The structure of the program uses the Boulder County Farm to ECE nutrition Education Program that supports children to learn about healthy, local food through weekly gardening, weekly nutrition lessons, monthly cooking, tasting and snacks. This curriculum teaches children where food comes from and how it is grown. When children help to grow and prepare fruits and vegetables they're more willing to try them.
Using the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines, we monitor your child's growth and development using monthly lesson plans, an assessment checklist, work sampling/photos/observations using the portfolio method, in which children are actively involved. They will know what their portfolio is, and have access to it every day. This information is shared with you at a minimum of twice a year at the parent/teacher conference.
The method in which all activities are carried out is called Elements Teaching Method. Working with the tools of astrology, we focus on the elements of fire, air, earth, and water, which your child was born with having various amounts of all of them (see the elements survey and elements activities on the forms tab). When we see where an element could use support or there is excessive amounts of one, we can become aware of that and offer opportunities for balance which is a life long skill to learn. Awareness is the secret ingredient to growth.
Here is what each element looks like:
Fire: lots of energy and self-confidence
Air: quickness, talkative, observant
Earth: slower, deliberate, routine based
Water: shy, sensitive, empathetic
Increasing water we can decrease fire
Increasing earth we can decrease air
Increasing fire we can decrease water
Increasing air we can decrease earth
Using the Colorado Early Learning and Development Guidelines, we monitor your child's growth and development using monthly lesson plans, an assessment checklist, work sampling/photos/observations using the portfolio method, in which children are actively involved. They will know what their portfolio is, and have access to it every day. This information is shared with you at a minimum of twice a year at the parent/teacher conference.
The method in which all activities are carried out is called Elements Teaching Method. Working with the tools of astrology, we focus on the elements of fire, air, earth, and water, which your child was born with having various amounts of all of them (see the elements survey and elements activities on the forms tab). When we see where an element could use support or there is excessive amounts of one, we can become aware of that and offer opportunities for balance which is a life long skill to learn. Awareness is the secret ingredient to growth.
Here is what each element looks like:
Fire: lots of energy and self-confidence
Air: quickness, talkative, observant
Earth: slower, deliberate, routine based
Water: shy, sensitive, empathetic
Increasing water we can decrease fire
Increasing earth we can decrease air
Increasing fire we can decrease water
Increasing air we can decrease earth