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What to expect at our Newbury Park home Playschool.
A gentle invitation for childhood curiosity to bloom.
At The Maker’s Garden, our days unfold naturally through creativity, connection, and play. The day begins in our classroom space where children move freely while collaborating with peers or engaging in parallel work.
Our indoor classroom includes community table for group projects, a loose parts center, a block area, a home life corner, a reading nook, and other areas to explore, connect, and create. We have a separate on-site makers’s studio where children work with light/shadows, clay, sensory materials, and a variety of child-accessible artistic media. When this is complete, we come together to share stories and to sing together movement, dance and wiggles are encouraged and expected. During circle time, we give children exposure to music as I believe it is a powerful tool for social/emotional learning, language acquisition, and early math and literacy skills. When we've finished meeting as a group, the children enjoy a snack and then head outdoors to play under the shade of our orange trees in the garden.
Outdoors children enjoy access to water play, a mud kitchen, construction truck demolition area, sand box, outdoor easels, building materials, nature exploration, gross motor and imaginative play.
We believe childhood should feel meaningful, connected, and full of curiosity.
What is a day like at the Maker’s Garden Playschool?
As everyone arrives, we allow children to take time to settle in, get comfortable, and begin connecting with their peers and the environment around them.
830AM Arrivals + Indoor Classroom + Maker's Studio9AM Circle Time Music + Movement930AM Snack in the Community Kitchen10AM Outdoor Classroom + Nature Play (Rain or Shine)1145AM Lunch + Stories1230PM Daily Departures + Rest + Quiet Reading*Example schedule may be subject to change based on group needs, desires and ongoing projects or special activities, dance class, yoga, baking etc.