Curriculum & Philosophy

We strongly believe in the power of play and the critical role of empowering and engaging children at their own level. While we pull inspiration from a variety of schools of thought (Waldorf, Montessori, Reggio) we do not rigidly follow any one set of educational principles. We believe in engaging in play with children and allow them to be their own directors of play.  We believe in modeling, especially when it comes to navigating the social emotional skills that are core to the preschool experience.  We pride ourselves on ensuring that children feel listened to and believe that this helps with children being able to express their feelings in a variety of settings. 

We make plenty of space for self guided and open ended play and we also believe in the value of presenting children with engaging topics and activities. This is why we present a weekly thematic curriculum that covers a variety of topics.  Some of our favorite themes have been space week, mindfulness week, transportation week and community helpers week. We are always open to adding in new weeks that address a topic that students have expressed interest in learning.

Each week we integrate new materials related to the theme into circle time and ensure that there are stations related to the topic.  Our themes give us the opportunity to practice gross and fine motor skills, flex our social emotional muscles, work on executive functioning and practice our self help skills in fresh ways.  Children are never forced to engage in activities but are rather invited to participate in a craft, a baking project, a game or an activity based on these themes.  If you would like to view a sample curriculum of camping week you can click here :) 

Another key facet of our beliefs is celebrating diversity, no matter which thematic concept we are currently working on.  We do our best to be practitioners of cultural humility and are committed to ensuring that we ourselves are constantly learning how to be better stewards of diversity.  We strive to continually assess the books and items we have in our classroom to ensure that we have books and toys that are representative of the families in our communities.  We will always look for ways to discuss and celebrate diversity throughout the year and are always open to feedback from our parent community on how we can better accomplish this goal.