Little School
6 weeks—3 years

Little School offers a nurturing environment where children explore at their own pace and developmental level, using open-ended materials. As they grow, learn and build relationships with staff and the children around them, they develop a sense of competence and trust in the world.

Young Toddlers at Little School develop an appreciation for their uniqueness along with a sense of respect for others and themselves. They engage in language, motor, cognitive, social, and emotional development through hands-on exploration and group interactions.

Our Older Toddlers and Young Threes follow their natural curiosity, develop ideas, and learn about their world. We take cues from their individual interests, learning styles, and abilities, with a curriculum focused on the process and foundation of learning, not the resulting product.

It’s all about joy, discovery, friendship, and growth!

Life in the Little School means…

• Singing, moving and shaking in weekly music and movement classes. Little School Partners with East Side Music Together for weekly classes that nurture the musical growth of our youngest learners.
• Participating in campus-wide activities with our older students, like the International Day of Peace.
• Speaking, singing and listening to stories in French and Spanish taught by language specialists from our World Language Department.
• Exploring creative expression through dramatic play, creative block building, outdoor play and mixed media art.
• Listening to stories, poems and fingerplays both in the classroom and in the library.  Weekly library classes are taught by our Lower School Librarian. 
• Caring for, harvesting, and sampling vegetables from the Edible Garden.
• Exploring language with shared reading and writing, nursery rhymes, book making, storytelling and journal “writing.” 
• Learning through discovery and connecting through the community.