Welcome to The Children's Garden Preschool~ a beautiful place to play, learn and grow.
Operating as usual
12/01/2024
The Children's Garden's Holiday Faire is just around the corner!
This Saturday, December 7th, from 11am to 2:30pm is the date.
Our sweet and festive holiday event is especially for children aged 2 to 7 years. Everyone is welcome! Admission is FREE. Activities and shopping are for purchase.
The Holiday Faire features an holiday artist market, school store with handmade toys, holiday gifts for home, children's and parent books, child aprons, and more; a cafe with sweet and savory treats along with warm beverages for children and adults, children's games, face painting, and the always-anticipated "Wee Folk Faerie Shoppe" - an enchanting place for children to do their own holiday shopping!
The Holiday Faire is a family and staff volunteer-run event that benefits The Children's Garden. We look forward to seeing everyone!
11/01/2024
**FALL YARD SALE & BAKE SALE**
TOMORROW, November 2nd
8AM to 2PM
486 Park Ave SE Atlanta GA 30312
~Yard sale preview below, for a sampling of some of the goods~
All proceeds go to The Children's Garden. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit, registered public charity.
CASH or VENMO accepted
10/27/2024
Next Saturday, NOVEMBER 2nd, we are having a sidewalk & indoor yard sale! The storage room is being cleared out and we have some unneeded gems to unload.
The sale starts at 8am and is set to wrap up at 2pm, unless we sell everything eariler!
CASH & Venmo are accepted.
Please email [email protected] for any questions or needs for information.
The sale will be held rain or shine!
07/21/2024
The Children's Garden is hiring!
Do you have a pioneering spirit? We are a Waldorf-inspired morning program seeking very warm, enthusiastic candidates with experience working with 2 to 3 year olds. Our school is a mostly outdoor environment, so candidates need to be easily comfortable in all the seasons outside.
We have one assistant teacher position open for next year that we are ready to fill NOW (hiring, training, and early start) -
* Wednesday mornings 8:15am - 1:15pm (and if interested and available, being "on call" as our substitute teacher
* Salaried position with paid holidays, school breaks and inclement weather days (average is $15-20/hour)
* Paid training
* Mentoring and professional development
Interested in applying? Email us to learn more about this employment opportunity [email protected]
07/21/2024
Follow us on Instagram! We post more frequently there and love to share little snaps and clips of our wonderful children in their activities! ❤️
“There is a big difference in whether or not one has a child grow up with fairy tales. The soul-stirring nature of fairy-tale pictures becomes evident only later on. If fairy tales have not been given, this shows itself in later years in weariness of life, in boredom. Indeed, it even comes to expression physically: fairy tales can help counter illnesses. What is absorbed little by little by means of fairy tales emerges subsequently as joy in life, in the meaning of life — it comes to light in the ability to cope with life, even into old age. Children must experience the power inherent in fairy tales while young, when they can still do so. Whoever is not capable of living with ideas that have no reality for the physical plane “dies” for the spiritual world.”
— Rudolf Steiner
05/16/2024
Recipe for preserving childhood 🌳🌸🌤🦗🐕🏞
03/27/2024
Space remains in our Starlings (two's) and Robins & Owls (mixed age, three to five's) classes for next year.
Join us at The Children's Garden's next Open House on April 27th at 10AM! Experience the joy, warmth and magic in our special school. Meet and engage with our teachers and staff, participate in some little "demos" from our wholesome weekly activities, and hear about the meaningful, rhythmic days and weeks the children in our school experience! There will be time spent in our beautiful classrooms, and outdoors, on the play yard and outdoor classroom area.
If you are interested in attending, we kindly request you make a reservation by emailing us at [email protected]. Space is limited.
Feel free to contact us with questions if you need more information! We look forward to meeting you and your child!
01/05/2024
Prospective Families interested in enrolling for the 2024-2025 school year, please check out our website for all the up-to-date information on upcoming 24-25 enrollment, March open house day, 24-25 tuition & fees, our 24-25 class offerings and of course, our learning philosophy.
Join us at The Children's Garden's Open House Day! Experience the joy, warmth and magic in our special school. Meet and engage with our teachers and staff, participate in some little "demos" from our wholesome weekly activities, and hear about the meaningful, rhythmic days and weeks the children in our school experience! There will be time spent in our beautiful classrooms, and outdoors, on the play yard and outdoor classroom area.
If you are interested in attending, we kindly request you make a reservation by emailing us at [email protected]
Space is limited.
Feel free to contact us with questions if you need more information! We look forward to seeing you and having the opportunity to meet you and your child, while sharing what we offer.
The Children’s Garden’s core, whole-child, holistic approach to the joyful way of “learning through living” is our primary goal. For fifteen years, we have been meeting children in warmth, genuine understanding and with kind and firm guidance. In addition to loving teachers trained and experienced in living arts curriculum, our school embodies a natural and rhythmic, calm, warm, home-like environment for children to experience the world at their own pace and learn through their senses.
We practice a relationship-based care model that complements home life and provides a learning environment in which your child will flourish. We recognize that human relationship and activity are essential tools for all foundational skills for life. Like our community of parents, extended family and caregivers, we share a love of children and a belief that all children should be nurtured and honored while being guided and given time and space to grow. We feel the ideal means to provide this for a child in the preschool setting is in small groups, with an emphasis on experience and process. Each class takes on the feel of and connection to a little village – children viewing themselves as friends and members of a caring community. Our teachers create opportunities for children to satisfy their natural curiosity and immersion into joyful learning, all while “setting up children for success” as they deepen their capacities, fostering self-esteem and confidence.
Children in our program benefit from regular daily, weekly and monthly rhythms (schedule/flow) that they need. Rhythms help children learn to adapt to daily routines and respond beautifully to consistency and repetition. This practice provides the children a supportive and secure environment to explore and develop their independence. The sense of certainty a child experiences in this way allows him or her the time, space and freedom to reach their capabilities.
Along with vigorous, healthy imaginative indoor and outdoor play and sensory stimulation, these are the kinds of things that provide the brain activity needed for higher learning—language development, dexterity, math skills, social skills, and creative thinking—skills that are in very high demand today:
- A variety of experiential and sensorial opportunities are offered through creative play, household tasks, weekly baking & food preparation, nature exploration, water play, stories, puppetry, artistic expression through handwork and craft, painting, singing, foreign language in the older class, and movement according to age appropriateness.
- The movement/play portion of the curriculum is a planned and deliberate component of our early childhood program. It emphasizes child-initiated activities that allow and promote healthy musculo-skeletal development by providing opportunities for unstructured, spontaneous movement in a protected environment. Games, yoga and finger-plays are also an important part of the movement curriculum as they provide opportunities for the children to imitate healthy movement, develop proprioception and increase both their small and large motor skills.
- Expanded outdoor exploration — Children need more than the “playground” experience. They need “wide open places” as so aptly described in the book The Geography of Childhood by Nabhan and Trimble. Building forts, climbing trees and going on nature walks are valued experiences at The Children’s Garden. The children go outside in all but the most inclement weather in order to help them become more robust and strengthen their bond with the environment in which they live. Plants, gardening, and animal life are part of the outdoor experience wherever possible.
- Preacademic skills — The foundation for reading, math and sciences is found in practical life activity and the play of the children, which mimics it.
To learn more about our school, please call us, attend our UPCOMING Open House Day (February 1st, 2020) or call to schedule a visit during the times of year we are enrolling (usually February to September each year). We are a 501 (c) (3) public charity and do greatly invest in our relationship and service to our community of families, staff, alumni and with the community at large.
Our graduates leave us very well prepared to transition into Kindergarten or First Grade and attend public schools in the City of Atlanta and Dekalb County Systems, as well as several independent schools in the Atlanta Area including The Waldorf School of Atlanta, The Garden School of Marietta, The Paideia School, The Children’s School of Midtown Atlanta and The Friends School of Atlanta.
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