THE DETAILS

  • School is offered Monday thru Friday, 9am-1pm
  • In home setting
  • Open to children ages 3-5 years old
  • 2 teachers and 12 students
  • Organic, vegetarian snacks
  • Multi-Pure water filtration system
  • Certified Eco-Healthy Childcare Center (www.oeconline.org)
  • Certified Audubon Society of Portland Backyard Wildlife Habitat
  • Follow PPS Calendar (take off weeks of X-mas, etc.)
  • Optional summer school, reduced schedule

Monthly rate

  • $250 for 2 days a week
  • $375 for 3 days a week
  • $500 for 4 days a week
  • $575 for 5 days a week

Further Resources

  • Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills
  • Beyond Discipline: from compliance to community by Alfie Kohn
  • A Child's Work: the importance of fantasy play by Vivian Gussin Paley
  • Free to Learn: introducing Steiner Waldorf early childhood education by Lynne Oldfield
  • Educating Hearts and Minds: reflections on Japanese preschool and elementary education by Catherine C. Lewis
  • Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
  • Punished By Rewards by Alfie Kohn
  • You Can't Say You Can't Play by Vivian Gussin Paley
  • Helping Young Children Flourish by Aletha Solter
  • The Explosive Child by Ross W. Greene
  • Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves by Naomi Aldort

 

Kelly Wild / 5254 NE 18th Ave. Portland, OR 97211 / Ph# 503.750.0500
Email: hummingbirdschool@yahoo.com