Rich Classroom Environment

The classroom environment is the most important source for learning is organized and used in ways that make learning positive, engaging, active, and exciting.  Children’s learning and work are the focus of the classroom.  Our classrooms are literacy rich with reading and writing incorporated throughout.

Respectful, Caring Relationships

Building strong caring relationships are core to student success.  Teachers and children build such relationships through their daily interactions.  Teachers get to know each child and encourage the development of learning dispositions.

Observation

Children’s development is formally and informally observed through assessment, portfolios, student work samples and various other means.  At the same time, teachers reflect on what happens each day in the classroom, e.g.  What worked? What didn’t work? and What proved engaging for children?

Physical Development & Wellness

Gives your child opportunities to build large and small muscle skills, strength, stamina, and knowledge needed to live a healthy lifestyle.

Language & Literacy Development

Involves children’s abilities to convey their ideas, thoughts, and feelings through speaking and writing, and their ability to demonstrate early reading skills.

Social & Emotional Development

Supports your child’s ability to express and regulate feelings and develop relations with others

Cognitive Development

Supports the mental processes needed to think, make sense of the world, and understand knowledge across different subjects, including mathematics, science and social studies.

Creative Expression

Helps your child creatively explore the arts, movement, drama and music.

Resilience

Helps your child to develop a disposition of persistence, willingness and perseverance. Nurtures your child’s ability to cope with difficulties, challenges, conflicts, moods, stress, depression and harmful situations.

Adjustments & Accommodations

Our teachers make adjustments and accommodations in the curriculum to support the learning of individual children and of the group based on observations and reflections.

We make it our passion to nurture a sense of discovery, joy, and wonder in every child.  We guide them along the road to discovery with research-based good practices and assessments along six developmental domains.