why choose the wildflower school?

We guarantee a safe and rich learning environment for each of the young learners in our community. Our care structure is based on five value pillars, including Belonging, Diversity, Sustainability, Exploration, and Engagement. We promise to encourage curiosity, independence and compassion, and to help our little ones flourish through their successes and mistakes. 

We believe that children are capable, rich, and full of potential. We know that they have something to say. Our goal is to foster our students' important voices through a culture of conversation. We give students the respect and opportunity to communicate, ask questions, and participate in their own investigation and learning. We work WITH students by giving them the autonomy to solve problems independently and together, without being given the answers we assume are correct. We cultivate intrinsic motivation, where students have ownership over their own experiences and learning, and through which information and new learning really sticks. We honor our students by asking questions, and listening. 

We believe in and encourage academic curiosity and base much of our curriculum approach on both the Reggio Emilia and Waldorf philosophies. At The Wildflower School, children will be met at their level, not pushed beyond their readiness. Through curricula that promote growth in academics, life-skills, and social/emotional skills, we guarantee whole-child development. We are dedicated to an integrated educational program which includes mathematics, early literacy, writing, health and wellness, Spanish exposure, music, dramatic play, fine motor skills, food preparation, art, animal care, science, early geography, community building, and conflict resolution. 

We believe that the children are innately curious about the world around them. This inquiry fuels a longing for knowledge. We seek to foster and celebrate a community that seeks truth and knowledge through questioning and discovery. In this process, the learner is passionately engaged in acquiring his or her education by researching problems, collecting data with their senses, proposing theories and creating new meaning. Far from a pre-prescribed curriculum, we are most interested in fostering a community that is delighted by curiosity.

Our program is tailored towards preparing our young learners for a seamless transition into Kindergarten. Our founder and lead teacher has a decade of experience teaching lower elementary school, predominantly in Kindergarten. We are committed to helping each of our students become ready for the exciting new challenges of school. 

Our teachers are highly educated and trained to facilitate a rich, caring, and supportive community for each of our students. Our director is a fully credentialed, veteran teacher with a decade of experience in education, and our lead teachers have extensive experience in early childhood education. Our teachers are committed to life-long curiosity and learning. 

Our student to teacher ratio is capped at eight to one (though can be less). Each of our students receives targeted one-on-one time with their teachers, as well as lots of opportunity for collaboration and play. 

Our school was founded with a high standard of environmental awareness. We have built a nature-based program with an emphasis on exploration. Our green curriculum includes learning about growing, farming, food preparation, composting, recycling and waste procedures. Our goal is for our school to be as sustainable as possible, and we will continue to grow and develop towards environmental sustainability. We avoid all single-use snacks and products, and reduce our waste as much as we can day to day. 

Health and wellness are critical life-long pursuits. We practice yoga, dance, free play, gross motor skill activities, and many more types of movement. We practice culinary skills by making and preparing much of our own food, and focus on primary components of nutrition. Our students learn all about the human body, what makes it move and what we need to do to take care of it. 

We care for and cultivate life in many forms at The Wildflower School. We have two indoor classroom pets as well as outdoor animals with whom we practice care, hard work, and respect. We also nurture and care for indoor personal plants and an outdoor garden. These opportunities allow children to build responsibility for living things as well as an attachment and commitment to the Earth. 

While we are not a language immersion school, we practice intentional language exposure in several forms. We learn basic words and phrases in Spanish and practice them interchangeably with their English parallels in school. We also learn basic sign language and use those skills to communicate simple requests and needs.