Play! Preschool

Play! Preschool is a future preschool of the Suzuki Academy of North Carolina. If you'd like more information, please write to ingrid [at] suzukiacademy.org.

To nurture in each child unusual creativity and skill, a lively curiosity, an awareness of subtleties, a strong sense of compassion, an adventurous frame of mind, and a spirit of working together for the success of all.

All people - and I mean scholars, researchers and teachers, who in any place have set themselves to study children seriously - have ended up by discovering?their surprising and extraordinary strengths and capabilities linked with an inexhaustible need for expression and realization. - Loris Malaguzzi

• Multi-age preschool classroom
• For children ages 3-6
• 2 teachers with up to 18 children
• Hours: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Monday through Friday
• Suzuki violin lessons

We are currently searching for a location in Chapel Hill or near the Orange/Durham County line.

Our philosophy and methods are drawn from the pedagogies of Suzuki, Montessori, schools of Reggio Emilia, the New England Conservatory's Learning Through Music Program, Howard Gardner, and the Project Zero research group at Harvard University.

At Play! we value:

• Expression, representation, and communication
• Reflection and inquiry
• Family and community involvement
• Learning through music
• Peace education
• Documentation as a means of making learning visible
• Innovation, creativity and wonderment