Schedule & Curriculum

Pine Hills Forest Kindergarten Schedule & Curriculum

Pine Hills Forest Kindergarten promotes a nature-immersion education, inviting the integration of literacy and mathematics into the students’ discoveries in the forest. Follow-up lessons and activities that connect to what the children have discovered during their nature explorations are used to enrich and enhance their outdoor learning. Curriculum is carefully and thoughtfully planned out based on observations and assessments of the children’s play, ideas, questions, and discoveries. Reading, writing, mathematics, arts, and language are incorporated into the daily happenings in the forest. Small teacher-child ratios allow one- on-one scaffolding to foster individual needs. Teachers strive to help each child meet the NAD (North American Division) as well as the California State standards.

Students are given a wide range of opportunities and activities to develop a balanced and holistic education. To do this, the Forest Kindergarten routine ("schedule") includes a balance of mental, physcial, spiritual, and social activities to develop a balanced education and life.