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Tiny Travelers (1s)
Our Early Explorer classroom supports six children with one full-time teacher, providing a structured yet playful environment that nurtures emerging skills. Toddlers are eager to explore their surroundings and embrace their growing independence. Their day often begins with a short circle time, where they engage in activities like discussing the weather, identifying colors, letters, and numbers, and singing silly, joyful songs. At this age, children begin speaking in simple sentences, engaging in more cooperative play with friends, and using their words to solve disagreements—important steps in developing emotional and social intelligence. They also work on self-help skills, such as putting on their own coats, hats, and mittens, which build confidence and independence while preparing them for preschool.
After organized activities, our toddlers focus on building social and cooperative skills through classroom play and interactions with peers. Outdoor time, offered both morning and afternoon, is another cherished part of their routine, allowing them to expend energy, develop large muscle coordination, and enjoy fresh air. The school provides a morning and afternoon snack, and after a parent-provided lunch, all toddlers settle in for a designated rest period from approximately 12:30 to 2:00 PM.
Activities in the classroom are thoughtfully designed to encourage creativity, problem-solving, and early academic concepts such as colors, shapes, and counting. Potty training is another key focus, helping children build readiness for the next stage of their learning journey. At the end of each day, parents receive a detailed, individualized report that highlights everything from diaper changes and activities to their child’s overall disposition, keeping them connected and informed about their toddler’s growth and development.
Early Explorer (2s)​
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Our Early Explorer classroom supports six children with one full-time teacher, providing a structured yet playful environment that nurtures emerging skills. Toddlers are eager to explore their surroundings and embrace their growing independence. Their day often begins with a short circle time, where they engage in activities like discussing the weather, identifying colors, letters, and numbers, and singing silly, joyful songs. At this age, children begin speaking in simple sentences, engaging in more cooperative play with friends, and using their words to solve disagreements—important steps in developing emotional and social intelligence. They also work on self-help skills, such as putting on their own coats, hats, and mittens, which build confidence and independence while preparing them for preschool.
After organized activities, our toddlers focus on building social and cooperative skills through
classroom play and interactions with peers. Outdoor time, offered both morning and afternoon, is another cherished part of their routine, allowing them to expend energy, develop large muscle coordination, and enjoy fresh air. The school provides a morning and afternoon snack, and after a parent-provided lunch, all toddlers settle in for a designated rest period from approximately 12:30 to 2:00 PM.
Activities in the classroom are thoughtfully designed to encourage creativity, problem-solving, and early academic concepts such as colors, shapes, and counting. Potty training is another key focus, helping children build readiness for the next stage of their learning journey. At the end of each day, parents receive a detailed, individualized report that highlights everything from diaper changes and activities to their child’s overall disposition, keeping them connected and informed about their toddler’s growth and development.
Pioneers (Preschool 3's)
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In our Preschool 3’s program we channel a 3 year olds natural excitement and curiosity for learning by discussing and helping them make sense of the larger world around them. Since three year olds are able to spend longer amounts of time playing and exploring rather than bouncing around from activity to activity, circle and teacher directed activity time is slowly lengthened in connection with their growing attention spans.
Curriculum is planned around a weekly theme (usually seasonally or holiday driven) and activities are presented that engage and enforce the topics being discussed, as well as to develop their emerging fine motor skills through cutting and letter and number formation; and addresses cognitive skills such as sequencing, sorting and letter and number recognition. During these activities we are also able to address their evolving language and self-confidence skills so that they can start to negotiate, cooperate, and making appropriate choices with friends throughout the day.
In addition to circle and activity time, preschoolers have time for outside play, free play in the classroom, a morning and afternoon snack time, lunch time and a designated rest time for those staying past 12:15pm.
In our Preschool 3’s program we channel a 3 year olds natural excitement and curiosity for learning by discussing and helping them make sense of the larger world around them. Since three year olds are able to spend longer amounts of time playing and exploring rather than bouncing around from activity to activity, circle and teacher directed activity time is slowly lengthened in connection with their growing attention spans.
Curriculum is planned around a weekly theme (usually seasonally or holiday driven) and activities are presented that engage and enforce the topics being discussed, as well as to develop their emerging fine motor skills through cutting and letter and number formation; and addresses cognitive skills such as sequencing, sorting and letter and number recognition. During these activities we are also able to address their evolving language and self-confidence skills so that they can start to negotiate, cooperate, and making appropriate choices with friends throughout the day.
In addition to circle and activity time, preschoolers have time for outside play, free play in the classroom, a morning and afternoon snack time, lunch time and a designated rest time for those staying past 12:15pm.
Adventurers (Pre-K)
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In our Pre-K program we build upon the skills that the children have learned in our Preschool room and develop them further by planning out more in-depth activities that may take multiple days to complete. Circle time still includes discussions about the month, days of the week, year and weather, but may now include the reading of a chapter book and discussion about what happened in the story yesterday and today, as children are now able to recall and relate to certain experiences or character.
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The curriculum is more challenging as the children are more confident in themselves as individuals and they enjoy investigating and questioning items presented to them. Science experiments such as making clouds, and predicting outcomes such as "Will this item sink or float?" are fun and frequent in this class! Fine motor and pre-reading skills are also focused on by using fun and catchy songs to remember letter sounds and identification while working on worksheets that teach proper formation of letters and numbers. Children are also allowed ample time to engage in cooperative play with classmates during the day that includes choices such as multi-piece puzzles and games, manipulatives, and dress up/role play.
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In addition to circle and activity time, our Pre-K children still have plenty of time for outside play, a morning and afternoon snack time, lunch time and a designated rest time for those staying past 12:15pm.
Summer Fun
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Our summer camp program begins in mid-June and runs through the end of August. Join us for the fun, whether it be for 2, 3, 4 or 5 days/week. Each week our theme changes and fun, messy, outdoor activities are planned around that theme. Some of our favorite summer themes have been Splish Splash, Under the Sea and Digging into Dinosaurs. Water play is a big part of summer camp from pool time; to sprinklers; to a good old fashioned water balloon toss - we are usually staying cool with some sort of water activity. Special guests from singers to magicians love to visit us in the summer to round out the fun!
