Parent & Toddler

Parent & Toddler Program Overview:
Schedule: Monday & Wednesday Mornings
Annual Tuition: $5020

Hanna Fenichel's Parent & Toddler Program creates a gentle, supportive space for young children and their caregivers to explore, learn, and grow together. Designed for children ages 18-24 months, this program offers a loving introduction to social experiences that prioritize emotional safety and connection.

Heartfelt Program Goals: Create a tender first group experience where children can:

• Feel secure and supported
• Develop trust in new environments
• Gradually build confidence and independence
• Discover joy through creative expression

Our compassionate teachers create a warm, reassuring atmosphere where children feel deeply respected. Each carefully planned session invites gentle exploration through:

• Nurturing indoor and outdoor play
• Shared music and storytelling
• Collaborative art experiences
• Supportive snack time
• Caring goodbye rituals
  

Parents are integral partners in this journey, lovingly attuned to their child's unique emotional landscape. Our educators provide thoughtful guidance, helping families navigate early childhood development with sensitivity and understanding. This program isn't just about learning—it's about building a foundation of trust, connection, and mutual discovery between parent and child.

Transition

Schedule: 2 Days a Week - 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Annual Tuition: $9100

The Hanna Fenichel Center offers a bi-weekly transitional program for children ages 2–3 years of age to support children in separating from primary caregivers and to comfortably settle into our preschool environment. Children entering into the Transition Program will remain with the same peer group for their Transition & 3 Day school years. The teacher/child ratio for these Programs is 1:4 or 1:5.
Goals for the Transition Program are as follows:

• To provide a safe, caring environment, which fosters growth and the development of positive social interactions
• To support and enhance wonderings and curiosities about the world
• To encourage independence and self-exploration
• To provide individual and group learning experiences
• To expose children to a myriad of open-ended materials that invite exploration and discovery

To help fulfill these goals, teachers interact with a group of 12-13 children in a loving and supportive manner and offer a daily schedule that includes a morning gathering, indoor and outdoor explorations, art studio invitations, a community snack, and a goodbye gathering.

Educators encourage a sense of autonomy in children by providing an environment that is rich with inspirational materials that offer independent and group interaction. Educators listen closely to children’s ideas in order to deepen and extend their play.

At Hanna, we place high value on a smooth transition from home to school through home visits, Social Stories, classroom tours, and individual family guidance. Parents are encouraged to work with their teachers during the transition/separation process and we respect that the timing will vary for each child.

3 Day

Schedule: 3 Days a Week - 9:00 am to 12:30 p.m.

Annual Tuition: $9790 or $11140 (Extended Day)

The Hanna Fenichel Center Center offers a 3 Day program for children 3-4 years of age. This program is designed for children to begin exploring projects and investigations that are based on their curiosities about the world around them. Discovering and experimenting is viewed as learning and is essential to development. The classrooms provide open-ended possibilities. This emergent curriculum supplies experiential opportunities for making observations, asking questions, and testing hypotheses. In this way, children can develop the skills essential for future learning by way of discovering the many ways these skills can be implemented in different environments.
Goals for the 3 Day Program are as follows: Social Growth:

• To gain respect for the rights and feelings of others
• To foster cooperative play situations
• To develop and expand conflict-resolution skills

Emotional Growth:

• To encourage independent thought and understanding of feelings and behaviors
• To support the expression of emotions
• To gain consideration for others
• To provide support in the process of separation

Cognitive Growth:

• To facilitate the development of each child’s ability to think logically
• To use words and ideas clearly and to apply knowledge
• To provide an environment rich in opportunities as an avenue to practice skills necessary for future success
• To ask questions and follow lines of inquiry

Physical Growth:

• To facilitate the development of small and large motor skills

To achieve these goals, the program offers a welcome meeting, indoor and outdoor exploration, community snack, small group and large group investigations, and a goodbye gathering.

Prekindergarten

Schedule: Monday through Thursday from 8:50 a.m. to 1:20 p.m., Fridays from 8:50 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Annual Tuition: $16,150

Hanna's Prekindergarten program is for children 4-5 years of age and the classes are made up of 13-14 children with two educators. This program is designed for children to explore projects and investigations more deeply and to prepare children for their transition into kindergarten. Our classrooms provide an open-ended, emergent curriculum with many opportunities for making observations, asking questions, and testing hypotheses arising from direct experience. Discovery and experimentation is key learning and essential to multi-level development. This program, as in all our classrooms, seeks to help children develop a positive disposition toward future learning environments.
The goals of the Prekindergarten Program are as follows:
Social & Emotional Growth:

• To gain respect for the rights and feelings of others
• To foster cooperative play
• To develop and expand conflict resolution skills
• To encourage independent thought and understanding of feelings and behaviors
• To support the expression of emotion

Intellectual Growth:

• To facilitate the development of each child’s ability to think logically
• To use words and ideas clearly and to apply knowledge
• To provide an environment rich in opportunities to practice skills necessary for future academic success
• To ask questions and follow lines of inquiry

Physical Growth:

• To facilitate the development of small and large motor skills through daily play and the daily use of classroom materials
• Support hand skills, such as proper pencil/tool positioning, essential for handwriting

Kindergarten Readiness:

• Alphabet and numerical recognition
• Early phonemic awareness
• Ability to write and recognize own name and other important words/names in the child's experiences
• Group turn-taking skills
• Learning collaboration and collective group agreement strategies.
  To achieve these goals, the program offers a morning gathering and storytime, a Reflection Meeting, indoor and outdoor explorations, open snack time, small and large group learning groups, and a goodbye gathering.
  

Garden Classroom

Our Garden Classroom, located in our upper outdoor space, is serenly shaded by a bountiful pepper tree and constructed of repurposed building materials. The area is primarily focused on providing our children with a natural environment for collaborative exploration of nature. Abundant raw materials (such as stones, sticks and pinecones), along with other loose parts and compostables are examples of the organic composition that makes the Garden Classroom such a special place for exploration and discovery. Here, children are encouraged to work together, imploring their imaginations to discover the world's physical elements. Examples of discovery include children working in the mud kitchen, maintaining the raised garden beds, bird and lizard watching, examining insects through microscopes, and much more. Our explorations are deepened by plenty of books and music. Smokey and Marshmallow, friendly rabbits and members of our school family, live in the garden and are tenderly cared for by the children of the school.