Our Classroom

Children need a balanced environment full of meaningful experiences. 

Through imaginative and creative play and interactions with others, the children will explore their world. They will practice and strengthen their language and thinking, and continually develop their "flexible" brains. 

Our Whole-Child-Focused Classroom will:

• Address the “whole child” (emotional, social, cognitive, physical needs)

• Individualize the program/experiences to suit particular children (different needs, levels of functioning, interests)

• Recognize the importance of child-initiated activity

• Recognize significance of play as a vehicle for learning

• Always remember that children learn by doing

• Create flexible, stimulating classroom environments 

• Use an integrated curriculum

• Give children choices about how and what they learn

• Continually assess the children and the program as a whole

• Form partnerships with families

In preschool children learn to:

• Listen and talk to others

• Gradually expand their ability to talk in a group

• Play alongside and eventually with others

• Participate in whole-group and small-group activities

• Appreciate the accomplishment of others

• Take turns

• Help others work or play

• Follow simple routines

• Read, sing and chant in unison with a group

• Feel proud as their work is displayed and appreciated by others

Why Play?

"Play is a child's work."

• Preschoolers actively construct meaning about their world while immersed in social, imaginative, active play

• Play promotes authentic activity, strengthening all areas of development

• Children choose the course of their play, which engages their interest more deeply

• Research shows that play-based programs that give children opportunities for choices and self-direction also promote academic success