The Aspen Grove Philosophy
Inspired by the aspen tree’s unique community root system, Aspen Grove Preschool operates under the belief that all living things are interconnected in a local, natural, and global community. We strive to create a learning environment that fosters relationships between families, children, and teachers as equal contributing members of a child’s learning experience. We strive to support the family unit.
The Aspen Grove Approach to Teaching and Learning
At Aspen Grove, preschoolers learn through play. It is the way that young children discover, interpret and come to understand the world. Through both independent and cooperative play, children explore, test ideas, acquire information and draw their own conclusions. Our classroom is an environment with opportunities for active exploration and involvement. Teachers create stimulating learning centers both indoors and outdoors designed for different developmental activities including art, reading, writing, listening, dramatic play, building and using manipulatives, music and sensory exploration. A theme or project of the student’s choosing is always present. Past projects have included: Pets, Bakery, How Animals Prepare for Winter, The Ocean, and My Family.
The Aspen Grove Mission
Inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach, Aspen Grove proudly interprets and adapts Reggio theory throughout our school and our day. We share a vision and mission; namely the “primacy effect” that the earliest events in life are the most important and formative ones and are the critical determinants of the long course of development. The focused yet flexible nature of our project based curriculum opens the doors to possibilities and divergent paths for each child to continually become exactly who they are. Each child’s intellectual, emotional, social, and moral potentials are carefully cultivated and guided. The principal educational vehicle involves children in long-term engrossing projects, which are carried out in a beautiful, engaging, love-filled setting.
A significant quote by Jerome Bruner
"I have come increasingly to recognize that most settings are a communal activity, a sharing of the culture. It is not just that the child must make his knowledge his own, but that he must make it his own in a community of those who share his sense of belonging to a culture. It is this that leads me to emphasize not only discovery and invention but the importance of negotiating and sharing in a world, of joint culture creating an object of schooling and as an appropriate step en route to becoming a member of the adult society in which one lives out one’s life."
Inspired by the aspen tree’s unique community root system, Aspen Grove Preschool operates under the belief that all living things are interconnected in a local, natural, and global community. We strive to create a learning environment that fosters relationships between families, children, and teachers as equal contributing members of a child’s learning experience. We strive to support the family unit.
The Aspen Grove Approach to Teaching and Learning
At Aspen Grove, preschoolers learn through play. It is the way that young children discover, interpret and come to understand the world. Through both independent and cooperative play, children explore, test ideas, acquire information and draw their own conclusions. Our classroom is an environment with opportunities for active exploration and involvement. Teachers create stimulating learning centers both indoors and outdoors designed for different developmental activities including art, reading, writing, listening, dramatic play, building and using manipulatives, music and sensory exploration. A theme or project of the student’s choosing is always present. Past projects have included: Pets, Bakery, How Animals Prepare for Winter, The Ocean, and My Family.
The Aspen Grove Mission
Inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach, Aspen Grove proudly interprets and adapts Reggio theory throughout our school and our day. We share a vision and mission; namely the “primacy effect” that the earliest events in life are the most important and formative ones and are the critical determinants of the long course of development. The focused yet flexible nature of our project based curriculum opens the doors to possibilities and divergent paths for each child to continually become exactly who they are. Each child’s intellectual, emotional, social, and moral potentials are carefully cultivated and guided. The principal educational vehicle involves children in long-term engrossing projects, which are carried out in a beautiful, engaging, love-filled setting.
A significant quote by Jerome Bruner
"I have come increasingly to recognize that most settings are a communal activity, a sharing of the culture. It is not just that the child must make his knowledge his own, but that he must make it his own in a community of those who share his sense of belonging to a culture. It is this that leads me to emphasize not only discovery and invention but the importance of negotiating and sharing in a world, of joint culture creating an object of schooling and as an appropriate step en route to becoming a member of the adult society in which one lives out one’s life."
