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Our Infants program prioritizes affection, personalized care, daily multi sensory experiences and a safe but exciting space for discovery, providing a complete environment for babies to thrive and be happy in. Our experienced educators understand that emotional safety comes first for babies, and the importance of respecting each baby’s unique routine and rhythm. Our teachers compliment warmth and fun with rich Thinking Language during play that assure babies wholesome development into autonomous little learners.

Your once baby is now a Toddler, eager for exploration, independence, and self-expression. An environment that is warm, challenging, safe, exciting and that fosters autonomy and self-esteem is crucial!

Their imagination is at its peak and should be encouraged. This is an important time to challenge their gross motor skills and to develop important cognitive functions.

Our Toddler Program is strategically designed to captivate Toddlers’ innate curiosity and imagination while promoting autonomy. While our hands-on sensory activities surprise them daily and encourage them to explore the world through play, our Thinking Strategies help them comprehend it.

Our experienced educators create a warm environment that prioritizes emotional safety, design a physical space that promotes autonomous exploration; plan exciting activities that surprise Toddlers daily, and use VESS Thinking Strategies to promote deep thinking.

Two year olds are eager for independence and exploration. Their communication skills develop significantly this year, as does their desire for self expression. “self esteem grows significantliy with their capacity to be independent and do hard things,” explains Ms. Daniela, Two’s Teacher of 10 years.

Our Two’s Program focuses on fostering independence while instilling the values of community and collaboration through classroom routines, involving children as classroom helpers, turn taking and sharing. We work with families to identify potty-training readiness and work as a team with the family when ready. We take advantage of the big feelings that come at this age to validate them and introduce strategies to help them regulate big emotions. As their capacity to understand complex language increases, teachers model a rich vocabulary that fosters higuer-level thinking skills. Two year olds enjoy independent play and dramatic play, which provides us with a great opportunity to foster pre-literacy skills. Through our monthly country, artist and Unit of Inquiry, our teachers bring the world to the classroom and plan hands-on, multi-sensory activities that get children’s thinking going and fosters their inquisitive nature. With this strategy we nurture their scientific and mathematical thinking, motor skills, pre-literacy skills, socio-emotional skills and thinking skills in an age-appropriate and engaging manner that maximizes two year olds’ holistic development.

As your little one turns Three, their inquisitive mind is more active than ever. Important developmental changes occur, including a shift from parallel (or independent) play to shared play, and they have an increased ability for independence, comprehension and verbal expression. Our PK3 Program takes advantage of three year olds’ eagerness for discovery and contribution and places children in an environment built to potentiate each child.

Our PK3 Program continues to focus on whole-child development, so there is a more evident focus on school-readiness skills, yet emotional education, inquisitiveness, scientific thinking, citizenship, creativity and innovation, and high-level thinking skills are equally nurtured.

Though pre-reading and pre-writing skills were fostered in our Two’s program, three year olds are now ready to take them a step further. We work on fine motor skills for writing. We focus on letter phonics (how letters sound), which is proven to facilitate children’s reading and writing process. Mathematical concepts like number sense (the understanding of what a number means and the concept of quantity), patterns, sequences, and geometry in the real world, are all a strong focus of our program towards school readiness, and we do so through exciting and meaningful learning experiences that fosters children’s desires to WANT to learn.

Our Teachers take a “mentor” role, and our small group set-up encourages the sharing of ideas and teamwork. Our main goal is autonomous little learners with the tools and desire to discover the world! Read ahead to learn the details of our VESS educational approach for 3 year olds.

Our goals for PK4/5 go beyond preparation for Elementary School and into developing Thinking skills that promote their creativity,  out of the box thinking, deep understanding, and problem-solving. We do so by promoting each child’s unique passions and needs in a space with multiple learning setups that respond to various interests and complement this with research-based Thinking Strategies to challenge them intellectually and promote deep comprehension. 

We develop autonomous, adaptable kindergarteners with the tools to build fulfilling and balanced lives beyond school.

We offer FREE VPK during the school year and FREE Summer VPK.