Atelier
The Atelier in our preschool is a creative space designed to inspire young minds through art and exploration. It is filled with various materials and tools that encourage children to experiment, express themselves, and develop their artistic skills. Our environment fosters imagination and collaboration, allowing students to engage in hands-on projects and learn through play. The atelier promotes a sense of curiosity and self-discovery, making it an essential part of a well-rounded early childhood experience.
Loose Parts
Loose parts play is an educational approach that encourages children to explore and interact with a variety of open-ended materials. Loose parts promote creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking as children manipulate items such as, wood, fabric, and other natural or recycled materials. By engaging in loose parts play, children can express their ideas, collaborate with one another, and develop their imagination! This approach aligns with the Reggio Emilia philosophy, which values child-led learning and the importance of a rich, stimulating environment. We love our loose parts play!
Sensory
Sensory experiences play a crucial role in children's development by engaging their senses and enhancing their learning. These activities improve fine motor skills, boost cognitive development, and emotional regulation. Through sensory play, children can explore their environment, fostering creativity imagination.
Literacy
Our literacy program is intentional, developmentally appropriate, and grounded in the Science of Reading. Children receive explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension, building strong foundations for reading and writing.
In our preschool and kindergarten classrooms, literacy learning is active and engaging. Children participate daily in sound play, rhyming, syllable work, oral blending and segmenting, letter-sound instruction, shared reading, storytelling, and meaningful conversations. These experiences are designed to be multisensory and joyful, supporting how young children learn best.
Within our Reggio-inspired environment, literacy is connected to children’s interests, projects, and creative work. Children explore language through play, discussion, writing, and representation, seeing reading and writing as purposeful tools for communication and expression.
Educators provide clear instruction, thoughtful guidance, and ongoing assessment to support each child’s progress. Our goal is for children to develop strong early literacy skills, confidence as communicators, and a lifelong love of reading within a supportive, faith-centered community.
Writing Center
Our Reggio-inspired approach to writing provides children with many opportunities to explore mark-making as a meaningful form of communication. In the early years, children use a wide variety of materials such as pencils, markers, crayons, paint, charcoal, clay tools, and natural and found objects to experiment with lines, shapes, symbols, and early letter forms.
These experiences strengthen fine motor skills and build confidence while allowing children to express ideas, tell stories, and document their learning in authentic ways. Writing is embedded throughout the classroom and atelier as children draw, label, dictate, and create in connection with play and project work.
In kindergarten, writing instruction becomes more intentional, with regular handwriting practice that supports proper letter formation, grip, and spacing while continuing to honor creativity and purposeful writing. Through this balanced approach, children develop strong writing foundations and view writing as a natural and powerful way to communicate.
Math & Numbers
Mathematics in early childhood is grounded in hands-on exploration, meaningful play, and real-life experiences. Young children build mathematical understanding through counting, sorting, measuring, patterning, and problem-solving using concrete materials, games, and everyday classroom experiences.
Math concepts are introduced in developmentally appropriate ways that encourage curiosity, conversation, and flexible thinking, helping children develop a strong number sense and confidence with mathematical ideas.
As children move into kindergarten, math instruction becomes more intentional and structured while remaining engaging and hands-on. Teachers provide explicit instruction in foundational skills such as number sense, addition and subtraction, measurement, geometry, and early data concepts. Children use manipulatives, visual models, math games, and guided practice to deepen understanding and apply skills in meaningful ways.
This balanced approach supports strong mathematical foundations while honoring how young children learn best through exploration, discussion, and active engagement.
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Nature & Science
We believe God created the outdoors as a gift for children to explore, enjoy, and care for in every season. Time spent outside allows children to experience God’s creation firsthand as they notice changes in weather, observe living things, and develop a sense of wonder and gratitude.
Children are encouraged to play, learn, and explore outdoors in all types of weather, building resilience, curiosity, and respect for the natural world.
Through daily outdoor experiences, children grow in appreciation for God’s creation while strengthening their bodies, developing independence, and finding joy in the world around them.
Science experiments invite children into a sense of wonder as they observe, question, and discover how the world works. Through hands-on exploration, children make predictions, test ideas, and experience the excitement of seeing what happens next. These experiences spark curiosity, encourage critical thinking, and help children develop a love of learning as they explore God’s world with joy and awe.
Engineering & Building
Engineering and building experiences play a powerful role in developing math, literacy, and communication skills, especially in early childhood.
When children build and design, they naturally use mathematical thinking. They count, compare sizes, measure lengths, recognize shapes, create patterns, and explore balance, symmetry, and spatial relationships.
Concepts such as more and less, taller and shorter, heavier and lighter, and part and whole become meaningful because children are using them in real situations. As children plan, test, and revise their structures, they develop problem-solving skills and logical reasoning that support strong math understanding.
Building also supports early literacy and language development. Children describe their ideas, explain how something works, and use new vocabulary related to shape, position, and function. They label drawings, create plans, and tell stories about what they are building, which strengthens oral language, sequencing, and narrative skills. These experiences help children see language as a tool for thinking and communication.
Through collaborative building, children practice communication and social skills. They negotiate roles, share materials, listen to others’ ideas, and work together toward a shared goal. Children learn to ask questions, give explanations, and reflect on their work, building confidence as communicators.
Engineering and building allow children to think, talk, and create with purpose. By combining hands-on problem-solving with rich language and mathematical thinking, these experiences support deeper learning and help children develop skills they will use across all areas of learning.
Community
Community plays an essential role in a child’s learning and development. When children feel a sense of belonging, they are more confident, secure, and open to learning. Strong community relationships help children learn to trust others, express themselves, and understand that their ideas and contributions matter.
In an early childhood setting, community supports social and emotional growth. Children learn to cooperate, solve problems together, show empathy, and respect different perspectives. These experiences build communication skills, self-regulation, and a sense of responsibility toward others.
Community also strengthens learning. Through shared experiences, collaboration, and meaningful relationships with peers and adults, children learn that knowledge is built together. Family partnerships further enrich this process by creating consistency between home and school and reinforcing shared values.
Within a Christian learning community, relationships are grounded in love, kindness, and service. Children experience what it means to care for one another, practice forgiveness, and contribute positively to their environment.
A strong sense of community helps children grow not only as learners but also as compassionate, connected individuals through Christ.
