Program
Our classrooms grow with your child through all five age groups. 🌱
1. Infants:Â Elsa's Place (Seed)
2. 16 months -Â 2 years: Shorashim (Root)
3. 2 years: Alim (Sprout)
4. 3 years: Nitzanim (Blossom)
5. 4 years: Pericha (Flourish)
Read about each of them below:
Elsa's Place (Seed)
Choosing care for your baby is one of the most meaningful decisions you’ll make. When it’s time to return to work, Gan Gani is here to surround your child with warmth, attentive care, and thoughtful stimulation throughout the day.
Our low teacher-child ratios allow us to truly know each baby -Â their rhythms, their needs, and their growing personalities. Our educators are deeply experienced in early childhood development, and even more importantly, they care deeply about the children in their care.
In our warm, nurturing environment, your baby is held, comforted, talked to, and celebrated - in a space that feels like a home. Gan Gani offers a full-day program, with care available from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm, so you can go about your day feeling confident that your baby is safe, loved, and thriving.
Shorashim (Root)
“When the world is scaled larger than you are it is nice to have a special place your own size."
Our toddler classroom is designed with toddler-sized tables and chairs, along with materials carefully chosen to support this unique stage of development. A rich blend of sensory and motor exploration offers toddlers many joyful opportunities to discover, move, and engage with their world.
Through thoughtfully structured play, our toddler curriculum supports growth across all areas of development - physical, language, social-emotional, and cognitive. While toddlers at this age typically play alongside their peers rather than directly with them, our teachers gently lay the foundation for future interactive play by modeling, guiding, and supporting early social experiences.
Although physical skills cannot be taught outright, our educators intentionally create an environment filled with opportunities for children to practice, experiment, and build confidence in their growing abilities.
Alim (Sprout)
We know that all children learn and grow through active play and participation. Therefore, our program for two-year-olds is designed to allow each child to explore and be actively engaged in a rich Jewish environment, enhanced with developmentally appropriate activities. Activities are designed to encourage development of all aspects of a child’s life - physical, social, emotional and cognitive. Children are given the freedom to choose from a large variety of activities and materials with the teachers acting as facilitators, encouraging their participation and stimulating their thinking by the interactions they provide and the questions they ask.
Nitzanim (Blossom)
Each year of life brings exciting challenges for children. As children turn three, they leave behind the last hint of toddlerhood and begin to be more self sufficient. Their focus turns even more toward social interaction and also toward imaginative and creative thought. They exhibit an ever growing interest in learning everything possible about their expanding world.One of the major tasks of early childhood is to learn how to interact with and get along within the world around us. Our three-year-old program offers many opportunities for social interactions within all parts of our play-based structure. Adults teach and model appropriate words and actions to use while interacting with friends, joining a group, resolving a conflict, problem solving together and negotiating.
Pericha (Flourish)
The four-year-old program is a warm, friendly environment where children are encouraged to try out their growing skills with the assurance that their ideas and knowldege are respected and valued. Four-year-olds explore the world around them through hands-on experiences that spark curiosity, confidence, and a love of learning.
These experiences support pre-academic learning in both literacy and math. Children are immersed in a print-rich environment that encourages early literacy through storytelling, shared reading, meaningful conversations, songs, and exposure to letters, sounds, and written language throughout the classroom. Pre-writing skills are nurtured through activities that strengthen fine motor control, such as drawing, tracing, cutting, and manipulating materials.
Math-based learning is woven into the day using hands-on manipulatives and activities that promote number concepts, patterning, matching, sorting, and classifying.
By the end of the four-year-old year, children feel confident, capable, and well prepared for the next stage of learning in Kindergarten.
Progam Features
- Brightwheel Digital Communication
- Parent - Child Events
- On-Site Gardening Program
- Music Class
- Literacy and Nature Enrichment
- Yoga and Movement EnrichmentÂ
- Immersive Jewish Holiday Units
- Outdoor Playgrounds
- Kabbalat Shabbat
- Weekly Challah baking
- Field Trips (older age groups)
- Community Helper Visits
- Jewish Values CurriculumÂ