FABLE'S LEARNING POD
SEE WHAT A DAY IN
OUR POD LOOKS LIKE...
MORNING PLAY
Morning playtime is an essential part of our program, as it provides children with the opportunity to develop their imaginations, relationships, and problem-solving skills through creative, free play.
Upon arrival, children can choose to engage with homemade playdough, beeswax crayons, or quality chalk at the classroom table to express their creativity. The playroom is stocked with a variety of natural toys, felted foods, wood blocks, and children's literature for children to explore and play with. We also offer the option for children to play outside during this time.
After a morning of playtime, we transition to circle time by modeling the importance of putting our toys away. This helps children develop a sense of responsibility and prepare for the next activity of the day.
CIRCLE TIME
Circle time is a special time when we celebrate the season with stories, songs, and creative movement.
Once the playroom has been cleaned, we will invite the children to a game of Ring-Around the Rosie to encourage everyone to join hands in a circle.
Once settled in, we sing our Good Morning song and then introduce our story of the week, which includes singing and dancing. We will then read a story relevant to the lesson of the day.
Once we've finished circle time, we transition to lesson time by taking hands and singing our Come, Follow Me song as we lead the children to the classroom table.
LESSON OF THE DAY
During lesson time, we rotate between 3 different types of activities: World Exploration, Baking, and Artistic experiences.
Life skills are always intertwined in our days and help children feel a sense of belonging, responsibility, and accomplishment as they contribute to various life-based activities such as setting and clearing the table, washing aprons, washing dishes, sweeping the floor, etc...
On World Exploration Day we will learn about either a plant, an animal, a place, or a people (or more than one) through beautiful worksheets and hands-on crafts.
On Baking Day, children get to pour, mix, knead, shape, and prepare a variety of baked goods for the season.
For Artistic Experiences, we rotate between wet-on-wet watercolor painting and other mediums of art & seasonal crafts.
When our lesson time is finished, we clean up and prepare the table for snack time. Children are welcome to return to the playroom during this interlude, but we encourage everyone to help clean by modeling the behavior.
SNACK + STORYTIME
Snack time is a delicious and nourishing part of our day. We rotate between warm whole grains like rice pudding, oatmeal, and porridge, fresh fruit, vegetables, and cheese (which the children often cut themselves during lesson time), and baked goods that the children made themselves.
As we eat, we also enjoy stories or poems, building a strong foundation for literacy, sequential thinking, and a rich vocabulary through the tradition of oral storytelling, accompanied by engaging visuals and puppetry. As children finish their snacks, they'll begin washing and drying their dishes, putting them back on the shelf, clearing their place at the table, and getting dressed to go outside.
Children are welcome to return to the playroom during this interlude as they wait their turn for the restroom.
OUTDOOR EXPLORE
Outdoor playtime is a highlight of our day, and we spend a good amount outside each day, rain or shine, to build resilient bodies and a strong connection to the natural world.
In our garden, the children enjoy watering plants, weeding and raking, planting seeds, and harvesting fruits and vegetables. This helps them connect with the earth and develop a reverence for where our food comes from.
In our field, children are free to run, roll, and play games like hide-and-seek. Our property has a forest area in the back for building forts or sitting on large logs or rocks. At the mud kitchen, the children enjoy collecting an assortment of garden treasures to make soups of all kinds. We teach them how to identify different herbs and vegetables, and many of them usually take their treasures home.
We have a play-set with swings. There is a trampoline on property however, we will not be using.
When it's time to go home, parents come to pick up their children from outside, and our day comes to an end.
ABOUT OUR POD
Fable's Learning Pod is a non-formal
learning program that is Waldorf-inspired in character following a daily and seasonal rhythm. I draw from various Forest School, Montessori and homeschooling curricula.
Spaces
The WALDORF room, painted in the traditional LAZURE style in colors pink and yellow specific to the preschool age, instilling maternal, nurturing feelings.
The kitchen for our baking days and snack time on a toddler sized table and chairs, perfect for building independent life-skills. And a place for children to practice washing & drying dishes. Large playroom with playhouses and natural play-structures such as the Pikler Triangle Set, arched bridge and rocker and balance rocking board. And last is the backyard with a large garden, forest area, play-set, airplane play-set mud-kitchen.
Days/time/COST
Fall Season
(Sep. 10th - Dec. 20th)
$129/week
$1,935/fall season
Tuesday's and
Thursday's 9am-12pm
We follow the
Pittsford Central School District's calendar with options of holiday camps.
*There is a one-time fee of $85 at registration for materials.
AGE
Fable Learning Pod
is currently open for ages 3-5 years of age. Children must be potty trained.
FALL 2024
CAPACITY IS 5 CHILDREN
Capacity may go up to 6-7 for the Winter/Spring session.
