Within our holistic curriculum, we seamlessly integrate play-based learning and academic enrichment, offering a dynamic educational experience for each child. Our flexible program empowers you to select classes that best suit your child's developmental, emotional, and social needs. Through engaging activities and hands-on experiences, we are dedicated to cultivating an environment where children thrive and realize their full potential.
At Growing Tree, we've introduced our Indoor Discovery Play Zone to foster children's learning and development through play. Our indoor area offers endless opportunities for exploration, imagination, and fun, while also nurturing key developmental skills. Alongside play-based activities, we maintain a balanced focus on academic learning, with an emphasis on bilingual (English and Chinese) teaching, ensuring children thrive and reach their full potential in our spacious environment.
We believe in exploring beyond the classroom. Our students participate in field trips to local destinations like the pumpkin patch, zoo, library, and the beach. We also welcome special guests such as the San Francisco Police Department and Fire Department for a presentation and meet and greet.
During Circle Time, children participate in engaging storytelling sessions and learn about ABC's, numbers, colors, shapes, body parts, days of the week, months, and seasons through interactive singing activities. Our program director accompanies the singing on the piano, adapting familiar tunes to incorporate educational content. Additionally, flashcards are utilized to further enhance language development.
Our reading program, featuring an extensive on-site children's library, lays the foundation for your child's future. Led by teachers, children practice silent reading, engage in discussions, and bond with providers in a cozy reading area. We introduce stories, teach key elements, and make reading engaging with varied voices and moods. As children progress, interaction grows, fostering a love for books.
Children engage in Creative Play through assembling Thomas the Train sets, building blocks, LEGO designs, puzzles, and dressing mannequins and dolls. They unleash their imagination by creating their own designs and using manipulatives to put objects together.
In Dramatic Play, children explore creativity by acting out community helpers and participating in show and tell. Through acting, they gain insight into the restaurant business, engaging in selling, dining, and learning about multicultural food and money. Children wear various community helper uniforms to role-play service workers and professionals. Show and tell sessions allow children to share items from home and practice sequencing stories, fostering sharing and storytelling skills.
Arts & Crafts offers diverse hands-on activities with monthly themes to spark creativity. Children engage in painting, cutting, and clay making, enhancing fine motor coordination and finger muscle development through manipulative items.
Children dive into music with an introduction to the piano keyboard. They learn about notes, reading music, and become familiar with concepts like "Middle C" and understand the progression of tones from low to high, as in "do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do." This fosters a strong foundation in music, applicable to any instrument they may pursue.
Children develop math skills through hands-on activities and play. They grasp sorting, counting, and comparing concepts using tangible materials like blocks, play dough, and shapes. These activities foster skills in classification, ordering, and measurement. Through play, children develop problem-solving abilities, number sense, geometry, measurement, and pattern recognition.
Another one of our favorite activities is incorporated into our performing arts program. In ballet, children will learn the positions of the arms, feet, head, and body including the basic techniques of ballet. Children will learn definitions of ballet terminology, movements and steps for a beginning student plus barre work, center work, and stretching.
In singing, children will practice singing on a created stage in front of an audience comprised of children and teaching staff. By performing in front of spectators or of a group, children will become comfortable, gain confidence, and develop self-esteem in public settings. concise
Children will be exposed to a spacious outdoor play area. There are tricycles, climbing structures, mini-basketball hoops, crawl tubes, slides, and playhouses. Our 3000 square foot outdoor space will allow children to move freely throughout while being adequately supervised.
Interaction with others is important for the development of children and allows them to learn appropriate social behaviors as well as to develop higher self-esteem. Specifically, children will learn proper manners, participate in small and large group settings, ask questions to extend understanding, use language to problem solve, and interact with classmates and teachers.