Play Based Preschool - Voted Best of the Best Day Care!
Kids Corner Child Care Center is a Play Based Preschool in Lake Orion Michigan. Imagine a place where young children can grow and learn to their optimum by following their own interests and desires. A place where children can wonder, discover and experience the world on their terms; where teachers and parents form a caring environment participating together in a school abounding with child-directed play.Kids Corner began in 1995 when the building was converted from a home to a school. How wonderful to have the feel of a home with the learning atmosphere of a preschool. What started as an empty shell of a building and a small play yard, over the years sprouted into a vibrant early childhood center. Kids Corner has been recognized as best of the best for many years voted by the Lake Orion Community. Through the hard work of amazing teachers guided by its original Teacher and Director, Sue Tunny. They adopted the Play-Based, Child-Directed, Parent Participation
Approach to education that acknowledges:
Children are naturally motivated by their own desire to make sense of their world.
Children learn through their active involvement in the world.
It is the role of the adults to establish the play environment and provide guidance understanding that young children learn best though self-directed play. -Bev Bos
Children learn through their active involvement in the world.
It is the role of the adults to establish the play environment and provide guidance understanding that young children learn best though self-directed play. -Bev Bos
Learning involves all of the senses. Children need to move, to touch, to hold, to take things apart, to rearrange, experiment, deconstruct, reconstruct, imagine, talk out loud, and to play – which is “the single most significant factor in determining our success and happiness.” (Stuart Brown)
Our Director and Owner Sue Biddle
Sue Biddle, a teacher, mother, yaya and advocate for play-based learning for children, a lifelong learner who never gave up on her dream of impacting as many children's lives as she could humanly do at one time.
