Mountain Oak Charter School
Preschool in Prescott, AZ 86301
Mountain Oak School Preschool offers wonderful adventures as children and teachers explore new territories. In early childhood (until about age 7), children are deeply affected and shaped by impressions of the people and environment around them, and learn primarily through imitation. Our teachers provide their students with examples of goodness that are worthy of imitation, in a warm, protected and beautiful setting.
They encourage play as the natural mode of learning. This fosters physical coordination, imaginative thinking, and important social skills. In addition, a rhythm of practical activities strengthens the will and meets the very young childs fundamental impulse to learn imitatively through doing. Legs itching to move find balance beams, logs, and secret forest paths; ready hands find nuts to chop, cheese to grate, and wood to sand. Eager minds investigate bugs, leaves, flowers, and stones. While young hearts are fed stories, songs, and puppet plays, hungry tummies find warm snacks and hot tea for nourishment. Of course, there are new friends and lots of time to play, as the children learn about social relationships.
- Child Ages:
- 3 years - 14 years
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- Arizona Department of Health Services Division of Licensing Services
- Vouchers:
- This provider does not accept vouchers
- Preschool:
- Yes
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Mountain Oak School philosophy is based upon these priciples:
- Learning to think, learning to care and learning to create.
- A classical and innovative education.
- A strong sense of community.
- A high degree of parental participation.* * * *
- A close, long-term relationship with teachers.
- Cooperative learning among peers.
- A strong focus on respect, responsibility and compassion.
- Fostering each childs full potential.
- Nurturing the imagination in the early years in order to build a foundation for abstract thinking.
- Challenging the childs intellect in the middle years and through 8th grade.
- Emphasizing the childs relationship to the natural world.
- Promoting the child’s respect for the environment and humankind.
- Awakening a student’s genuine enthusiasm, an interest in the WORLD, (a love of learning) and sense of purpose in life.
- Creativity, happiness, criticalthinking and self reliance.
- An educational approach encouraging balance.
- Every child as a unique spiritual being who brings gifts, as well as challenges.
- Passion being essential in preparing graduates for important roles in life.
- A sense of belonging and contribution.
- Integrating imagination and the arts with academics, infusing the spirit of learning with meaning and integrity.
- A curriculum not driven by standardized testing.
- Promoting cooperation over competition; and imaginative play over media exposure.
- An educational environment that does not use technology in the classroom.
- Arts, music and movement integrated into the entire curriculum.
- An educational program that teaches a foreign language starting in first grade.