SHED Philosophy

SHED is a warm and nurturing enrichment program, which will meet the social, emotional, cognitive and physical, needs of your Kindergarten-aged child. While respecting the individuality of your child's development, the program will foster a sense of community within the group, encourage learning among the children and enhance your child's emerging social skills.

The overall theme for this year is "Social Responsibility": learning to respect one another's similarities and differences, learning to respect each other's personal space and property, and learning manners and consideration for others. One of the main goals of the Kindergarten year is to foster your child's emerging self-help skills. SHED places great emphasis on problem solving, brainstorming possibilities and offering choice within limits to help children learn to make logical, acceptable choices and accept responsibility and consequences for those choices.

By keeping the teacher/child ratio as low as possible (1:8) and the grouping fairly consistent, we are able to meet the developmental needs of each child while encouraging a feeling of companionship among the children. We provide a comfortable, protected and familiar setting for the child - and at the same time are able to meet your needs for safe, accessible, affordable childcare.

SHED is the place where Learning and Curiosity meet Fun and Adventure!