Early Learners

The Early Learners classrooms provide an environment where our youngest children can learn and grow individually while also participating in cooperative group play and lessons.

Our curriculum for toddlers provides comfort through routine while encouraging independence, coordination, and natural curiosity. Daily activities—including play, art, and conversation—strengthen language and refine motor skills, allowing children freedom to explore and discover their environment.

Essential questions are open-ended, thought-provoking questions that are revisited again and again. Throughout their years in the Early Childhood School, Laurel students explore these essential questions, and we witness their responses to and dialogue around these questions grow in complexity as the students get older.

Early Childhood School Essential Questions

List of 5 items.

Social Emotional

• Who am I?
• How do I recognize and respond to my emotions?
• What does it mean to be part of a community?
• What does it mean to see things from a different point of view?
Mathematics

• How do I use numbers?
• Why do I use numbers?
• Why is it important for some things to happen in order?
Language Arts

• What are the ways that we communicate?
• Why are words important?
• What do I learn from stories and books?
• How can I tell my story?
Science

• What can I observe about the natural world?
• What do I understand about the natural world?
• What do I learn from experimentation?
Social Studies

• What is a community?
• How do I contribute to a community?
• How do we help each other?