About the Program:
The Burrow School utilizes a curriculum inspired by play-based learning, emergent curriculum development, and the Reggio Emilia Approach. All of these approaches are lauded by the NAEYC as being developmentally appropriate practice for our children’s fast-growing minds.
Our play-based curriculum involves pure, unstructured play. These experiences help our children find the joy in making little discoveries about the world around them. Fostering this joy creates kids that are eager to seek out learning for enjoyment, not as an expected means of knowing what is required.
Emergent curriculum means we take into consideration the interests our students have expressed during their play and craft opportunities, through provocations (materials brought in related to the interest) to further their inquiry. The curriculum is also formed in relation to children’s ever evolving needs and strengths.
The Reggio Emilia Approach is rooted in the premise that children have “a hundred languages,” which they are encouraged to use to explore their environment and express themselves. These “languages,” include the expressive, communicative, symbolic, cognitive, ethical, metaphorical, logical, imaginative, and relational. Teachers are co-learners, working side by side with the children to discover and document.