Mountain Sprouts Children's Community
Preschool in Leavenworth, WA 98826
The world is a fascinating place, and Mountain Sprouts is here to help kids discover it. Our classroom is nestled in an historic barn on 320 beautiful acres, located at Tierra Learning Center near Leavenworth.
Our students get lots of fresh air and exercise, and gain confidence in the out-of-doors, through guided nature walks, nature observation and other seasonal group activities. A spacious fenced play area lies behind the barn.
Art is for everyone, especially kids. Our teaching staff help students use art as a tool for personal expression, and also as a means to engage them in learning. Letters, numbers, geology, world cultures and much more come alive through painting, crafts, music and dance.
Everyday, our students get an opportunity to immerse themselves in creativity. Armed with a glue stick and a smile, they reveal their own unique talents to themselves, and a network of peers.
Local kids, local parents, local teachers. It’s what Mountain Sprouts is all about. Students have an opportunity to form enduring friendships with classmates they will grow up with, navigating life and school in the same small town.
Parents have an opportunity to meet other parents, many of whom are also performing the delicate balancing act of work and family. Welcome to community. Welcome to Mountain Sprouts.
- Child Ages:
- 2.5 years - 6 years
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- Washington State Department of Early Learning
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- Monday to Friday 7.30am - 5.30pm
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Mountain Sprouts believes that children’s emotional, social, physical, and intellectual development is inter-related. With a focus on arts and nature-based learning, we seek to educate the whole child.
Emotional Development
We provide a safe, nurturing environment where children are free to develop emotionally. We aim to assist our children in personal development of a strong sense of self, even away from their parents. Free play offers children the chance to make choices and be independent, and allows them the freedom of self-expression through various activities ranging from art, music, and crafts, to physical activity.
Social Development
The environment at Mountain Sprouts will provide children with many opportunities to interact with their peers in a variety of self-chosen and instructor-led activities. We help to assist the children in developing strategies for social interaction, being careful not to intervene when not necessary. We encourage children to share, take turns, cooperate, help, be aware of each other, and to value the diversity and differences among members of a community.
Physical Development
Mountain Sprouts provides a safe, healthy environment for children to move and develop their bodies. Children will have opportunities on a daily basis to perform various activities which engage both large and small muscles. Our daily schedule includes time for outdoor play, or indoors during inclement weather. We also provide for children’s fine motor development by offering a variety of open-ended activities at varying degrees of development in which children can choose to participate.
Intellectual Development
We believe young children’s intellectual development is promoted through providing a variety of child-initiated, open-ended activities. Especially important to intellectual development are activities in which children can develop physical knowledge about their world (gravity, objects in space, scientific properties of matter, and nature) by exploring and playing with real objects and materials such as sand, water, and wood blocks. Children will also develop a mathematical knowledge when they begin to relate these objects during play and notice that each block, for example, has a specific size, weight and shape. Dramatic play promotes literacy as children learn to use symbols in their play, which they will later transfer to letters and numerals in their grade-school years. Puppets, dress-up play, music, and stories teach social knowledge and create an affinity in children to be readers and writers later on. Daily creative opportunities allow children to experience the impact they can have on their world. We are a play school not an academic school; we believe the intellectual side of learning takes place intrinsically during play experiences.