Gifted Minds

We view curriculum as everything that happens during our time together with the children. This includes

moments to explore relationships and create a classroom community that nurtures the children. We begin each school year with attention to creating not only a beautiful environment that invites curiosity and exploration, but an emotional environment that encourages kindness, respect, tolerance, and love for each other. 

 

We create long stretches of open time for the children's play and exploration during the day, believing that children deserve the opportunity to spend time with each other and with their ideas, questions, and challenges.

 

Children have opportunities to engage in sensory exploration, drama play, block building, game playing, puzzle work, reading, writing, drawing, art, science, and math activities. You'll see children playing with their peers or alone. You'll see us watching and listening to children, documenting their play with photos and notes, offering resources to support and extend their play, and playing alongside kids.

 

Our unique holistic preschool curriculum was developed to take the children on an inner journey – a journey not only to becoming academically enriched but also to awaken the unique expression of each individual child. It is meant to invoke their BIG imaginations, help them to discover their creative potential and their own unique interests all while having tons of fun, laughing and making great friends in the process, in a warm, family-style environment.

 

Our curriculum integrates the intellectual, emotional, physical, social, creative and spiritual capacities; we engage the “whole child.” Although we provide some guided instruction throughout our curriculum, we leave plenty of room for learning opportunities to spontaneously arise as the children engage in play, having fun and just being who they are – curious, imaginative and explorative young souls just trying to make sense of the world around them.