One World Learning (Owl) Playschool

WHAT IS O.W.L. PLAYSCHOOL ALL ABOUT?
An amazing Reggio Emilia influenced Group Family Day Care where your child will have a great time learning how to learn

"Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered for himself, that child is kept from inventing it and, consequently, from understanding it completely." - Jean Piaget

Our Philosophy

International interest in Italy's Reggio Emilia schools exploded when Newsweek
magazine dubbed them "the best preschools in the world" in 1991. The beautiful philosophy has many educational concepts we value deeply at One World Learning and it inspires our important work with children.

We have:
- Faith in parents: To be informed and cooperative members of the team
- Faith in children: To be interested in what is worth knowing
- Faith in teachers: To solicit multiple points of view, respecting children where they are on their learning journey

We are:
+a team that is fully CPR and First Aid/AED Certified
+a school that is open all year round

We believe:
- Children are born with rights
- Children are competent
- Children use many "languages" to communicate their experience
- Children are not empty vessels to fill with facts, and dates but come to school with ideas, preferences and hypotheses to explore
- In the child as protagonist, collaborator, and communicator
- Children learn best through loving, authentic relationships
- Child development and current brain research best informs our practice In New York's Early Learning Standards and being ready for all styles of Kindergartens but with a spirit of joyfulness that promotes curiosity, problem-solving and open mindedness for a lifetime of learning

We support:
- Emergent curricula that comes from children's ideas, thoughts and observations
- Documentation as communication (pictures, quotes, journals, projects, portfolios)
-The teacher as researcher, partner, nurturer and guide
- The environment as a "third teacher", aesthetically -pleasing and connected to nature as it is our favorite place to be..
- Play and playfulness

We aim:
- For peaceful, unhurried childhoods and parent-hoods
- To be connected with the natural world, the harmony in music and dynamics found in celebrating multi-cultural-ism
- For "Nothing Without Joy!"
All of our teachers are First Aid and CPR/AED Trained
We are open all Year long