A Day at Maitland

Each classroom is equipped with 8 different learning centers allowing children to spend time playing independently and with their peers to develop social skills and positive interactions. These include: 

• Art

• Blocks

• Dramatic Play

• Math

• Science

• Reading

• Writing

• Manipulative

Each classroom takes pride in creating and tending to their own corner of the school garden. Depending on the season, the vegetation changes but can include everything from butterfly gardens to vegetable harvests!

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A highlight for many of our students and truly the "charm of our farm" are our many animals in the barnyard. Children have opportunities to learn about our 4-legged friends with gentle feeding interactions and how to care for all living creatures.

Every day, teachers have the opportunity to learn more about the students and for the students to learn about each other in this sharing time. Whether through songs, stories or show and tell, this is a special time of engagement and focus which teaches every day skills as well as deeper conversation.

Twice a month, each class gets the opportunity to spend the day in our special outdoor classroom. Activities include riding tricycles, reading, working in their vegetable or butterfly gardens, collecting eggs, and tending to the animals. Sometimes it will extend even into the lunch period for those staying for the full day.

Twice a month, each classroom has the opportunity to use our kitchen to cook, create, and eat healthy snacks in accordance to their lessons. Examples of past snacks include making applesauce while learning about apples in the fall or moons made out of rice cakes while learning about outer space.