Early Childhood Programs
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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 |
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Our Early Childhood essentials...
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Love and Warmth
Love and warmth between teachers and children creates a safe and joyful space for learning and growing. Our Early Childhood 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. |
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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. |
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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 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 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.
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