Creative Gardens Ashburn Village

Nope, we don’t have a blast at school! 😏😉

Nope, we don’t have a blast at school! 😏😉

Our friends at Legacy Farms came yesterday to double the size of teaching garden at the school. Legacy is an amazing non-profit that provides real-life occupational therapy and purpose to a special and sensory needs community. We partner with Legacy to provide an inclusive environment for our learners to learn the power of gardening and the importance of sustainable food sources.

Thank you Legacy Farms. Your work is amazing!!

#education #inclusion #inclusive #autism #edtech #childcare #daycare #preschool #learninggarden #teachinggarden #ashburnva #ashburn #loudounmoms

Our friends at Legacy Farms came yesterday to double the size of teaching garden at the school. Legacy is an amazing non-profit that provides real-life occupational therapy and purpose to a special and sensory needs community. We partner with Legacy to provide an inclusive environment for our learners to learn the power of gardening and the importance of sustainable food sources.

Thank you Legacy Farms. Your work is amazing!!

#education #inclusion #inclusive #autism #edtech #childcare #daycare #preschool #learninggarden #teachinggarden #ashburnva #ashburn #loudounmoms

See that fine mist? That is the wonderfully child-safe solution that kills bacteria and virus on every single one of our surfaces! We do this EVERY MORNING. Although thankfully we are seeing drastically lower COVID numbers, our measures stay in place.

#education #covid19 #cleanliness #helpsothervirusestoo #ppe #edtech #loudouncounty #ashburn #ashburnvillage #loudounsbest

Summer Camp is ON!!!! We dove into “Explore the Oceans.” Our campers spent the week solving ocean crisis and ended the week with a trip to the National Aquarium!!! Next up, Maker’s Unite, a deep dive into the art of making!!!!

Summer Camp is ON!!!! We dove into “Explore the Oceans.” Our campers spent the week solving ocean crisis and ended the week with a trip to the National Aquarium!!! Next up, Maker’s Unite, a deep dive into the art of making!!!!

Our Pre-K class was SUPER busy at work in an awesome lesson in color mixing. Students worked with the Montessori color tablets to first match the primary colors, then took to science in mixing colors with colored dye and water lastly using their mixes to make SLIME!!!!

The scaffolding of learning makes our hearts sing! Huge shout out to Ms. Sayoko Glouchkova for knocking it out of the park on this lesson!

Did you know that Creative Gardens and it’s sister brand The Ohana School are built on a foundation of collaboration?

This lesson will become easily accessible to our entire team so that new ideas become inspiration for our network of schools!!

#education #loudounmoms #creativegardens #summer #pbl #montessori #waldorf #reggio #standardsbased #broadapproachtolearning #becausethatshowchildrenlearn

Summer At The Gardens 2021 Has Begun! Here our students being their PBL (Project-Based Learning) assignment to solve the world's top oceanic crisis!

#pbl #oceanlife #letsexploretheocean #letsgo #summer #ashburn #ashburnva #loudounmoms #camp #loudounsbest #bestofnova

Summer At The Gardens 2021 Has Begun! Here our students being their PBL (Project-Based Learning) assignment to solve the world's top oceanic crisis!

#pbl #oceanlife #letsexploretheocean #letsgo #summer #ashburn #ashburnva #loudounmoms #camp #loudounsbest #bestofnova

To all the dads out there, we appreciate you!!!!!

Happy Father’s Day!!

To all the dads out there, we appreciate you!!!!!

Happy Father’s Day!!

Professional development day with Rachel Giannini star of the hit documentary “No Small Matter.”

#education #preschool #daycare #childcare #loudoun #loudounmoms #loudouncounty #loudounsbest

Professional development day with Rachel Giannini star of the hit documentary “No Small Matter.”

#education #preschool #daycare #childcare #loudoun #loudounmoms #loudouncounty #loudounsbest

Summer At The Gardens — Creative Gardens

It’s not too late to sign up for Loudoun’s best summer camp! We have 3.5 acres of outdoor space, a basketball court, splash pad, 4 playgrounds, and all the fun you can imagine! Learn more here!

www.creativegardensva.com/summer-at-the-gardens

#education #summercamp #summer #schoolage #edtech #childcare #daycare #preschool

Summer At The Gardens — Creative Gardens Creative Gardens Summer Camp 2021Combining Project-Based Learning And A Classic Summer Camp Experience! Ages 5 - 12 Beginning June 21st$275 Per Week For Standard Day - (8:30a-3:30p)$325 Per Week Extended Day - (6:30a-6:30p) Please watch our summer camp information presentation! We Know That In Order...

End of School 2021 Water Celebrations! This one of all years will forever be in our hearts. We are so very thankful to past our first milestone of a year while all of your children passed their very own gigantic milestone. THEY SURVIVED A SCHOOL YEAR DURING A PANDEMIC.

A huge thank you to our students, parents, teachers, and staff that went waaaay above and beyond expectations to provide the best Loudoun could ask for.

We will see you for SUMMER AT THE GARDENS! Beginning next week! Let's go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#summer #graduates #2021 #theydidit #childcare #daycare #preschool #education #ashburn #loudounmoms #loudounsbest

Montessori pops up a lot here at Creative Gardens. Our Founder, Garrett Wilhelm is a trained Montessori teacher himself! Although we don’t subscribe to one particular approach as to keep broad to meet the needs of every learner, Montessori’s lessons around early phonetics are highly effective as apparatus to teach symbol and phonetic sound awareness to preschoolers.

Here, Fallon uses the “G” sandpaper letter first reciting the letter sound alongside tracing it either finger. Then, she translates the sense memory to paper writing the letter on paper.

#education #daycare #childcare #loudounmoms #loudounsbest #bestofnova2021

Montessori pops up a lot here at Creative Gardens. Our Founder, Garrett Wilhelm is a trained Montessori teacher himself! Although we don’t subscribe to one particular approach as to keep broad to meet the needs of every learner, Montessori’s lessons around early phonetics are highly effective as apparatus to teach symbol and phonetic sound awareness to preschoolers.

Here, Fallon uses the “G” sandpaper letter first reciting the letter sound alongside tracing it either finger. Then, she translates the sense memory to paper writing the letter on paper.

#education #daycare #childcare #loudounmoms #loudounsbest #bestofnova2021

Wow! Today was amazing! A huge thank you to Leesburg Animal Park for coming out with some WILD friends today!!! We absolutely loved it!!!

#education #animals #friends #preschool #daycare #loudounmoms #loudoun #ashburn #weekendvibes

Wow! Today was amazing! A huge thank you to Leesburg Animal Park for coming out with some WILD friends today!!! We absolutely loved it!!!

#education #animals #friends #preschool #daycare #loudounmoms #loudoun #ashburn #weekendvibes

Here, a Transitional Toddler explores opposites. For this activity, the child experiences opposites from a tactile standpoint with the scrub sponge being rough and the foam paper being smooth. A multi-sensorial experience allows for a deeper retention of knowledge.

#education #edtech #childcare #daycare #preschool #loudounmoms #loudoun #sensorial #montessori #reggio

Here, a Transitional Toddler explores opposites. For this activity, the child experiences opposites from a tactile standpoint with the scrub sponge being rough and the foam paper being smooth. A multi-sensorial experience allows for a deeper retention of knowledge.

#education #edtech #childcare #daycare #preschool #loudounmoms #loudoun #sensorial #montessori #reggio

Letter tracing, this little is working hard on a refined “pincer grip” to really nail it when she moves on to free writing! We practice early to build that hand strength!

#education #edtech #preschool #childcare #daycare #loudounsbest #loudounmoms #letsgo #havefun #math #language #prewriting #tracing

Letter tracing, this little is working hard on a refined “pincer grip” to really nail it when she moves on to free writing! We practice early to build that hand strength!

#education #edtech #preschool #childcare #daycare #loudounsbest #loudounmoms #letsgo #havefun #math #language #prewriting #tracing

Join us this summer for Summer At The Gardens!! Our summer camp is a combination of the classic summer camp vibe we all remember and a project-based learning approach to learning to actually make learning fun!!!

Interested in learning more?

https://www.creativegardensva.com/summer-at-the-gardens

Join us this summer for Summer At The Gardens!! Our summer camp is a combination of the classic summer camp vibe we all remember and a project-based learning approach to learning to actually make learning fun!!!

Interested in learning more?

https://www.creativegardensva.com/summer-at-the-gardens

CREATIVE GARDENS! It's time to show our area whats up! Please vote for us for BEST PRESCHOOL! Every single vote counts and we would love to hold the title of Best Preschool! I know we can do it! LETS GO!!!!!!!!!

Link here: https://washingtonparent.com/washington-parent-picks-2021/#//

CREATIVE GARDENS! It's time to show our area whats up! Please vote for us for BEST PRESCHOOL! Every single vote counts and we would love to hold the title of Best Preschool! I know we can do it! LETS GO!!!!!!!!!

Link here: https://washingtonparent.com/washington-parent-picks-2021/#//

Can you feel summer coming? We can! We opened up our splash pad this week for our littles!!

Interested in a summer with Creative Gardens? Book a tour here:

www.creativegardensva.com/book-a-tour-online

Can you feel summer coming? We can! We opened up our splash pad this week for our littles!!

Interested in a summer with Creative Gardens? Book a tour here:

www.creativegardensva.com/book-a-tour-online

Love is love. Happy Pride Month. We LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!

#pride #lgbtqia #daycare #childcare #Loudoun

Love is love. Happy Pride Month. We LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!

#pride #lgbtqia #daycare #childcare #Loudoun

On Memorial Day we remember the many lives lost in protection of our freedoms. Thank you to every service person across our country and around the world for making the ultimate sacrifice to uphold our nation’s rights and freedoms.

On Memorial Day we remember the many lives lost in protection of our freedoms. Thank you to every service person across our country and around the world for making the ultimate sacrifice to uphold our nation’s rights and freedoms.

Discovering that this bush is prickly!! #sensory #childcare #preschool #daycare #loudoun

Discovering that this bush is prickly!! #sensory #childcare #preschool #daycare #loudoun

As you can plainly see, we don’t have much fun here at Creative Gardens 😆

#creativegardens #preschool #daycare #childcare #montessori #waldorf #reggio #ashburnvillage #loudounmoms #school

As you can plainly see, we don’t have much fun here at Creative Gardens 😆

#creativegardens #preschool #daycare #childcare #montessori #waldorf #reggio #ashburnvillage #loudounmoms #school

Friends! We are pleased to announce the newest member of the Creative Gardens family! Meet Bella Rose Bryant, Ms. Brittannee's newest addition to the Bryant clan! She was born just hours ago!

Friends! We are pleased to announce the newest member of the Creative Gardens family! Meet Bella Rose Bryant, Ms. Brittannee's newest addition to the Bryant clan! She was born just hours ago!

Here we have a 3’s learner doing a pattern recognition exercise. This activity has this little one using fine motor skill to trace each object as well as basic patterning to recognize what is next in the sequence. This is a wonderful precursor to reading and patterning in math.

#math #language #learner #learnercentered #allhavevalue #smartissubjective #preschool #daycare #childcare #loudoun #loundounmoms #loudounsbest #ashburnvillage #ashburn

Here we have a 3’s learner doing a pattern recognition exercise. This activity has this little one using fine motor skill to trace each object as well as basic patterning to recognize what is next in the sequence. This is a wonderful precursor to reading and patterning in math.

#math #language #learner #learnercentered #allhavevalue #smartissubjective #preschool #daycare #childcare #loudoun #loundounmoms #loudounsbest #ashburnvillage #ashburn

We are back for our monthly at home art projects with your kids!

This month we want to introduce you to something called “Open-ended art”

Open-ended art means that a variety of materials are available for children. They choose the materials they want to use, how they want to use them, and what they will make. Often times parents and educators want to see an end product, but the value of open-ended art is a beautiful thing because the child is using their imagination. Their art project doesn’t necessarily have to “look like” anything specific.

🎨Today we have one of our open-ended art projects and you can easily do this at home!

You’ll need:

⭐Paper
⭐Glue
Then literally anything you can find around your home. Have fun, let the kids choose & get creative!
Examples:
⭐Cotton Balls
⭐Buttons
⭐Tape
⭐Leaves
⭐Dry Rice
⭐Paint

Children love open-ended materials because of the possibilities. Using open-ended materials encourages imagination, creativity and problem-solving so their play can be richer and more complex. This kind of play ensures learning and is fun!

#childrenlearning #earlychildhoodeducator #kids #earlychildhoodeducators #reggioinspired #earlychildhoodeducation #toddlerfunlearning #kidsactivities #playmatters #learnthroughplay #mysensoryseekers #letthemexplore #letthembelittle #earlychildhoodarteducation #creativecurriculum #kidswhoexplore #bestpreschool #earlychildhooddevelopment #earlyyearsideas #handsonlearning #earlyyears #simplyplaytime #classroomideas #earlychildhoodlearning #playbasedlearning #learningthroughplay #earlychildhood #earlychildhoodeducationmatters #preschoolcrafts #earlylearning

We are back for our monthly at home art projects with your kids!

This month we want to introduce you to something called “Open-ended art”

Open-ended art means that a variety of materials are available for children. They choose the materials they want to use, how they want to use them, and what they will make. Often times parents and educators want to see an end product, but the value of open-ended art is a beautiful thing because the child is using their imagination. Their art project doesn’t necessarily have to “look like” anything specific.

🎨Today we have one of our open-ended art projects and you can easily do this at home!

You’ll need:

⭐Paper
⭐Glue
Then literally anything you can find around your home. Have fun, let the kids choose & get creative!
Examples:
⭐Cotton Balls
⭐Buttons
⭐Tape
⭐Leaves
⭐Dry Rice
⭐Paint

Children love open-ended materials because of the possibilities. Using open-ended materials encourages imagination, creativity and problem-solving so their play can be richer and more complex. This kind of play ensures learning and is fun!

#childrenlearning #earlychildhoodeducator #kids #earlychildhoodeducators #reggioinspired #earlychildhoodeducation #toddlerfunlearning #kidsactivities #playmatters #learnthroughplay #mysensoryseekers #letthemexplore #letthembelittle #earlychildhoodarteducation #creativecurriculum #kidswhoexplore #bestpreschool #earlychildhooddevelopment #earlyyearsideas #handsonlearning #earlyyears #simplyplaytime #classroomideas #earlychildhoodlearning #playbasedlearning #learningthroughplay #earlychildhood #earlychildhoodeducationmatters #preschoolcrafts #earlylearning

Child Care VA - Parents

Looking for a place to send your kiddo but the pandemic has put you in an extremely tight spot? VA announced an expansion in eligibility for their ChildCare V Aprogram. Creative Gardens is a proud ChildCare VA provider.

Here are the details!
https://www.dss.virginia.gov/cc/parents/index.html?pageID=4

Child Care VA - Parents All parents want to support their child’s health, happiness and development. Choosing quality child care is an excellent way to do this! A quality child care program promotes a safe, fun environment where children can PLAY, LEARN and LAUGH!