Temple B'nai Hayim Children's Center, Los Angeles

The philosophy of the Children's Center is that of providing a warm and nurturing atmosphere where children are encouraged to explore their environment with meaningful experiences. We incorporate a child-centered approach, focusing on the children's interests and developing our curriculum around the children. Our curriculum is experiential and play-based. Children learn through doing and utilizing all their senses. We offer many opportunities to have fun through music, dance, art, movement, cooking, soccer, gardening and yoga. Our Pre-K and Transitional Kindergarten are more academically based and we concentrate on pre-reading/math/science readiness through the use of manipulatives. Our goal is for children to explore and discover who they are. We explore our Jewish cultural roots; we celebrate Shabbat with a musical program, bake challah every Friday and we explore our American and Jewish holidays and share our foods, languages, traditions and habits with others.