Lavender Preschool is a nature based early childhood education center which offers a unique curriculum ( a child development and conservation values ) for preschoolers age 2 to 5 years Children experience outdoor in nature to learn about natural world around them. They will spend time inside with indoor play activities.
Our philosophy is to provide a high quality early childhood development program for preschoolers. Inspire them to love and appreciate the beauty of nature. We believe that through nature play a child can understand everything better A childhood period should be filled with wonders, discoveries and adventure which they can get from nature play. Playing amongst nature not only offers opportunity for natural learning, but also develops self-esteem, confidence, physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development of young children. We believe that children’s interactions with the natural world allow for the development of a lifetime of skills. We also believe that children need time to be themselves: children. They need ample opportunities to play, to practice and work out social skills with other children in a safe environment, and to gain self-confidence and self-esteem. Childhood experiences in nature help stimulate children’s curiosity and interest in the world around them, and help them grow intellectually in their desire to better understand the world and their place in it.
Lavender’s curriculum is based on daily, direct encounters with all that is living in the natural world: animals, plants, water, sun, rain, and wind. Our curriculum aims to foster child’s intimate relationship with nature, which will inspire wonder and support child’s expanding sense of selfNature mirrors the same dynamic transformative forces that are at play in the child. Its complexity provides the most developmentally rich environment possible for the education of the whole child. At Lavender, we focus on four fundamental motivations within the child that must be recognized and nourished for healthy development.
Finding acceptance in the group to feel secure, and to attain a level of stability and calm.
The desire to cope with challenges in order to function optimally in one's environment. These adaptations include self-regulation, development of skills, self-sufficiency, and prediction of outcomes.
Engaging with the world in ways that directly result in joy, happiness, pleasure, and invigoration. This is where the child asks "Why?" This search for knowledge begins with wonder.
This differs from the previous motivations in that it leads the child to engage the world in ways that supersede self-interest, doing things such as "helping, comforting, sharing and cooperating” because these things are important in their own right.
