! Weddings!
In such a place it is worth holding a photo session or an outdoor ceremony or a wedding – information can be obtained by calling the reception or writing a request on the website.
6. Price:
15 $ adults
$8 students, pensioners with a student card and a certificate, respectively.0049 Children under 12 free of charge, so that there are no misunderstandings, grab a document indicating the age of the children.
7. Free entrance!!!
In 2018, free admission on Fridays:
from 8 am to 12pm.
But there are a lot of people there that day.
Pearls of the garden
Japanese cherries amaze with their lush beauty, you can look at them for hours. In addition, every year, at the end of April, a festival of Japanese culture is held – tens of thousands of visitors in national costumes come to the action – it’s very beautiful.
Magnolias – many, different types and types from small-flowered to large-flowered (20cm diameter)
White, pink, yellow. And this coloring against the backdrop of the graceful tower of the administrative building of the garden.
Tulips!!! I have never seen such diversity anywhere.
From miniature the size of a coin to huge like a melon.
FOR CHILDREN!
If you have time / You are a large family / You are not a child but are curious… come on certain days (look at the site) and take part in an amazing practical lesson – plant flowers, watch the bees, admire the work in the anthill. You will be introduced to the local feathered and fluffy inhabitants (at least they will tell you about them). They will show and tell how plants hunt – yes, predators grow here)))
Even on the busiest day, you will find a secluded corner of peace and beauty.
I completely forgot about. Japanese garden in the heart of the Botanical Garden!!!
I wish you a pleasant journey and deep impressions!
Published May 4, 2018
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Elena V
St. Petersburg, Russia74 publications
Wonderful moments, this year I went to the garden on a sunny day. Chicano weather due to the cold sakura started only
May 2018 • Traveling alone
What unforgettable emotions you experience walking through the Brooklyn garden, you can touch everything! Cherry blossoms are always mesmerizing and impressive!
Published May 1, 2018
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Pavel C
13 publications
A place to relax and unwind
oct. 2017 • For two
Very picturesque. Plants and shrubs, a pond with a variety of water lilies, a hall of tropical vegetation and a hall of dwarf trees. Lots of seating to relax. You can even sit or lie down on the grass, though not everywhere, but only in permitted places.
Published April 1, 2018
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Elena V
St. Petersburg, Russia74 publications
Wonderful moments
dec. 2016 • Traveling alone
What an unforgettable experience walking through the Brooklyn garden, you can touch everything! Cherry blossoms are always mesmerizing and impressive!
Published November 26, 2017
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Andrey M
New York, New York441 publication
An oasis in the stone jungle.
May 2017 • Traveling alone
There are few green spaces in New York.
This park really gives you the opportunity to take a break from the constant hustle and bustle of the big city.
A little unkempt, but generally neat and pleasant to walk around.
Published July 3, 2017
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AlexeyShandin
Moscow, Russia304 publications
Beautiful botanical garden. We got great pleasure.
Sept. 2016 • Traveling alone
On the last day of our stay in America, we decided to take a walk in this garden with my family. Moreover, on this day until 12:00 the entrance was free. Didn’t regret it! Very nice place.
Published January 5, 2017
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ElenaMariney
Moscow, Russia1,212 publications
very good place
July 2016 • With friends
Spent the whole day here from morning to evening.