Kindergarten
The Rowan Tree Kindergarten offers parent and child sessions (for children up to age 3), a playgroup (ages 3 to 4), and mixed-age Kindergarten groups for children of 31/2 to 6 years.
The Kindergarten provides a secure and unhurried setting in which children can discover within themselves their own love of learning. We believe that play is the serious work of childhood, and therefore the emphasis in the Kindergarten is towards learning through play. In this way, the child is enabled to develop the skills necessary for successful lifelong learning.
We build a bridge between home and school by creating an environment which is safe, warm, beautiful and loving. As small children learn through imitation, we try to provide them with worthy role models.
The Kindergarten curriculum provides a balance between the artistic and the domestic. The strong rhythm of the Kindergarten days and the repetition that each week brings, carries with it an in-built discipline. Activities include baking, sewing, weaving, modeling, drawing, painting, woodwork, fairy tales, ring games, eurythmy and singing. The celebration of festivals provides focal points as one season moves into the next, and allows the child to express awe, wonder and gratitude for the earth, themselves and others.
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