Grow and learn through free play and movement.

Explorer learners grow together into a close-knit, caring community. When children play, work, learn and grow together, they learn much more than any of them could learn alone!

Explorer Learners

  1. Enjoy uninterrupted free play.

  2. Move and explore safely with autonomy and freedom.

  3. Learn community and personal care routines.

  4. Master hands-on, Montessori-inspired sensory works.

Toddlers are beginning to master balance, coordination and reasoning, and they want to challenge themselves to do important, meaningful work: preparing and serving food, cleaning up, helping others and more. These experiences lay the foundation for the skilled adults they will become.

Environment

  1. A safe and stimulating environment for walking, climbing, and developing physical abilities. Furniture specially designed for your child to use without direct help from adults at every stage of their gross motor development. This structured play also aids emotional expression and builds confidence. offer new possibilities

  2. Child-sized tools that fit their tiny hands allow them to prepare a snack and serve it to friends. A miniature broom empowers them to clean up on their own. Each child learns the skills of self-care and toilet training.

  3. We surround your child with rich and stimulating conversation - in both Spanish and English - to support this once-in-a-lifetime period of rapid language development.

  4. The calm atmosphere and lack of distraction helps each child to develop impulse control and concentration, planting the seeds for learning in this classroom and beyond.

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Guiding Principles

  1. Free play as a fundamental need of the child;

  2. The value of independent activity as the main source of learning;

  3. The value of a loving relationship in an appropriate environment;

  4. The need to promote awareness of oneself and one's environment;

  5. Physical and emotional security as the basis for their development;

  6. Curiosity and the power of their absorbing mind (Montessori); and

  7. The importance of good physical health.