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 open play and/or guided activities. Parents and other adult caregivers who participate in group activities are also encouraged to use the Center when open 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

The Preschooler Learning Center is located on the the second floor of the Adriance Memorial Library at 93 Market Street in Poughkeepsie.

Registration is required for PLC programs. For current schedule and to register, see our Early Childhood Programs calendar or call the Children's Room at 485-3445 x3320.

Discovery Stations is a program of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District and was originally 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.