Rainbow Valley Kids believes that all children grow and develop at their own pace and that they should not be hurried through childhood. Our goal is to provide a safe learning environment where kids can simply be kids. 

We feel play is an important aspect of young children’s lives… it is essential to their well-being and development. New concepts, new skills and new understanding come to children through play. In play, children learn to organize ideas and solve problems. Children’s attention spans begin to lengthen and they learn to communicate their thoughts, feelings and needs to others.   Play also provides multiple fine and gross motor practice opportunities that build muscles and dexterity.  We feel by careful arrangement of our classroom we can offer challenging, interesting play and learning choices that will further each child's growth and development.

We balance this play with many structured activities such as table time, circle time, open ended art activities, music, meals, clean up, etc. We use the State Early Childhood Learning Guidelines to ensure a well rounded program that will prepare each child for kindergarten.  We feel it is important to design our curriculm to be developmentally appropriate.  By maintaining a small class (12 children or less) it makes it possible for us to know each child and their strengths and weekness.  This indepth knowledge allows us to provide projects to meet and further each child's education.   By purposeful teaching, we capitalize on everyday activities such as setting the table to teach counting, patterning and one to one correspondence.  We feel it is important take advantage of the learning opportunities whenever they present themselves in a normal course of each day.When a child notices a bug on the playground, we may use the opportunity to not only teach more about bugs (science), but in the process, children will also learn that books, magazines, and computes are resources for knowledge.