San Francisco, CA
One Fifty Parker School

At One Fifty Parker Avenue School we delight in a child's natural curiosity and desire to make sense of the world, and we encourage each child to become engaged in learning activities.

We believe children learn best through hands-on experiences, and provide an environment where children can explore and discover through open ended materials, age appropriate arts and crafts projects, a safe and stimulating outdoor space and an excellent teaching staff. We believe that children of preschool age should learn through observation, interacting with peers and teachers, real objects, and be encouraged to seek solutions to concrete problems.

Children at Parker School are encouraged to make choices according to their own intrinsic interests. Teachers facilitate learning by asking questions, encouraging the children to ask questions and offering materials and ideas to deepen the play experience. At each age group, Parker School's stated goals provide an educational framework and are designed to lay a foundation on which the other goals build as the child matures.

As one scholar of early childhood education stated, "Nursery school is a human relations laboratory."
Group socialization is a critical part of our program, and our teachers are skilled in guiding children through positive interactions with their peers. Children at Parker School are taught methods of observation of other people's feelings that will serve them for the rest of their lives. For instance,
teachers will not simply demand that a child apologize for hitting another child; they will give the child tools to be able to assess how their actions affected their friend and made their friend feel, why their friend might feel that way because of what they did, and what they can do to make their friend feel better. Planting these seeds of empathy is critical to each child's ability to go on to successful school, work and life experiences.

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DAILY SCHEDULE FOR AM NURSERY

9-9:15am - Everyone arrives, teacher assists with drop-off
9-10 - Indoor/outdoor Play
10:00 - Snack
10-10:45 - Indoor play
10:45 - Yard re-opens; Indoor/outdoor Play
11:00 - Inside clean-up
11-11:30 - Quiet book time
11:20 - Outside clean-up
11:30-11:45 - Circle Time
11:45-12pm - Dismissal at the gate, eachers assist with curbside pick-up

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