The Escuelita Way
The Escuelita Way
Children from infancy through elementary age experience Spanish naturally throughout their day.
Rather than formal lessons, language flows through play, art, music, and daily adventures. This organic approach means your child absorbs Spanish while building blocks, painting masterpieces, or exploring our outdoor spaces.
We're nurturing tomorrow's compassionate, bilingual citizens in a place where everyone belongs.
Curriculum
Immersion in Spanish occurs naturally at Escuelita through daily play, exploration, and meaningful relationships. This early exposure strengthens cognitive flexibility, enhances problem-solving skills, and creates valuable neural connections that benefit all academic areas. Research consistently shows bilingual children develop advantages that extend across mathematics, literacy, and creative thinking while gaining cultural perspectives that prepare them for our interconnected world.
Reading & Writing
Our students acquire the Spanish language naturally while they learn and discover the world around them.
Skills Practiced
Interactive reading, alphabet identification, tracing, writing, and language exposure through music.
Math &
Science
We teach math and science through fun activities to learn about numbers and simple math through multi-sensory centers, art, puzzles, building, gardening, and imaginative play.
Skills Practiced
Counting, sorting, grouping, creating patterns, adding, and subtracting.
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Arts
We have daily arts and crafts activities based on the thematic unit for each week and month.
Skills Practiced
Drawing, tracing, cutting, gluing, painting, stringing items, sculpture, and more.
Social Emotional Learning
We have built a culture of respect for teachers and peers that includes using good table manners, taking turns, taking responsibility, and working cooperatively with classmates.
Skills Practiced
Through role-playing, games, reading, and discussion, we learn compassion, sharing, honesty, and respect.
Critical
Thinking
Through hands-on activities and social interactions, children explore, observe, reflect, and problem-solve as they discover their talents and develop new skills.
Skills Practiced
Observation, reflection, and critical thinking.
Trusted sources
We adopt official curriculum sets from different publishers.
The infant classrooms use Creative Curriculum's Mighty Minute
Toddlers use Little Texans Big Futures
Purple and Turquoise use a modified version of Circle by CLI Engage
3s and up use Scholastic Big Day
Rainbows' curriculums shift yearly, but often they use the Latin American Countries curriculum developed by Ms. Dina
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While each classroom follows a developmentally tailored schedule designed to nurture your child's specific stage of growth, our days share a consistent, reassuring flow. This thoughtful structure provides children with the perfect balance of engaging activities, nurturing care, and the predictability that helps young learners thrive. Be sure to visit your child’s classroom to view their schedule.
Daily Schedule
7:00-8:00a
Drop-off (any time between 7:00a & 9:00a)
Children play with their classmates or in mixed groups
8:00a
Free play in the classroom
9:00a
Wash hands & snack
Diapering & wash hands (for littles)
10:00-11:50a
Different for each classroom, but includes a mix of:
Free play
Outside play
Circle time
Rhythm & movement
Diapering (for littles)
11:50a-12:30p
Lunch for littles begins at 11:50a
Lunch for our older kiddos begins at 12:15p
12:05-2:30p
Different for each classroom, but includes a mix of:
Nap prep (for littles): diapering, laying out mats
Nap (for littles)
Curriculum (for big kids)
2:30p
Wash hands & snack
Diapering & wash hands (for littles)
3:00-5:00p
Different for each classroom, but includes a mix of:
Outside play
Circle time
Small group activity
Sensory table/free play
Songs & fingerplays/rhythm & movement
5:00-5:45p
Pick-up (any time between 2:30p & 5:45p)
Children play with their classmates or in mixed groups
Escuelita’s Values
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Child-Centered Learning
We honor each child's unique developmental journey through thoughtful education that engages their natural curiosity rather than rushing toward academic benchmarks.
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Continuous Growth
Our year-round program respects natural learning rhythms, allowing children to build upon discoveries without the disruptions of traditional school calendars.
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Community Connection
Children thrive within our "Little School of the Soul" where shared experiences and intergenerational relationships foster belonging, empathy, and social confidence.
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Early Foundations
We recognize infancy through pre-kindergarten as critical years for establishing cognitive, linguistic, and social-emotional foundations that serve children throughout life.
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Cultural Heritage
Bilingual education provides children with multiple perspectives and honors cultural identities while building bridges between communities and traditions.
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Joyful Engagement
We believe learning flourishes in an atmosphere of warmth, creativity and play. Our days are filled with music, movement, art, and laughter—creating an environment where children are eager to participate and discover.