Overview

Our Junior Kindergarten program is thoughtfully structured to encourage flexible learning, open-ended discovery, creativity, independence, decision-making, and problem solving. Learning and play are intertwined to create an intellectually stimulating yet relaxed program. Skills for social interaction, negotiation, turn-taking, friendship building, and self care are modeled and practiced throughout each day. Children investigate and interact at their own speed and developmental level. As they work in the classroom with blocks or with puzzles, they are exploring important mathematical skills such as spatial relations, measurement, or symmetry. During story time and literacy time, they develop strong vocabulary and pre-reading skills. Outside, students explore our campus, visit with our animals, build and create structures from found materials, and work on their gross motor skills through running, jumping, lifting and climbing.