Apple Orchard School | Paper Pinecone
Details
Facility Type: 
Preschool
About the Program: 
Apple Orchard School focuses on the growth of the whole child through a play based, creative, nature focused curriculum. We promote this growth through a warm, engaging, and stimulating environment rooted in deep caring, and trusting relationships among teachers, children, and families. We believe preschool children learn best through hands-on exploration and play, which is at the core of our curriculum. Play develops qualities such as empathy, flexibility, communication and capacity to collaborate which children need to lead happy, fulfilled lives. Play is a primary learning path at Apple Orchard School, and our unique farm environment provides unlimited opportunities for skills learned through play to be applied to classroom foundational learning. At this age, we believe that sitting and having a child count blocks doesn’t compare to jumping from stump to stump while counting or noticing how many ducks are on a pond one day compared to the next. We want to capitalize on what engages children at this age so that they are excited and interested in learning. We use the farm around us because there is a direct and positive correlation between contact with nature, imaginative play, and learning. In both our indoor and outdoor classrooms, we engage in storytelling, drama and frequent art projects, and participate in the exploration of building, estimating, measuring, planning, and problem solving. With nature at the core of our program we support our mission by using a blended approach from the evolving, well researched, early education best practices.
Offerings: 
Pre-K
School Year
Programs: 
Full Day
Half Day AM
Schedule: 
5 days
Hours: 
8:15 am - 4:00 pm
Meals Included: 
Snacks
Enrichment activities: 
Computers, Music, Dance, Spanish
Application Fee: 
$50.00
Wait List & Priority Enrollment Details: 
BEGINNING LATE SEPTEMBER Contact the school to schedule an appointment NOVEMBER THROUGH MID-DECEMBER Parent visits begin for Chicken Coop and Class I programs JANUARY Parent visits for Class II and Class III programs begin Acceptance and waitlist letters are sent to families for Chicken Coop and Class I FEBRUARY Parent visits for Class II and Class III programs continue LATE MARCH Acceptance and waitlist letters are sent to families for Class II and Class III
Total Capacity: 
98
Schedules and Fees: 
Age RangeNo. of DaysTimeCostNotes
2.9-4
5
8:15-12:00
$20100/Yearly
0
4-5
5
8:15-12:00
$21000/Yearly
0
5-6
5
8:15-12:00
$23450/Yearly
Includes three long days on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday until 2:30 p.m.
2.9-6
5
12:00-4:00
$200/Weekly
$50/day uncontracted rate
Program Director: 
Martina Albright
Public or Private: 
Private
Home-based or Center: 
Center
License #: 
9007762
Financial Aid Offered: 
Yes

Rates subject to change without notice.

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