Spring Hollow Early Learning Center

At Spring Hollow, your children will make choices to experience their worlds through collage, dance, literature, nature, paint, pottery, puppet play, sculpture, singing, shadow play, and writing. Through these experiences, explorations, and creations, they will learn skills in altruism, art, autonomy, collaboration, drama, motor, music, problem solving, critical thinking, story telling, reading and math readiness.

Spring Hollow is inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach to early childhood education. We boast the three teachers in our classroom are the child, the environment, and the adult.

The first teacher is the child. Children learn from themselves and their peers. Children have a natural ability to be autonomous, intelligent, kind, and creative. Children have the right to make choices, create, discover, explore and invent.

The second teacher is the environment. Thus, attention is paid to the look and feel of the classroom. The environment is a pleasant atmosphere - both beautiful and inviting - where individuals feel understood and at ease.

The third teacher is the adult. Teachers' invitations or provocations are used as starting points to encourage interest, involvement, creativity and sustained shared thinking in young children. Both teachers and parents are equal partners. Spring Hollow Early Learning Center relies on the collaboration of its parents to provide exceptional educational service tailored to the needs of individual children and families. Parents show their dedication to the child and to learning through participating in the curriculum, volunteering in the classroom, and providing material support.

This unique curriculum calls for documentation of the child's experiences by teachers and parents through mediums such as photography and observation note taking. Documentation is a tool for child and teacher collaboration to refine reflections and foster knowledge growth.