WATERSHED LEARNING CENTER PROGRAMS
Now enrolling for September 2008
Pre-K, Kindergarten & Early Years
Full Day Program Ages 4 - 7 Monday through Thursdays
The Watershed Learning Center’s program offers safe, engaging play and natural learning opportunities.
In the Center’s cozy classrooms and nurturing environment, students learn to work together with others, express themselves clearly, and to respect themselves, their classmates and teachers, and other living things.
Our curriculum is individualized, with a foundation in age-appropriate natural history, geography and science, music and the arts.
Problem solving and early computational skills are encouraged amongst our youngest students.
Nature and outdoor awareness are part of each day, and there is daily outdoor time.
We carefully nurture early and emerging reading skills in a playful and patient atmosphere.
We also recognize the importance of unstructured playtime, and provide plenty of time for play: indoors and outdoors, hiking , and playing games on the fields and lawns.
Our students engage in healthy large and small motor skill development, get the exercise they need, and have daily opportunities to express that boundless energy that is the very meaning of childhood.
The program is supplemented with frequent field trips to local parks, trails, and other relevent community destinations.
The Watershed School offers a well-rounded curriculum with emphasis on the key academic areas: English language and literature; history and geography; mathematics and problem solving; earth science, natural history and ecology. Yet academic learning makes up only part of the Watershed School day.
Students create projects and portfolios, and pursue goals developed by the parents, student and teacher together. Each student’s instruction will be individually designed and authentically assessed, including reporting to satisfy NYSED home school requirements. Students will also work on the creation of developmental portfolios and other authentic assessments.
We provide a context for student’s spontaneous growth and learning, as well as structure for organizing and understanding their journey.
We have a clearly defined Democratic process that we, as a school, consciously participate in. Students take responsibiilty for themselves, learn to keep their word and be accountable to others, and to communicate their ideas and feelings. We create a safe, caring community guided by knowledgable, passionate adults in which our children can learn and grow.
Each child's program is individualized and developed with the cooperation and partnership of each student's parents. Frequent communication and readjustment of program and goals when neccesary ensure that students are progressing on a desired path.