Programs

Curriculum

The school has a spiraling curriculum that incorporates the core curriculum standards.  This basic curriculum is supported and implemented by the Reggio Emilia philosophy of education. This philosophy, originating in Northern Italy, builds on the creativity of  children.  In partnership with their teachers, children construct knowledge through exploration and then document that knowledge through child-created work.  Reggio Emilia enables children to acquire skills of critical thinking and collaboration. Teachers, along with parents, become skilled observers and listeners to the many languages of children as they explore their world and relationships with others.

Learning In Flexible, Multiage Groupings

A multiage education program is a union of an organizational structure and  unique combinations of teaching and learning strategies. The way learning occurs is made possible by the multiage structure.

Why Multiage?

• Allows for flexibility in the grouping of children according to need, ability, or interest; not just by age.

• Overcomes problems associated with a yearly transition from one grade to another.

• Establishes a more natural learning situation. Children work at their own pace. Their program is not geared to the work of a single year, but can be adjusted over two or more years.

• Benefits older children by the quality of leadership and responsibility they develop.

• Broadens children’s social experience with increased opportunities to lead and to follow, to collaborate and to make stable peer relationships.

• Teaches a child to work cooperatively with others as either “novice” or “expert”.

In summary, a small class in a multiage setting affords children the opportunity to succeed in an arena which is reflective of the world around them.

Please click on the program names below for more information.

Mommy and Me - infants to 32 months

Tiny Toddlers - 6 months to 16 months            

Pre-Nursery/Toddler - 17 months to 35 months

Nursery/Pre-Kindergarten - ages 3 to 4.9 years

Optional Pre-K: "Focus Five" - ages 4 to 5 years

Kindergarten - ages 5 to 6 years

Elementary - ages 6 years and up

Extended After School Hours

Summer Camp - 18 months to 10 years