Early Years Program (2 to 4-year-olds)

Our Early Years Core Values:

• Children are capable and competent. They construct their own learning through relationships with each other, their adults, and the environment.
• Children use and learn from 100 languages to demonstrate thinking and learning.
• Classrooms have three teachers: the adults, the children, and the environment.
• Documentation of children’s words, conversations, and creations makes their thinking visible and helps their adults guide them to deeper learning.
• Children learn through an emergent, not preplanned, curriculum and through projects inspired by their interests.
• Families are an essential part of a child’s identity and should be included in their learning process.
  

In our Reggio-inspired program, you can expect that…

• Play is the foundation of the day. We play through art, role play, imagination, sensory materials, loose parts and more.
• We have special classes every week: Physical education, music and library.
• We spend time outside every day by walking in the forest, having recess on the playground and through imaginative play on our terrace. Teachers and children study the natural world together and incorporate their findings into the classroom.
• Teachers observe and document the children, their interactions and plan next steps based on those observations.
• Academic learning is naturally developed through play, relationship and exploration of the natural world. Structured academics are built-in during the kindergarten school year.
• Family involvement is woven throughout our classrooms with photos, stories and family visits.