Playgroup Class (2—3+ years)
Home to another home!
We welcome children from home to a physically beautiful, emotionally supportive, and carefully structured home-like environment. Warm, home-like classrooms and a beautifully laid-out play yard provide the setting for the playgroup day. Play materials, such as cloths, wooden animals, felt props and puppets, shells, rocks, and other natural materials, are carefully chosen to stimulate creativity.
There is an emphasis on simplicity, homeliness, repetition, imitation, and imagination. A Playgroup daily rhythm includes:
- Circle time: good morning, songs and verses, rhythm games, and ring games.
- Artistic activity: watercolor painting, crayon drawing, play dough modeling, and weaving simple home crafts.
- Storytelling
- Outside play
- Nature walk and care of plants
- Mealtime
- Afternoon nap time
- The children help in caring for the classroom and toys and often take part in snack preparation.
Children learn to be part of a group, interact positively with others, elevated confidence in language and communication. As they grow to 3 years old, the children can grasp introductory arithmetic concepts.