Preschool
Welcome to the Waldorf Preschool!
Ages: 3 - 4 Year Olds
Building a Bridge Between Home and School
Our Yarrow Class offers preschool children a rich, stimulating environment where they can explore, discover, and engage in imaginative play. Through hands-on activities, children are given the freedom to express themselves, build social skills, and lay the groundwork for critical thinking.
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Preschoolers enjoy a blend of artistic pursuits, practical skills, and outdoor exploration. By integrating arts, crafts, and nature-based experiences into the curriculum, we foster not only cognitive development but also emotional intelligence, physical coordination, and a deep appreciation for the natural world.
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The daily rhythm includes a variety of activities, such as free play (both indoors and outdoors), circle time, and story time, providing structure while allowing for exploration and growth.
Why Creative Play is Important
At the heart of our early childhood program is the belief that self-initiated play is essential for healthy development. It is vital for the maturation of executive function and socialization. Through creative play, young children develop problem-solving skills, boost their intellectual growth, and enhance cognitive abilities. They also practice focus skills, learn how things work, and analyze why they work.​
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Open-ended toys made from natural materials inspire children to build limitless imaginative world with their peers. This type of play fosters important life skills, including negotiation, patience, leadership, collaboration, and self-regulation
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WE BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF PLAY.
Key Highlights of our Early Childhood Program
A hallmark of Waldorf early childhood education is that all of the academic foundations the children learn are embedded in our experiential curriculum.
Self-regulation
Self-regulation emerges as children experience nurturing daily and weekly routines that provide predictability and comfort. Additionally, our classrooms offer a homelike, calm, and emotionally safe experience for children.
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills, which help support manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination, are engaged daily through arts and seasonal crafts. These tactile activities include watercolor painting, drawing, and kneading dough.
Kinesthetic Learning
Kinesthetic learning occurs each day as the children are welcomed into a sensory rich environment in which whole body movement is encouraged during unstructured inside and outside free play, and structured activities led by the teacher such as circle time and clean-up time.
Speech & Language Skills
Speech and language skills are developed through participating in story time, puppet shows, and circle time which are part of daily activities. Through exposure to nature-based stories, poems, and songs, children build a capacity for literacy in the areas of vocabulary, visualization, memory, and listening skills, as well as the ability to focus.
Social Skills
Social skills grow through imaginative and collaborative play. During free play children deepen their relationships through communicating with each other, and learning to share and resolve conflicts.
Gross Motor Skills
Gross motor skills develop, particularly during outdoor play, that lead to coordination, body control, and spatial awareness. Children are encouraged to run, jump, skip, climb, swing, balance, dig, build – and move!
Program Info
Our preschool class offers 4 and 5 day schedules.
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Half Day | 8:15 to 12:45
Full Day | 8:15 to 3:30
Extended Care | 3:30 to 5:30
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An organic snack is provided by the school daily in the morning and extended care program.
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Our small class sizes are intentionally designed to ensure that each child receives individualized attention and care from our teachers.
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1 Lead Teacher and 1 Assistant Teacher
1:6 Teacher to Student Ratio
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Our preschool class is for children who are 3 to 4 years old. Children must turn 3 years old by August 20 and be fully potty trained.
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After preschool, children continue their Waldorf journey in either the Dandelion or Valerian kindergarten class as they age and achieve developmental milestones.
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