Preschool Program

About our Program

We believe children should be in small intimate groupings with a primary caregiver, where they can build trusting relationships in order to feel secure enough to explore the world around them. Caregivers should be supportive, sensitive and interested observers, using those observations as an ongoing process so that children can be given the opportunities to succeed at their own level of development. We believe children are explorers.

Play is the way children make sense of their world and is the natural way to learn. Play is self initiated, spontaneous and an opportunity for children to use their curiosity to explore, experiment, and test ideas.

We strive to provide an environment which contains materials that are stimulating, challenging, changing, varied, familiar, and loved. We provide an environment that encourages different kinds of play, such as: construction, role playing, movement, problem solving, discovering, communicating, creating, imagining, reading, writing, using numbers, space and measurement.

Things to bring…
Pictures of your family for your child's family album...
Two changes of clothing, including, shirt, pants, socks...
Diapers for those not yet potty trained
Shoes to wear indoors...
Clothes for outside...
boots and rain coats for rainy days...
warm boots and extra mittens on snowy days...
sunscreen and a hat for sunny days...

A Typical Day for a Preschooler

7:45 The Preschool room opens and the children and their parents meet up with their caregiver and friends.
8:30 Snack arrives and everyone sits down together to meet, have a healthy snack and make plans for our morning...
9:00 After snack some children will go to the studio to explore painting, waterplay, playdough, collage... and some children will enjoy music, stories, games, block building, puzzles, puppetry, symbolic play and project work.
10:30 We get ready for Outdoor play or walks...
11:30 We come back inside and prepare for lunch time...
11:30 Lunch time, together at our dining table.
11:45 Lunch time, together at our dining tables.
12:15 After the children finish lunch they help put away their dishes, wash their faces and brush their teeth and get ready for a nap on their cots.
12:30 Nap time.
2:00 As the children wake up they continue with activities set up in the rooms.
3:00 We have snack time together.
3:30 We get ready for Outdoor play again in the playground...
4:30 We come back inside and say our goodbyes as Moms and Dads arrive to take the children home.
5:10 School is closed ‘till tomorrow.