Overview
The Discovery Studio environment is intentionally designed for children ages 3–6, with spaces that invite science and discovery, building and engineering, art and creative expression, literacy, and collaborative learning. Open-ended materials, loose parts, natural elements, and engaging learning invitations encourage children to explore their interests and bring their ideas to life.
Our educators thoughtfully prepare and continually evolve the environment based on children’s questions, interests, and discoveries. Rather than every child following the same path, children have opportunities to make choices, work independently and together, revisit ideas, and take their learning in new directions.
Spaces for Discovery
Throughout the Discovery Studio, children move among spaces created for building, experimenting, creating, reading, imagining, and investigating. The Maker Space encourages design and engineering, while areas for science, art, literacy, sensory exploration, and dramatic play offer new ways for children to express ideas and deepen their understanding.
Learning also extends beyond the Studio into our gardens and outdoor spaces, where children observe nature, care for plants and animals, investigate the changing seasons, and make discoveries that often inspire new questions and projects back inside the classroom.
Different Directions
Children are introduced to reading, writing, language arts and more advanced creative and cultural activities, while continuing to develop perceptual and motor skills. At this stage of learning, children also begin practicing informal public speaking, which establishes the self-esteem necessary for active class participation. The Kindergarten program also places an emphasis on the development of interpersonal skills, such as empathy, respect, self-awareness, cooperation, and an embrace of cultural and ideologically diversity.