The Greater Warsaw Cooperative Preschool program is a play based curriculum. The day is structured to foster age appropriate independence (signing in, answering the question of the day, and self chosen manipulative time), large group learning with morning meeting, and the largest chunk of time in self directed open-ended play. Play areas include dramatic play (kitchen, house, seasonal rotating specialty item), blocks, trains, cars, dollhouse, science and light table, reading nook, art center, and sensory table. During this time the children also participate in small group projects with the parent volunteers or teacher.  These high quality projects work on fine motor skills or reinforce thematic, mathematical, or alphabetic concepts. Next, the children work gross motor skills during outdoor play time. After that, they enjoy a snack, listen to a story, sing songs and other musical activities, paired with learning about the alphabet and letter sound correspondence before they head home for the day.