Perspective
Discover the unique philosophies behind Little Leprechaun's approach to early childhood education. Click on a concept to learn more.
Engage and Energize
A child that is given choices and engaged on a personal level is a joyous learner.
Empower and Encourage
Supporting and developing the confidence your child needs to cultivate autonomous learning
Explore and Experience
Providing opportunities for meaningful problem solving within both the physical and social worlds while exercising each of the eight different "intelligences" that children bring the learning environment.
Embrace and Express
Nurturing the child's natural tendency towards acceptance of ethnic and cultural differences. Practicing expression of themselves, their ideas, and their feelings through the "100 Languages of Children".
Enrich and Expand
Whether it's French and sign language lessons, educational field trips, or technology instruction, these scholastic complements strongly influence later academic success.
Evaluate and Evolve
"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies" (author unknown).
Our school, our curriculum, and our day-to-day activities emerge from the interests, the developments, and the personalities of our children.
Engage and Energize
A child's development as an autonomous learner, who is motivated to
inquire, explore, and experiment in order to solve meaningful
problems, depends on her having the opportunity to make choices.
During their days at Little Leprechaun, children are given as many
opportunities as possible to encounter manageable choices that fall
within their competencies. Each child's individual interests are
engaged through opportunities for self-directed learning-through-play,
rather than through dictated learning alone. This allows your child to
feel in control of her experience and to have a vested interest in the outcome of her activity.
Based on the research of Jean Piaget, active and energizing learning
environments are constructed within the classrooms that allow children
to choose from a wide seection of materials and activities. Learning
centers consisting of drama, blocks, art, science, table activities,
sensory experience, music and literature are designed to offer each
child a choice of developmentally and personally relevant activities.