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Passport to Play! is a 3-week classroom enrichment program designed to teach essential life skills. Students then apply what they’ve learned during a 2-hour immersive field trip to a kid-sized town where learning comes to life.
Each student receives a Play Passport and earns stamps as they rotate through interactive community stations.
Passport to Play! Learning Through Imaginative, Community-Based Play
An educational field trip experience designed to support early learning standards through hands-on exploration.
Program Overview
Passport to Play! is a play-based learning experience that allows children to explore a miniature town environment through imaginative role-play. Children engage with real-world concepts such as community helpers, problem-solving, communication, and cooperation while learning in a joyful, developmentally appropriate setting.
Standards Alignment
This program aligns with the Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards (IELDS) and nationally recognized early childhood frameworks, supporting whole-child development across multiple learning domains.
● Social & Emotional Development: Cooperation, empathy, self-regulation, and understanding community roles
● Language & Literacy: Vocabulary growth, storytelling, listening, and expressive language ● Mathematics: Counting, sorting, money concepts, measurement, and problem-solving
● Science & STEM: Exploration, cause and effect, early engineering and critical thinking
● Social Studies: Civic awareness, careers, and how communities function
Educational Best Practices Passport to Play! reflects best practices supported by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, emphasizing experiential, child-led learning through play.
