2 Day Program at Wonder Studio...

The Wonder Studio

Hosted by and Located at Shorecrest Preparatory School

Led by Shannon Lipan (M.Ed.)

**Preschool Alternative: 2 day Program at Wonder Studio!!!**

Why should I do the 2 day program at Wonder Studio?

Follow the lead of your child is one of the first things you will learn at Wonder Studio.

This means different things for different children.

Some children need to play for a moment at each experience and they move on rather quickly.

While… others might spend the entire class at one experience.

Regardless of your child’s learning style, enrolling your child at Wonder Studio 2x a week instead of once a week gives him/her the following benefits:

·        Sets a routine and rhythm to your days and weeks.

·        The 2^nd day offers opportunity to delve deeper into the Arts/Science experiences.

·        Invites the child to explore those experiences they might not have gotten to the first day.

·        Extended opportunities to problem solve and socialize with the other children.

·        Strengthens the relationship between the teacher and the child. Coming 2x a week helps to forge that teacher/student relationship more quickly.

·        Repeated exposure to the same Wonder Studio experiences helps your child know what to expect and therefore begin to understand making a plan and setting goals.

Choose 2 Days at Wonder Studio = $550

Email: tot.wonder.arts@gmail.com to sign up!!

What do the Moms say?

In my search for summer activities, Shannon informed me she would be doing Wonder Studio throughout the summer. I decided to enroll my 2 children on both days through the 6 weeks since we had enjoyed WS so much during the school year. Being there 2 days a week has been great! My children generally spend the first day exploring all the centers, honing in on one or two activities, but the second day is really interesting to watch. They tend to stick together on Mondays, but Tuesdays they seem to separate and explore more on their own. I feel this separation is because they each had the opportunity to visit the different stations the previous day, and being individuals, they want to do what they each enjoyed the most the day before. I have found that they figure things out on Mondays and really get into the activity on Tuesdays, taking what they learned the day before and expanding on their findings. Sometimes they discover new things they hadn’t noticed or learned the day before. Sometimes they see a new friend doing something they hadn’t seen the day before or thought of themselves. I feel their exploration and learning is much deeper and meaningful on Tuesdays. It’s been an interesting little experiment of my own; watching, observing, learning! I would highly recommend doing two days if it is possible.

-Leigh LaRosa

We love Wonder Studio-- Maggie, Abigail, and I all really enjoy it, and I think it's good for us.  The activities themselves, of course, are great (more on that below), and the whole environment that you've created for the kids (and parents) is welcoming and positive-- ideal not only for learning about arts and science but for learning how to be.  I feel like it's a good place for Maggie to see examples of good behavior-- everyone (teacher, children, parents, other caregivers, etc.) treating each other kindly, with respect and patience, and participating in a community (learning the routine, the rules, helping to clean up, etc.)

In any given session, there are so many different experiences, and I felt like Maggie could easily come to Wonder Studio twice per week and still not try them all.  She spent her first two sessions exclusively playing with shaving cream, and even after she decided to branch out to explore other areas, she would still spend long chunks of time in one spot, so I felt like giving her another day would allow her to experience a greater variety of activities without trying to change her pace.  I wanted her to spend as little or as much time with each experience as she wanted to.

-Sarah Albert

Logan just has fun. I like that I am able to bring him twice a week. I think all the different experiences and time with his peers is irreplaceable. 

-Jen MacQuarrie