Welcome To The Birch Classroom!

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Meet Our Birch Room Team!

Miss Natalie

Lead Teacher • Birch

Year Joined: 2024

Favorite Book 📘: Adult book: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Children’s Book: Me First by Helen Lester

Favorite Quote: “Ob-la-di, ob-la-da Life goes on, brah La, la, how the life goes on” – The Beatles

Miss Megan

Co-Teacher • Birch

Year Joined: 2025

The Birch classroom has been designed to welcome the very youngest of our preschool-aged learners, typically around

age 3. While many children transition from our amazing toddler classroom, for some, this is their first experience in a

group care setting. We embrace this formative stage by nurturing all areas of each child’s development. We focus on

building strong relationships, paying close attention to each child’s personality style and understanding their

love language. Through meaningful connections, children build confidence, feel secure, engage in social interactions

and begin to identify and understand their emotions. For hours each day, the Birch children get to play, explore, have fun, and ask countless questions about the world around them!

Birch classroom students are 2.9 or older by September 1st. Children will typically spend the entire school year together in the Birch classroom.

Kids are born explorers,
We foster growth by letting them continue to do so.

In the Birch classroom, we learn with a hands-on, nature-based approach. Play is at the heart of what we do! The 2.9 and young 3-year-old age is a time of rapid growth and learning, and our teachers ensure that all of the little moments – including bathrooming, napping, and eating – are valued as opportunities for connection and learning.

Our focus is to build a strong foundation in social-emotional skills, gross motor development, language, cognitive, and self-help abilities, all essential for future academic and social success. Our curriculum is guided by the children, with themes emerging throughout the year as children express areas of interest. We might spend an entire month focused on modes of transportation, or just a few days learning about the worms we saw down in the mud kitchen!

2-4

Outdoor Hours Each Day

8:1

Our Target Student To Teacher Ratio

2.9-4 Years

Age Group of Birch Classroom

The Birch Curriculum

Learning With Your Hands In The Dirt

The Birch children are ready for outdoor play in ALL weather! A large part of the day is dedicated to outdoor exploration and learning in our thoughtfully designed play spaces. On hot summer days, you will find the Birch children splashing in the sprinkler or collecting and transporting water from the hose. In winter, children gear up so that they can enjoy sledding on the hills or making snowballs with friends! Our favorite days of all are warm, rainy days when the children can experience the pure joy of splashing in a muddy puddle. You’ll often find Birch teachers modeling kindness and respect for nature—gently guiding children as they hold a worm or snail with care, or showing them how we “catch and release” a spider found indoors.

The Birch classroom embraces the unique opportunities each season brings. Our curriculum is closely connected to what the children observe in their environment—whether it’s hatching monarchs in late summer, planting and tending to the garden in spring, investigating water in all its forms during winter, or exploring the many changes of fall as animals and plants prepare for the colder months. These seasonal experiences help foster curiosity, deepen understanding, and nurture a strong connection to the natural world.

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