Daily Schedule
Morning
9:00 Arrival and Open Play
10:30 Snacktime
10:50 Community Meeting
11:00 Outdoor classroom and Activity Groups
11:45 Reflection Meeting
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon
12:45 Quiet Reading and Rest
2:00 Outside time
2:30 Pick up
Our Program
Our program begins with children’s
self-structured play in our indoor classroom. Here, children collaborate with peers and teachers, initiate their own projects, and spend time in a community rich with possibilities.
Our indoor classroom features a large block building area, cozy room for chatting, reading books and doing puzzles, art area, and two rooms dedicated to socio-dramatic play. After cleanup time, we transition to story and music. Here, we gather in the living room to sing, talk about our interests, and read together. Older children stay at story time a bit longer to discuss more advanced topics. After story and music time, we head outside for snack.
We gather in our main courtyard to eat and chat together. Following snack, we then explore our outdoor classroom and activity centers. Our outdoor classroom features a full art studio, woodworking and craft center, a large 25 foot by 25 foot sand area, a large mud area, various climbing structures, a bike area, and ever-evolving activity centers. During the week we have time for music, cooking, building, and an intensive approach to arts.
Our extraordinary 1 to 4 ratio of teachers to children allow us to provide detailed observation, reflection, and design curriculum to fit each children’s unique needs. After outdoor classroom time, we then eat lunch together in the main courtyard. After lunch we head back inside for quiet reading time and then nap. When children have rested, we get back up and go outside for free play and pick-up.
Tuition: $2000 per month + $600 annual material fee
We are very pleased to announce that financial aid is now available.
Our age range is 18 months to 5 years old
We accept applications on a rolling basis.
“There’s a tremendous emphasis, especially in wealthy nations, on cognition…on making your child even brighter and even smarter etc. There’s a heavy emphasis on essentially left brain skills that preclude right brain development.
Really what children need is not a preparation for adulthood as much as a healthy and rich childhood, in which they can play, in which they can wonder, in which they can be a full human being.”
– Allan Schore
Clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
