Parents and children enjoy Parent & Me classes together. Children will have an opportunity to participate in a variety of age-appropriate activities, including socialization and experiences in art, music, body movement, manipulatives, and much more. Parents will have opportunities to share the exciting, and sometimes frustrating, experiences of parenting. Parent & Me meets one day each week. Classes are grouped according to age with a 6-month span in each class.

Parents and children enjoy Parent & Me classes together. Children participate in age-appropriate activities including socialization, art, music, body movement, and manipulatives.

A bridge between Parent & Me and Nursery School, helping children relate to teachers in a group setting and prepare for separation.

Transition is designed for those children with birthdays between January and June who just miss our nursery school cut-off. Not everyone will participate in this program. The Transition program is a bridge between the Parent and Me Program and the regular Nursery School Program. In the beginning, child and parent (or grandparent or caregiver) will attend Transition together, gradually working toward successful separation. The class will meet two times per week and will provide the opportunity for children to begin relating to their teachers in a group situation. The daily schedule is planned to provide a balance of indoor/outdoor, quiet/active, individual/group, large muscle/small muscle and child initiated/staff initiated activities.

TSONS’ curriculum is designed to relate to the whole child cognitively, socially, emotionally, and physically. Activities are appropriate to each child’s age and stage of development. A consistent daily schedule gives children confidence in the structure of their day and fosters self-initiated and self-directed play, which are the best vehicles for growth and development during this age. The daily schedule provides a balance of activities such as indoor/outdoor, quiet/active, individual/group, large muscle/small muscle, and child initiated/staff initiated. The curriculum is “scaffolded”, meaning each class builds upon successes of the prior year. Curriculum concepts, including language, math, science, art, music, or cooking activities, revolve primarily around themed units, the calendar, seasons, and holidays. There is no expectation that a child will reach a particular benchmark at the end of each year, merely that each child has progressed in an appropriate manner from where they started.

Half-day program focusing on whole child development, with activities designed to support cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth through play and structured learning.

Children in their third year of nursery school have the option of enrolling in our Developmental Kindergarten program. DK a year-long program held twice each week on either Mon/Wed OR Tue/Thurs which extends your child’s day until 3:30pm. This program complements the morning Pre-K classes. Children will attend a Pre-K class in the morning, eat their lunch at school, and begin DK after lunch. Because of the academic nature of both public and private Kindergarten programs, this third year option provides young children the opportunity to be cognitively, socially, emotionally, and physically ready.