Building a healthy foundation for life-long learning through work, play, and nature.
Fresh from your loving home into the loving arms of our Early Childhood Preschool teachers who understand what the young child needs to set a healthy foundation for lifelong learning.
Our rooms are set-up to feel home like and support healthy development that prepares a young child for Kindergarten. Children learn to move in a community which is socially responsive to the other. Our days consist of indoor and outdoor play, communal meals, movement circles, and story time.
Led by our dedicated Early Childhood teachers, the preschool program is designed to meet the needs of the young child as they take their first steps into a school experience. Guided gently and joyfully through a day of work, play, and outdoor exploration on our beautiful 8-acre campus, your preschooler will be met with reverence for the special wonder of childhood. Program choices of 3 or 5 day attendance, as well as full or half day options are available starting at 33 months.
Morning Rhythm
While children play, teachers engage in purposeful activity worthy of imitation and children's participation. Sewing and knitting, grinding wheat and baking bread, water color painting, and various handcrafts are some of the activities of the early childhood classes.
Each day, a hearty, mid-morning snack is provided and shared by all children. A typical daily snack consists of a grain of the day, homemade whole wheat bread or soup. These snacks are cooked in the classroom, with participation from the children, as part of the daily rhythm
Two integral parts of the day are Circle Time and Story Time. Both of these are points in the day where the children come together and learn through play and story.
Waldorf Festival Life
Festivals in the early childhood are a rich tradition which encapsulate all the teachers have been working toward through song, story, and craft. The rooms themselves become imbued with the beauty and anticipation of festival life. Perhaps corn or squash are found in the room during harvest time, or a fresh bouquet of flowers from the yard in the springtime. Apple sauce or jam might be cooked; beautiful lanterns made. The room is filled with anticipatory joy and warmth, which activates awe, wonder, and reverence in the children.
Parents are warmly invited to participate in several of our festivals, which last approximately one hour and begin at drop off in the mornings. The festivals: Harvest Festival, Advent Spiral, Winter Festival, Spring Festival, May Day and the End of Year Festival. We have other festivals that are smaller and celebrated with just the children.
Preschool Teachers
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Parvati Scatena
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Cristy Hahn
