Discovery Stations

The Library District's Preschooler Learning Center Discovery Stations provide the materials for children and parents to explore and learn together, discovering their smart parts. Children and adults participate in free play and/or directed activities. Parents and other adult caregivers who participate in group activities are also encouraged to use the Center when free play activities are scheduled. These activities are designed to help three, four and five-year-olds develop the skills needed to have a successful experience when they enter kindergarten.

This program is based on the theory of multiple intelligences (MI) which proposes that people learn in many different ways. MI is not a teaching method but rather the recognition that people have at least eight different intelligences and use all of them to a greater or lesser extent to process and learn information.

The Discovery Stations provide a way for parents/adult caregivers to stimulate all of their children's smart parts. Books, materials and activities that expand on the experiences and connections presented at the stations are available at the Adriance and Arlington Branch libraries for families to use at home.

Smart Parts

Music Smart This person likes to: hear music in his/her head connect music to emotions * sing to him/herself * tap or move to rhythms	Logic Smart This person likes to: * be precise * figure out relationships * have a special goal * solve things
Picture Smart This person likes to: * do puzzles * draw * imagine * visualize	Self Smart This person likes to: * be alone * have time to think things through * reflect
Body Smart This person likes to: * build * experience * feel and touch * make things * move	People Smart This person likes to: * be with people * empathize * interact * lead * teach
Word Smart This person likes to: * learn new vocabulary * play with words * read and write	Nature Smart This person likes to: * categorize * collect * grow * plant * relate to animals * sort

Location and Hours

Family Partnership
29 N. Hamilton Street
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(845) 790-5916

Please park across the street and walk around the right side of the building to the back. Enter the building through the back door. The Preschooler Learning Center is the first room on the left. Detailed driving directions are available, or you can consult Google Maps.

The Directed Activity Groups program includes the traditional story times for three, four and five-year-olds, and time to explore the Discovery Stations. Due to limited space, all children must be registered to attend Directed Activity Groups. Register you child using our calendar for PLC Programs & Events. Sign up for the Directed Activity Group(s) scheduled during the first week of the session(s) you wish your child to attend. For further information, call the Center at (845) 790-5916 or Adriance Memorial Library at (845) 485-3445 x3320.

Directed Activity Groups:
Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 10-11:30 am & 1:30-3 pm
Saturdays, 10-11:30 am

Complete hours for the PLC are:

Tuesday	10 am - 3 pm
Wednesday	10 am - 3 pm
Saturday	10 - 11:30 am

Discovery Stations is a program of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District and is funded in part by the Junior League of Poughkeepsie, the Friends of the PPLD and by a Parent and Child Library Services grant from New York State Education Department, Division of Library Development.