Philosophy

We strive to make Red Barn a place that empowers children to make choices, provide a safe venue for children to take risks, and foster a postive haven for children to express themselves.

Our curriculum reflects a diverse community of learners that honors all individual learning styles. We create an atmosphere where children love learning and epxerience a sense of wonder about the way things work. Red Barn supports a philosophy that is respectful of family, culture, and community. We value the cooperative experience in which a parent's skillsets are actively involved in their child's learning.

Nature’s Scavenger Hunt

Children became detectives for the day, scouring the great outdoors with a magnifying glass to find worms, insects and other small creatures to bring back to school for further investigation. They helped catalog their findings by making a list of everything we collected, from millipedes and caterpillars to grubs and pill bugs

Sprouting Seeds

Children became detectives for the day, scouring the great outdoors with a magnifying glass to find worms, insects and other small creatures to bring back to school for further investigation. They helped catalog their findings by making a list of everything we collected, from millipedes and caterpillars to grubs and pill bugs.

Tree Bark and Crafts

Integrating the indoors and outdoors is an important part of our curriculum to help children develop a lifelong love of nature and an understanding of our environment, among many other benefits. On one of our nature walks, children collected fallen tree bark and brought it into the classroom where we used oil pastels to create colorful masterpieces.

Goals

Through age-appropriate, developmental, and hands-on activities, Red Barn provides an environment and curriculum that will help children to:

• Foster a positive sense of self

• Learn to be self-confident

• Function as part of a group

• Cooperate, share, problem solve, listen, and participate

• Develop thinking, reasoning, questioning, and experimentation skills

• Nurture early literacy skills and a love of books

• Develop language and communication skills to articulate needs, express feelings, and acquire negotiation skills

• Initiate conversation and share experiences

• Experience the thrill of creativity, discovery, and inspiration

• Recognize that they are part of a community

• Feel comfortable experimenting with all kinds of materials

• Develop respect for others

• Learn to honor differences and recognize similarities

• Develop physical strength and ability

• Gain exposure to different types of artistic expression