Energetic Early Preschoolers

Your two-year-old is becoming more verbal, continuing to explore new things around them and is beginning to develop social skills. A balanced routine and flexibility are important at this age as your child’s developmental needs are different from their peers.

To do this, your child’s primary educator and our classrooms create a nurturing, home-like classroom environment where your early preschooler is treated as a capable individual, whose opinions, actions and thoughts are respected and valued.

Our emergent learning curriculum is designed to stimulate the whole child through experiences in math, science, language, drama and music. Language development is rapid at this age, so we also take this opportunity to help increase their vocabulary. All lessons are presented in a way to help develop each child’s imagination by learning through play.

Stories from the Maple Classroom: Our Educators’ Vision…

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Stories from the Garden Classroom: Our Educators’ Vision…

The presence of early preschool children fills our classroom with excitement, anticipation, curiosity, and love. We try to create a space for them to experiment and experience all the wonders on their own. As the educators, we offer materials, provocations, and learning opportunities with intentional guidance. Our team offers a space for the children to take risks physically and emotionally, while encouraging them to think critically for their independent work and ideas. We also support them in their collaboration with their classroom peers. Often times, this age group, has external biases around being uncapable. However, our goals are to raise awareness of how capable they actually are when they are in a setting that allows them to practice skills on independency, empathy, and citizenship.

The partnership with families is very important to create our own classroom culture including each family’s home culture and values. We carefully choose what celebrations are appropriate and meaningful for our classroom regardless of the dominant culture in this country. We believe that this approach will lead to our anti-bias education that should start in our early lives. We value the partnership we have with our families. Our values are Emergent Approach, Risk-Taking, Building Autonomy, Connections to Home, and Family Partnership.