Early Childhood Education
Imagine a school where children are free to be children; to unfold in their own time; to move, play, create, explore, wonder, and learn with their whole being. A place where the world is beautiful and good, and calls out to be discovered and embraced.
Check out our Early Childhood Virtual Tour below:
Check out our Early Childhood Virtual Tour below:
Thinking of joining our Early Childhood community? Here’s what we’re all about:
|
|
Love and Warmth Love and warmth between teachers and children creates a safe and joyful space for learning and growing. Our EC faculty has decades of collective experience understanding child development, deeply observing children’s needs, and creating spaces for everyone to feel safe and comfortable. Teachers model for the children how to care for and respect themselves, each other, and their environments. Through imitation, children learn to become compassionate stewards of the world around them. |
|
Nurturing Creativity Our programs provide ample time for play in outdoor and indoor spaces, with natural, open-ended toys. These experiences help develop children’s imagination, problem solving, and creativity. Through oral storytelling, puppet plays, movement, and songs and verses from around the world, your child’s sense of wonder and emerging memory are engaged. A lifelong love of language, a deep cultural and social awareness, and a connection with daily, weekly, and seasonal rhythms are nurtured. As children march and stomp and jump through rhythmic verses and activities a strong foundation for future academic learning is developed. |
|
Togetherness
We all work together in our Early Childhood programs, baking bread, setting the table for snack or lunch, raking leaves, repairing toys, and tidying up. All of our Early Childhood programming includes nourishing homemade snacks and meals shared around a communal table. The scene is set for your child to be part of a healthy social community and to learn, through opportunities for sharing and cooperation, to be their best self with others. We create a space where children are part of the “WE.” Our focus is on the group, rather than the individual experience, so children feel safe to unfold, explore, and try new things.
We also nurture the creation of intentional adult communities through shared parent experiences in the Parent and Child programs and parent and family events in the Morning Garden Preschool and Kindergarten classes.
We all work together in our Early Childhood programs, baking bread, setting the table for snack or lunch, raking leaves, repairing toys, and tidying up. All of our Early Childhood programming includes nourishing homemade snacks and meals shared around a communal table. The scene is set for your child to be part of a healthy social community and to learn, through opportunities for sharing and cooperation, to be their best self with others. We create a space where children are part of the “WE.” Our focus is on the group, rather than the individual experience, so children feel safe to unfold, explore, and try new things.
We also nurture the creation of intentional adult communities through shared parent experiences in the Parent and Child programs and parent and family events in the Morning Garden Preschool and Kindergarten classes.
Parent and Child Programs
Our home-like room is filled with natural, open-ended toys to encourage our children in their play. Our beautiful yard provides opportunities for running, digging in the sand or snow, pushing wheelbarrows or pulling sleds, and playing in our little play-house. Through this experience of play, the children have opportunities to learn about themselves and the world; to learn to share and to be together in a group. The relaxed and gentle rhythm unfolds throughout the morning, providing a sense of security, connectedness and peacefulness -- an oasis of unhurried calm in the busy lives of young families.
|
Our Parent and Child programs offer a warm and comfortable space for parents and caregivers to bring their small children for a morning of play, singing and storytime. As adults we make connections with each other to form a supportive community, sharing the joys and challenges of life with toddlers and infants, and having the chance, perhaps, to learn something new. 
|
