FALL 2025 WINTER 2026 LEISURE GUIDE 49 The Free Play program after school at GECSS • Focuses on children having the opportunity to learn to regulate their energy & emotions from the day, in a safe but "structure-less" environment. • Children are encouraged to just "be" in the moment and process their day by being active, reading, drawing, dancing, singing, or balancing on any safe surface close to them. This can help draw in the focus to "now". • Free play is a great way for all children to find & build their skill set- on how they personally will resolve and cope with various challenges that happen in daily life. It gives them the safe space & processing time to learn "on their own" without specific directions and guidelines pointing them and demanding them. o Creativity is built from Free thinking o New ideas are built from Free thinking o Play is the best way for children to learn • Let us combine the two & potentially lower the anxiety many children feel and increase their confidence as they build new pathways not only in their brain, but also their total self. GECSS Office Hours Fall (Sept- Nov) schedule dependent on programs and events.
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