preschool
[sprouts]
Sprouts Preschool provides full-day and half-day preschool for children ages 2 years – 6 years. Sprouts Preschool is designed as a three-year program within a small mixed-age community in a nature-based setting.
"[Our daughter] has a new found appreciation of the outdoors, loves being barefoot, and her creativity and independent play skills have soared."."
-A Sprouts Family
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"Thank you' doesn't really seem sufficient, but I truly cannot thank you enough for all you have done for our family in the past 2.5 years. It has been such a gift to have this experience at Sprouts and we are so lucky!
What you've created at Sprouts is so special & I can't begin to express how much is has meant to me seeing [our son]'s growth over the years. You have been so wonderful to us and have been such a place of calm, safety, and love as I've too grown and adapted as a mom. I could go on forever about how much I respect and value you both."
-A Sprouts Family
Preschool Programs
Sprouts preschool offers three program options and has two classrooms with a school maximum of 18 kids in mixed-age groups from 2 years - 6 years old.
Our 18 total kids generally operate as a single class, especially when we are outside. All kids participate in art projects, stories, and nature activities.
Our art projects are process-based - building creativity, familiarizing ourselves with our unique voices, and experimenting with many types of 'making our mark' on the world.
Our nature studies are inspired by real-time experiences on our nature playground. We look more carefully at flowers or snow to learn more about it.
Outside play is a huge part of the Sprouts day! We get outside in all kinds of weather and, in nice weather, spend the whole day outdoors! We get messy in the mud pit, dance in the sprinkler, discover insects in the garden, build forts in the snow, and sing in the rain.
On our 7,000 sq ft nature playground, kids have free access to take risks and build confidence, imagine and create with loose parts, and build a love of nature that will last a lifetime.
What Makes Sprouts Preschool even more Unique?
Each family and student brings something special to any preschool experience.
Many Sprouts kids are intense, boisterous, and free-thinking. Many are also imaginative, observant, and rational. Messy, loud, neat, and quiet – Sprouts provides a place for all preschoolers to be successful.
Some families come to Sprouts looking for an experience outside of the typical structured school environment. Some families place importance on the nature aspect of Sprouts. Others find comfort in the consistency of teachers and classmates or the nurturing community of mixed-age groups.
As an urban nature school families come to Sprouts from all over. Some children come from farms, from suburbs, and from the local neighborhood. We are celebrating the accessible nature that surrounds us wherever we go and embracing each child's unique experiences with nature.
As a small employee-owned school, Caity & Ellen have the freedom to adapt. We create curriculum, projects, and schedules best suited to each specific group of children: their interests, their real-time local nature experiences, and their talents, abilities, needs, and development. We are constantly adjusting the environment, the toys and equipment, and even the lunch menu to better suit our group each year.
As a small school with limited families enrolled, each child and family play a big part in the Sprouts experience.
"Thank you so much for all the love and care you provide [our daughter]. Sprouts is everything we could have hoped for in her first experience out of the house. We love how much her imagination can run wild there."
-A Sprouts Family