Wooden Fish Preschool

Our Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide exceptional care to children while fostering each child's intellectual, social, physical, and moral development in a safe and nurturing environment.

Wooden Fish Preschool provides children ages 2-12 years in our day program a welcoming space where their social, emotional, physical and intellectual skills are creatively nurtured through a play-based curriculum. We provide safe, stable care for families who want to encourage their children’s development in a setting that honors diversity and respects the environment in collaboration with families and the greater community. We also have an after school program that is available for youth 7-18 years with our partnering Non-Profit Wooden Fish Parents First.

CURRICULUM

Our purposeful play curriculum is the centerpiece of each classroom:

Teachers create rich learning environments full of art, objects, activities and tools designed to ignite the imagination of children.
Teachers observe children’s interests, their talents and their challenges and design the curriculum each year to meet the needs of the children.
Teachers join children on adventures of exploration.
Children are allowed to construct their own knowledge through experimentation.
Children form a classroom community and hone their social emotional skills in relationship with other children through: creating classroom rules, negotiating through conflict, persisting through challenging tasks, and learning to work as a team.
Teachers build literacy rich classrooms with reading and writing opportunities that are embedded in children’s play.
Children spend hours each day engaging in outside play in our large backyard.