Nurturing Global Citizens
We are commited to creating a community of motivated learners on an individualized basis. We serve children 12 months to 5 years of age.
We are open from
Monday to Friday
8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
This is what our preschool will be like
We are open from
Monday to Friday
8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
We focus on whole-child development
Discover our educational philosophy per age group
Infants 3 months – 12 months
Our Infants program prioritizes affection, personalized care, daily multi sensory experiences and a safe but exciting space for discovery, providing a complete environment for babies to thrive and be happy in. Our experienced educators understand that emotional safety comes first for babies, and the importance of respecting each baby’s unique routine and rhythm. Our teachers compliment warmth and fun with rich Thinking Language during play that assure babies wholesome development into autonomous little learners.
A key goal of our educational program is to nurture autonomous, life long learners, because learning autonomy has been proven to be a key determinant of life success. Learning autonomy starts with sparking curiosity and inquisitiveness, from birth! How do we promote inquisitiveness in babies? … Click to read more
We consider all babies as unique individuals with multiple developmental needs. We focus on developing the whole child to his or her unique potential. Every experience is a learning experience carefully crafted by our teachers. We focus on multi-sensory exploration, which naturally develops your baby holistically. … Click to read more
Babies are in constant discovery of how the world works. Teachers actively observe babies’ interests, plan experiences accordingly and guide them to explore these through their senses. They model advanced thinking language to describe the experiences babies … Click to read more
Our VESS curriculum fosters development through strategiies that promote higher level thinking skills. Higher-level thinking refers to our ability to do certain mental processes more efficiently, making us better learners. This ability is fostered by developing what neuro-scientists have called Habits of Mind – a mental process … Click to read more
Creativity and Innovation are at the core of the VESS educational approach. Every moment and learning experience focuses on promoting creativity.Through our Artist of the Month, for example,babies are exposed to artists’ stories, techniques, and how they use colors, shapes and lines uniquely to express their emotions. … Click to read more
All children in our school are seen as global citizens, including our babies. Our babies’ voices are heard as teachers are in tune to their needs, wants, and preferences, and respond to them … Click to read more
Learning autonomy refers to the skills and dispositions needed to be independent in one’s capacity to learn new things – and its development starts at birth! It is seen by neuroscientists as a key determinant of life-long success. the VESS educational approach focuses on developing children’s learning autonomy to be efficient learners for life. … Click to read more
A key goal of our educational program is to nurture autonomous, life long learners … Click to read more
We consider all babies as unique individuals with multiple developmental needs. … Click to read more
Babies are in constant discovery of how the world works. Teachers actively observe … Click to read more
Our VESS curriculum fosters development through strategiies that promote … Click to read more
Creativity and Innovation are at the core of the VESS educational approach … click to read more
All children in our school are seen as global citizens, including our babies. Our babies … Click to read more
Learning autonomy refers to the skills and dispositions needed to be independent … Click to read more
Toddlers
Your once baby is now a Toddler, eager for exploration, independence, and self-expression. An environment that is warm, challenging, safe, exciting and that fosters autonomy and self-esteem is crucial!
Their imagination is at its peak and should be encouraged. This is an important time to challenge their gross motor skills and to develop important cognitive functions.
Our Toddler Program is strategically designed to captivate Toddlers’ innate curiosity and imagination while promoting autonomy. While our hands-on sensory activities surprise them daily and encourage them to explore the world through play, our Thinking Strategies help them comprehend it.
Our experienced educators create a warm environment that prioritizes emotional safety, design a physical space that promotes autonomous exploration; plan exciting activities that surprise Toddlers daily, and use VESS Thinking Strategies to promote deep thinking.
A key goal of our educational program is to nurture autonomous, life long learners, because learning autonomy has been proven to be a key determinant of life success. Learning autonomy starts with sparking curiosity and inquisitiveness, from birth! How do we promote inquisitiveness in toddlers? … Click to read more
We consider all chidren as unique individuals with multiple developmental needs. We focus on developing the whole child to his or her unique potential. Every experience is a learning experience carefully crafted by our teachers. We focus on multi-sensory exploration, which naturally develops your child holistically.… Click to read more
Toddlers are in constant discovery of how the world works. With a school environment that values children’s questions about the world comes an opportunity to promote a scientific mindset. Teachers actively observe our toddlers’ interests, plan experiences accordingly and guide them … Click to read more
Our VESS curriculum fosters development through strategiies that promote higher level thinking skills. Higher-level thinking refers to our ability to do certain mental processes more efficiently, making us better learners. This ability is fostered by developing what neuro-scientists have called Habits of Mind – a mental process that … Click to read more
Creativity and Innovation are at the core of the VESS educational approach. Every moment and learning experience focuses on promoting creativity.Through our Artist of the Month, for example,toddlers explore artists’ stories, techniques, and how they use colors, shapes and lines uniquely to express their emotions. … Click to read more
Toddler years are the foundation to instill in children the habits and values needed to excel in a global society. Toddlers in our school are seen as active participants of our community and global citizens. our teachers focus on making them participant of classroom responsibilities, assign roles, and … Click to read more
Learning autonomy refers to the skills and dispositions needed to be independent in one’s capacity to learn new things. It is seen by neuroscientists as a key determinant of life-long success and academic success, and it’s development starts at birth. …Click to read more
A key goal of our educational program is to nurture autonomous, life long learners … Click to read more
We consider all chidren as unique individuals with multiple developmental needs. … Click to read more
Toddlers are in constant discovery of how the world works. With a school … Click to read more
Our VESS curriculum fosters development through strategiies that promote … Click to read more
Creativity and Innovation are at the core of the VESS educational approach … Click to read more
Toddler years are the foundation to instill in children the habits and values … Click to read more
Learning autonomy refers to the skills and dispositions needed to be independent … Click to read more
Twos
Two year olds are eager for independence and exploration. Their communication skills develop significantly this year, as does their desire for self expression. “self esteem grows significantliy with their capacity to be independent and do hard things,” explains Ms. Daniela, Two’s Teacher of 10 years.
Our Two’s Program focuses on fostering independence while instilling the values of community and collaboration through classroom routines, involving children as classroom helpers, turn taking and sharing. We work with families to identify potty-training readiness and work as a team with the family when ready. We take advantage of the big feelings that come at this age to validate them and introduce strategies to help them regulate big emotions. As their capacity to understand complex language increases, teachers model a rich vocabulary that fosters higuer-level thinking skills. Two year olds enjoy independent play and dramatic play, which provides us with a great opportunity to foster pre-literacy skills. Through our monthly country, artist and Unit of Inquiry, our teachers bring the world to the classroom and plan hands-on, multi-sensory activities that get children’s thinking going and fosters their inquisitive nature. With this strategy we nurture their scientific and mathematical thinking, motor skills, pre-literacy skills, socio-emotional skills and thinking skills in an age-appropriate and engaging manner that maximizes two year olds’ holistic development.
A key goal of our educational program is to nurture autonomous, life long learners, because learning autonomy has been proven to be a key determinant of life success. Learning autonomy starts with sparking curiosity and inquisitiveness – an intrinsic desire to explore, discover and learn. How do we promote inquisitiveness? … Click to read more
We consider all chidren as unique individuals with multiple developmental needs. We focus on developing the whole child to his or her unique potential. Each learning experience is based on our monthly artist, country and unit, and covers multiple developmental … Click to read more
2 year olds are in constant discovery of how the world works. With a school environment that values children’s questions about the world comes an opportunity to promote a scientific mindset. Teachers actively listen to children’s questions and interests and guide them to explore these through a multitude of strategies … Click to read more
Our VESS curriculum fosters development through strategiies that promote higher level thinking skills. Higher-level thinking refers to our ability to do certain mental processes more efficiently, making us better learners. This ability is fostered by developing what neuro-scientists have called Habits of Mind – a mental process that … Click to read more
Creativity and Innovation are at the core of the VESS educational approach. Every moment and learning experience focuses on promoting these abilities, not only in the arts, but in science, mathematics, literacy, and every other developmental area.Through our Artist of the Month, for example, we learn about … Click to read more
“It is amazing to witness how children go from playing by themselves at the beginning of the year, to discussing amongst themselves how to complete an activity together by the end,” – Ms. Daniela, Edu1st. Two’s teacher of 10 years. Two year olds in our school are seen as active participants of our community and global citizens. … Click to read more
Learning autonomy refers to the skills and dispositions needed to be independent in one’s capacity to learn new things. It is seen by neuroscientists as a key determinant of life-long success and academic success. the VESS educational approach focuses on developing children’s learning autonomy to be efficient learners for life. … Click to read more
A key goal of our educational program is to nurture autonomous, life … Click to read more
We consider all chidren as unique individuals with multiple …Click to read more
2 year olds are in constant discovery of how the world works. With a … Click to read more
Our VESS curriculum fosters development through strategiies that … Click to read more
Creativity and Innovation are at the core of the VESS educational … Click to read more
“It is amazing to witness how children go from playing by themselves at … Click to read more
Learning autonomy refers to the skills and dispositions needed to be …Click to read more
Threes
As your little one turns Three, their inquisitive mind is more active than ever. Important developmental changes occur, including a shift from parallel (or independent) play to shared play, and they have an increased ability for independence, comprehension and verbal expression. Our PK3 Program takes advantage of three year olds’ eagerness for discovery and contribution and places children in an environment built to potentiate each child.
Our PK3 Program continues to focus on whole-child development, so there is a more evident focus on school-readiness skills, yet emotional education, inquisitiveness, scientific thinking, citizenship, creativity and innovation, and high-level thinking skills are equally nurtured.
Though pre-reading and pre-writing skills were fostered in our Two’s program, three year olds are now ready to take them a step further. We work on fine motor skills for writing. We focus on letter phonics (how letters sound), which is proven to facilitate children’s reading and writing process. Mathematical concepts like number sense (the understanding of what a number means and the concept of quantity), patterns, sequences, and geometry in the real world, are all a strong focus of our program towards school readiness, and we do so through exciting and meaningful learning experiences that fosters children’s desires to WANT to learn.
Our Teachers take a “mentor” role, and our small group set-up encourages the sharing of ideas and teamwork. Our main goal is autonomous little learners with the tools and desire to discover the world! Read ahead to learn the details of our VESS educational approach for 3 year olds.
A key goal of our educational program is to nurture autonomous, life long learners, because learning autonomy has been proven to be a key determinant of life success. Learning autonomy starts with sparking curiosity and inquisitiveness – an intrinsic desire to explore, discover and learn. How do we promote inquisitiveness? … Click to read more
We consider all chidren as unique individuals with multiple developmental needs. We focus on developing the whole child to his or her unique potential. Each learning experience is based on our monthly artist, country and unit, and covers multiple developmental areas simultaneously, including mathematics, literacy, science, and art, but … Click to read more
At 3 years of age, children increase their capacity to express verbally and pose questions about the world around them. What an exciting time! With a school environment that values children’s questions about the world comes an opportunity to promote a scientific mindset. …Click to read more
Our VESS curriculum teachers academic content and fosters development through strategiies that promote higher level thinking skills. Higher-level thinking refers to our ability to do certain mental processes more efficiently, making us better learners. This ability is fostered by developing what neuro-scientists have called Habits of Mind – a mental process that … Click to read more
Creativity and Innovation are at the core of the VESS educational approach. Every moment and learning experience focuses on promoting these abilities, not only in the arts, but in science, mathematics, literacy, and every other developmental area. As three year olds focus more evidently in school-readiness skills … Click to read more
As two year olds turn three, there is a developmental shift from individual play (or parallel play) to shared play. This marks the beginning of an important mindset shift between two and three year olds. Three year olds are active participants of our school community and are seen as global citizens capable of adding value to our world. … Click to read more
Learning autonomy refers to the skills and dispositions needed to be independent in one’s capacity to learn new things. It is seen by neuroscientists as a key determinant of life-long success and academic success. the VESS educational approach focuses not only in learning academic content but in … Click to read more
A key goal of our educational program is to nurture autonomous, life … click to read more
We consider all chidren as unique individuals with multiple … click to read more
At 3 years of age, children increase their capacity to express verbally … click to read more
Our VESS curriculum teachers academic content and fosters … click to read more
Creativity and Innovation are at the core of the VESS educational … click to read more
As two year olds turn three, there is a developmental shift from… click to read more
Learning autonomy refers to the skills and dispositions needed to be … click to read more
Pk4 – Pk5 (VPK)
Our goals for PK4/5 go beyond preparation for Elementary School and into developing Thinking skills that promote their creativity, out of the box thinking, deep understanding, and problem-solving. We do so by promoting each child’s unique passions and needs in a space with multiple learning setups that respond to various interests and complement this with research-based Thinking Strategies to challenge them intellectually and promote deep comprehension.
We develop autonomous, adaptable kindergarteners with the tools to build fulfilling and balanced lives beyond school.
We offer FREE VPK during the school year and FREE Summer VPK.
A key goal of our educational program is to nurture autonomous, life long learners, because learning autonomy has been proven to be a key determinant of academic and life success. Children under our PK4-5 program learn through asking, learn through doing, learn through thinking and learn with eagerness!… Click to read more
We consider all chidren as unique individuals with multiple developmental needs. While school readiness is a priority, we focus on developing the whole child to his or her unique potential. Each learning experience is based on our monthly artist, country and unit, and covers multiple developmental areas simultaneously, including mathematics, literacy, science, and art… Click to read more
Teachers guide children to explore their questions about the world through a multitude of strategies that develop scientific and mathematical skills that far surpass school readiness standards. Scientific processes also teach children about risk taking, persistence, teamworkd, careful observation and objectivity. … Click to read more
Our VESS curriculum teachers academic content and fosters development through strategiies that promote higher level thinking skills. Higher-level thinking refers to our ability to do certain mental processes more efficiently, making us better learners. This ability is fostered by developing what neuro-scientists have called Habits of Mind – a mental process … Click to read more
Creativity and Innovation are at the core of the VESS educational approach. Every moment and learning experience focuses on promoting these abilities, not only in the arts, but in science, mathematics, literacy, and every other developmental area. While our PK4-5 program focuses strongly in school-readiness skills … Click to read more
Children are active participants of our school community and are seen as global citizens capable of adding value to our world. Our PK4-5 program strongly encourages independence, collaboration, and friendship, crucial skills for life in elementary school. Our teachers focus on making them participant of classroom responsibilities … click to read more
Learning autonomy refers to the skills and dispositions needed to be independent in one’s capacity to learn new things. It is seen by neuroscientists as a key determinant of life-long success and academic success in school. the VESS educational approach focuses not only in learning academic content but … click to read more
A key goal of our educational program is to nurture autonomous, life long learners … Click to read more
We consider all chidren as unique individuals with multiple developmental needs.. … Click to read more
Teachers guide children to explore their questions about the world… Click to read more
Our VESS curriculum teachers academic content and fosters … Click to read more
Creativity and Innovation are at the core of the VESS educational … Click to read more
Children are active participants of our school community and are seen … Click to read more
Learning autonomy refers to the skills and dispositions needed to be … Click to read more
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If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us
(786) 522-2263