Our approach is based from what we feel is best from different pedagogies : the Reggio Emilia approach, the HighScope Curriculum, and the official French/Belgian "programme de competences maternelle"

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At La Maternelle de Seattle, we use the HighScope curriculum. Beginning with the Perry Preschool Study, HighScope revolutionized early childhood education with a new approach to teaching and learning. Research based and child focused, the HighScope Curriculum uses a carefully designed process called “active learning ” — to achieve powerful, positive outcomes.

Children will make up their plan daily : where/what/how do they plan on working.

They will have then 45 minutes of uninterrupted play/work time to accomplish their plan, and will then share their plans with their teacher and classmate (recall).

After attending the Regio Emilia international study group in Italy in 2018, and having the honor of visiting teachers and classrooms there, we truly believe the  importance of the classroom as third teacher, the need for children to experience diverse mediums to learn to express themselves, trough guided provocations set up by the teacher. Children are natural learners, but still need the gentle and loving direction from a teacher to fully develop their potentials.

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“We love to get our little hands busy” and yes, sometimes dirty too! We will be making a lot of arts and crafts projects throughout the year. Cooking, using produce from our vegetable garden, will be a big part of our learning too!

We maintain a low teacher-child ratio to have a successful immersion program, and our teacher is a French native speaker who will communicate with the children 90% of the time exclusively in French, 10% in English.