NOTHING WITHOUT JOY!

The mission of Spring Hollow is to help nurture and raise loving, happy, and confident students in a safe, inviting and beautiful learning environment; through activities that encourage accepting, collaborative and creative expression.

                              4207 Arno Road, Franklin TN 37064  (MAP)                                                  615-794-9343

  
 
 
 
 


CURRICULUM

Our curriculum creates an atmosphere of acceptance and support, which develops and enhances the child's self-esteem, self-discipline, identity, and acceptance toward others. It follows the Reggio Emilia approach in which curriculum is developed from the emerging interests of the children as they interact with their environment. To extend upon the goals of their Reggio Emilia inspirations to foster social development, Spring Hollow uses the tools of the Green Circle Curriulum. One proven benefit of the Reggio Emilia approach is that learning situations are created by the child's interaction with the environment, challenging the child both intellectually and emotionally.

Your children will make choices to experience their worlds through collage, dance, literature, nature, paint, pottery, puppet play, sculpture, singing, shadow play, and writing. Through these experiences, explorations, and creations, they will learn skills in altruism, art, autonomy, collaboration, drama, motor, music, problem solving, critical thinking, story telling, reading and math readiness.

This unique curriculum calls for documentation of the child's experiences by teachers and parents through mediums such as photography and observation note taking. Documentation is a tool for child and teacher collaboration to refine reflections and foster knowledge growth.

Spring Hollow's Teachers

  • The first teacher is the child. Children learn from themselves and their peers. Children have a natural ability to be autonomous, intelligent, kind, and creative. Children have the right to make choices, create, discover, explore and invent.
  • The second teacher is the environment. The environment is beautiful, inviting, and reciprocates knowledge.
  • The third teacher is the adult. Teachers and parents encourage the child's natural evolution of learning and are equal learning partners in the research process of knowledge growth.

Parents

Spring Hollow Early Learning Center relies on the collaboration of its parents to provide exceptional educational service tailored to the needs of individual children and families. Parents show their dedication to the child and to learning through participating in the curriculum, volunteering in the classroom, and providing material support. You can read about Parent Volunteer Responsibilities HERE.

Daily Schedule

9:05-9:20 Arrival/Sign In
9:20-9:45 Collaboration/Small Groups
9:45-11:30 Child-directed learning choices*/Snack
10:30    Last call for snack
11:30-11:45 Music/Movement
11:45-finish Lunch
after lunch-1:45 Child-directed learning choices*/Snack
1:45-2:15 Snack/Indoor learning choices
2:15-2:30 Cleanup
2:30-2:45 Stories/Quiet Time
2:45-3:00 Closing and dismissal/Sign Out 
* A teacher is outside for children to freely flow indoors and outdoors as they choose. 

To learn more about our curriculum, please read the following:

 

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Beyond Creatives 2009		   Spring Hollow Early Learning Center Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, gender, ability, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, in the administration of its education and admission policies. For more information, please call us at 615.794.9343 or send us an e-mail. We will get back to you as quickly as possible.