About Us
Our Mission
Our mission is to build our community with confident learners by providing children with quality enriched experiences to develop self confidence, independence, problem solving, cognitive and social skills. We strive to create a safe, nurturing and developmentally appropriate environment which fosters the individual needs of each student.
Our staff views education as a meaningful partnership between parents and teachers. We believe it is essential to develop a good rapport with each child and parent based on open communication and mutual respect. This is the foundation of a successful school experience. Here at Little Sprouts, we believe in empowering children by offering them opportunities to make decisions and solve problems.
It is our goal that children will possess confidence in their abilities and establish lasting relationships with teachers and peers. By offering an engaging curriculum it is our aspiration that each child will develop a positive outlook towards school, a better appreciation of the world around them and acquire a life long love for learning during their time spent with us at Little Sprouts.
At Little Sprouts we provide an educational environment which:
• Encourages creativity, interest and joy of learning through a “hands-on” approach by using a multi sensory approach in both teacher directed and child driven lessons.
• Enhances language and literacy through meaningful dialogues between adults and children, listening and discussing stories, participating in group play and promoting language experienced activities.
• Develop social thinking and reasoning skills by guiding them to resolve peer conflicts using vocabulary and positive behavior.
• Development of both fine and gross motor skills. Fine motor skill development may be exercised through artwork, scissor use, block building and cooking. Gross motor activities may include running, jumping, balancing and dancing.
Our School
Our school encompasses 4 bright and visually stimulating classrooms children thrive in. All of the learning experiences for children at Little Sprouts are not limited to each defined classroom. Integrated learning happens everyday in spacious rooms at any given moment including outdoor play and special events. Connections and academic growth are made regardless of which room they are presently in. Throughout the day children will be engaged in activities that will enhance the learning of language arts, math, science, art & music.
Language
Language arts encourages the development and stimulation of english language skills. Group discussions (both large and small group settings), developing listening skills, awareness of print, rhyming, development of vocabulary, letter recognition and sound, retelling of stories and emergent writing skills are just some of the learning experiences that happen at Little Sprouts. These skills provide the foundation for learning to read and write for later academic achievement.
Math
Mathematical thinking is incorporated into block play and dramatic play as well as using concrete objects and manipulatives for a meaningful purpose. Number sense, measurement, more than, less than, sorting by attributes, categorizing like objects, patterning, shapes and spatial sense are just a few learning experiences that take place at Little Sprouts.
Science
Inquiry and exploration are fundamental to all the sciences. Our science lessons promotes discovery and investigation, predictions and observations on hands-on science experiments. At Little Sprouts we use simple tools appropriately to extend observations, hands-on exploration of life sciences, living things in their environment, physical sciences like cause and effect and position and motion of objects.
Art-Music
Here at Little Sprouts our interactive approach focuses on promoting challenging and stimulating art experiences. Exploring Visual Arts through the use of a variety of materials and media to exploring the sounds made by various rhythm instruments and marching and dancing to various tempos and dynamics, art and music exploration is fun and exciting. Curiosity, expressiveness and creativity in both music and art are fundamental preschool learning experiences.
Safety
The concern of our students is our main priority. 2 fire extinguishers are located in the main hallway of the school.
Our school is locked at all times and our front door has a bell entry. No one is permitted into the school without proper identification.
All staff has completed a criminal background check and sex offender search.
No child will be released without parental consent. Please call the main office if other arrangements need to be made.
Our staff is certified in Pediatric CPR, AED and First Aid by the American Safety and Health Institute.
