Nurturing curious minds, protecting childhood
Welcome to Kindred Hollow, where our programs are designed to offer a truly unique and enriching experience for your child. Discover an education that goes beyond the classroom walls, fostering deep connections, project-driven exploration, and a profound love for learning in an outdoor-first environment.
Our Programs
Three Year Olds
At Kindred Hollow, our youngest learners engage in play-based education, both indoors and outdoors.
Our thoughtfully designed spaces reflect our commitment to nurturing the whole child. Each environment is crafted to feel like an extension of home, acting as a child's third teacher by promoting independence, curiosity, and meaningful connections.
These environments provide endless opportunities for developing practical life skills, enhancing gross and fine motor abilities, and supporting social-emotional growth.
Every day, our three-year-olds are immersed in language through singing, reading, movement, and creative expression!
Four Year Olds
In our classes for four-year-olds at Kindred Hollow, children actively engage in Project-Based Learning. Projects naturally evolve through inquiry and observations, allowing learning to take place through hands-on experiences and problem-solving.
We enhance literacy and numeracy by combining children's interests with expert insights, seamlessly integrating these elements into their playtime activities.
Handwriting development begins with a sensory-rich approach, utilizing mark-making, drawing, and playful activities that spark a child's desire to write.
Social-emotional development is fostered through intentional modeling of social language, helping children identify their feelings, articulate their needs, and navigate interactions with peers.
Transitional Kindergarten
Transitional Kindergarten students are starting to develop essential self-regulation skills necessary for engaging with a curriculum that prepares them for Kindergarten.
Social-emotional learning will be enhanced through the Social Explorers program, where Kindred Hollow children will explore key social competencies, including the Group Plan and Whole Body Listening.
Literacy flourishes when there is genuine interest. We cultivate letter recognition and phonological awareness through engaging oral storytelling, uplifting songs, regular reading, and intentional experiences.
Handwriting will be taught using the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum, a sensory-rich approach thoughtfully designed to meet each child where they are developmentally.
Mathematics will be integrated through playful manipulatives that foster number sense and critical thinking skills.
Project-Based Learning will remain a dynamic method for integrating numeracy, literacy, and social skills.
Our Kindred Flow
A typical day at Kindred Hollow unfolds with ample unstructured outdoor play, allowing children to lead their own adventures. We come together for several moments of community, sharing in and around tables and carpets to sing, laugh, play, create, read, and move. Learning flows naturally through choice and the children's emerging interests.
Reunion 8:00-9:30
Kindred Hollow students begin in outdoor unstructured play. This is a daily period of free, child-led play without predetermined outcomes, supporting independence, problem-solving, and social growth.
Morning Meeting 9:30
A Responsive Classroom practice and an engaging way to start each day, build a strong sense of community, and set children up for success socially and academically. Each morning, students and teachers gather together in a circle and interact with one another during four purposeful components. Greeting-Sharing-Activity- Message
Snack and Read Aloud 10:00
Students enjoy a snack they bring from home, and enjoy an interactive story and books from our rich library.
10:30-12:00 Guided Discovery and Project-Based Learning
Students engage in meaningful learning experiences related to their development: cognitive, language, physical, and social-emotional. This would include curriculum and practices that strengthen fine and gross motor development, language as it relates to foundational literacy, mathematics, and number sense, and social-emotional learning. This part of the day may look different for each class as we are building developmentally appropriate skills.
12:30 Community Snack / Dismissal
This part of the day, all students enjoy a snack together that is prepared and served by the students. As a community this is a time of reflection, thinking about and talking about the day’s learning and a look ahead into tomorrow.
Is Kindred Hollow right for your family?
The ideal Kindred Hollow family shares our core philosophy: placing children at the center of their learning journey, believing that the outdoors drives the best outcomes, and understanding that social-emotional development is the most important foundation for all future growth. We thrive as a small, intimate community where childhood is protected and celebrated.