Preschool

We offer a warm, caring place for your child to grow, learn, and discover. Our preschool is open to all children between 18 months and 5 years of age and is individualized, allowing children to progress at their own pace. We strongly embrace cultural diversity and have an ever-growing calendar of cultural events and activities.

Curriculum Overview

Our Emergent and play-based curriculum incorporates current brain research and best practices in the field of education that are designed around habits and mindsets children need in our ever-changing world. We utilize child-centered, teacher-facilitated, and inquiry-based approaches that foster physical, emotional, and cognitive growth in each child. Together, these multi-modal learning approaches meet the needs of different kinds of learners, teach skills and concepts within children’s highest level of interest, and promote critical thinking and a life-long love of learning.

Child-Centered

Teachers keenly observe children’s interests and may even set out provocations to “provoke” interest. Teachers then work with children to design thematic studies and investigations around what is most interesting to the children (dinosaurs, outer space, robots, insects, etc.) Helping children to be active participants in shaping their own learning and the topics the class will explore increases motivation and provides opportunities for deeper, more meaningful, and memorable learning experiences. This small shift from having prescribed units of study promotes lifelong curiosity and is a skill set that transfers to children’s entire future as a learner.

Teacher-Facilitated Learning

As the class explores topics centered around children’s interests, our teachers are intentional in their lesson planning, always incorporating the children’s developmental learning objectives into their curriculum (e.g. cognitive, math, language, gross/fine motor, social-emotional, etc.).

Teachers help children reflect on what they already know, would like to learn, and eventually reflect on what was learned (using a KWL process). All of this helps to stimulate curiosity, lead to discovery, build self-esteem, and encourage mastery. Children build a mindset understanding that they can learn from one another, from active exploration, from books, from research, and through play and experimentation.

About the Curriculum

Sample Daily Schedule

Programs by Age Group

Additional Program Information