Our Program

THE PRESCHOOL offers a morning program (4 days/week, Monday through Thursdays,
from 8:00 a.m. to noon).

We’re open from early September through early June. Closed summers.

MORNING PRESCHOOL includes free-choice and teacher planned activities,
snack (brought from home), indoor & outdoor play, and circle time.

Free-choice activities are always available, for example: blocks, manipulatives,
dress up, role-play, self-directed art activity (drawing, cutting, etc.) outdoor play,
books, cozy corner, sand or water play…

Teacher-planned special activities include: special art projects, songs, music,
dance, yoga, Spanish, gardening, cooking projects, small group activities,
flannel stories, special books and dictation stories, group murals, hands on math,
simple science & nature, and circle times.

The Preschool offers a developmentally appropriate curriculum which emphasizes:

Children “Learning Through Play.”

Opportunity for creative expression & social play

Individual and group projects relating to our themes

Children free to choose their activities indoors and outdoors

Many opportunities for children to learn about and observe science, gardening, and nature

OUR THEMES

Teachers plan the curriculum relating to subjects that are interesting to young children.  Some ideas emerge from the children themselves, parents’ ideas, and our neighborhood.  We plan many books, songs, cooking projects, flannel stories and creative art projects relating to that theme. Parents are also welcome to join in with projects and circle times.
Some of our themes might be:

BUGS, BUTTERFLIES  & GARDEN CREATURES

DINOSAURS AND OTHER PREHISTORIC LIFE

GARDEN ART

FAMILIES AT HOME, WORK & PLAY

HALLOWEEN FUN

NIGHT-TIME ANIMALS

RAINFOREST

SEA LIFE

MY FEELINGS

COMMUNITY HELPERS

BIRDS

TADPOLES & FROGS

MUSIC

MAKING BOOKS

I’M SPECIAL, MY BODY & ALL ABOUT ME

WHEN I WAS A BABY, NOW I’M A BIG KID

ANIMALS IN WINTER

FOOD & STORIES 

EARTH & SPACE                       

BUILDING