Learning Through Play
Children make sense of the world by doing: building, sorting, pretending, getting their hands dirty. Play is not a break from learning here. It is the learning.
The Experience · Ages 3–Kindergarten
Early Childhood
Ages 3–Kindergarten
Where Big Ideas Start Small.
A Reggio-inspired program for ages 3 through Kindergarten, built on play, exploration, creativity, and curiosity. PreK and Kinder are integrated, so the years flow together, and children have real choice in how their day unfolds.
At this age, learning looks like doing. Children build, sort, pretend, and test what floats and what melts. Teachers give that work richer materials, more language, and the time to follow it somewhere.
Two languages start here too, not as a class on the schedule but as the ordinary sound of the room: songs, snack time, clean-up, the name of every color. Small children pick up language by living in it, and ours live in two from the first day.
Our Approach
Three Things We Trust.
Art as Expression
Before they can write a paragraph, children can paint a feeling. Drawing, sculpting, music, and movement give them real ways to express ideas and be understood.
Room to Explore
Curiosity sets the pace. A question about a beetle on the path can turn into a morning of close looking, and at this age that is exactly how it should work.
The Environment
The Space Does Some of the Teaching.
Low shelves a child can reach. Child-sized tables and chairs. Real tools, art supplies left out where small hands can find them, natural light, and the outdoors always close by.
Teachers observe closely, ask the question that pushes a project one step further, and then step back so the child can do the hard, satisfying work of figuring it out. What they set out on Tuesday usually comes from what they watched a child do on Monday.
A Day in Early Childhood
A Day Built Around Childhood.
Mornings open with a calm classroom gathering, then settle into a rhythm of choice and discovery, with plenty of time outside.
Arrive and Gather
Gates open at 7:30 and the day starts at 8:00. Our youngest children begin with their own classroom morning meeting, a cozy, calm way to start the day together.
Explore and Create
The heart of the day: open-ended play, art, stories, and small projects that grow out of what the children are curious about that week.
Rest and Recharge
Outdoor time, a calm lunch, and quiet moments are built in. Three- and four-year-olds do their best thinking when their days have room to breathe.
What They Grow Into
Ready for What Comes Next.
The goal of these years isn't early reading drills. It's a child who walks into Primary curious, confident, independent, and ready to learn.
Children leave our Early Childhood program with strong foundations in language, early literacy and numeracy, and the social and emotional skills to learn alongside others. Just as importantly, they leave knowing how to ask questions, solve problems, try again, and take ownership of their learning.
Come see it for yourself.
Bring your family. Walk the campus. Meet the teachers.