What is your teaching philosophy?

At Adventures Preschool, we believe that children learn most effectively through play in a carefully prepared environment.  By keeping our adult to child ratio low, we are able to provide a rich experience for the children.  Under the guidance of the teachers and parents, children learn to make decisions, develop social skills, strengthen language skills, build creativity and imagination, foster large and small motor development, and improve self-control.  These skills, our primary focus at Adventures Preschool, are crucial for success in school.   

Children at Adventures Preschool also build important academic skills through daily activities—such as, cooking, art, games, science/sensory experiences and music.  For example, instead of doing worksheets on counting, children might count the number of cups of flour that go into the banana muffins for snack that day.  While they are preparing snack, they can also study the recipe and talk about how letters are used or strengthen their small motor skills by mashing the banana.  For beginning science concepts, they can talk about how a banana changes when it gets mashed or what the baking soda in the recipe will do.  Because an adult is present, children also have the opportunity to learn new vocabulary words, ask questions, practice assertiveness or learn about taking turns.

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