Seedlings Curriculum

Parent & Child

The MPCS Seedlings Parent and Child Classes provide a warm, welcoming space for families to learn and grow. Auntie Susan, an experienced early childhood educator, will lead you and your little one through a gentle, predictable rhythm that features developmentally-appropriate, play-based activities for the children and inspiration and support for the parents.

Mountain Phoenix Community School Seedling Program Chalk Art

"An honest, entirely open feeling of gratitude must be developed, so that children experience it for everything received." - R. Steiner

Mountain Phoenix Community School Seedling Program. Parent and Child Raking Leaves

Class Curriculum

Each session is seasonally-centered and features unique projects. The rhythm will reflect the preschool/kindergarten school year, just on a smaller scale, so the content of the whole year is valuable. Play time and time to socialize with new friends is also ongoing, so a whole year will build those relationships with teacher, peers, parents, and the Mountain Phoenix Community.

The Seedlings Class offers quiet, mindful child observation time and nurturing living arts through:

  • time for parents to connect
  • social time
  • a hearty snack
  • creative time for parents
  • free play for children
  • songs, stories and circle time
  • information and articles about child development and education
Seedlings Enrollment Information

Meet Susan Skokan, Lead Teacher of the Seedlings Program

Susan has been working with children in early childhood since January 2007. She has been immersed in Waldorf Education and involved in MPCS since the summer of 2011. She also ran a licensed child care and home preschool from summer 2012 to Summer 2014. She has been a lead teacher in summer camps at the Denver Waldorf School.  Auntie Susan has two sons, one who attends MPCS, one has graduated from MPCS.

She has worked every position in the MPCS early childhood department, aside from directing it.

Education

  • LiveWays early childhood teacher certification – May 2014
  • Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy – May 2016
  • Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher certification- July 2019 through Sound Circle
  • Early Childhood Teacher certification – May 2008
  • MSU Arts Degree – emphasis Photography, minor English Writing
  • WECAN Continuing Teacher Education with Nancy Blanning and others – countless hours 2011 – present
  • Nurturing the Roots – will graduate July 2024

Loves: Children and their discoveries, their point of view. Art and creating art, being outside, water, music, poetry, nature, family, real conversations, thoughtfulness, yoga.

Why Auntie? Part of the LifeWays approach to children is that school is first an extension of home and family. Your children are warmly welcomed here.

Susan started teaching at MPCS in 2011. From 2016-2021 she taught homeschool kindergarten. She founded the Seedlings Program in 2016 and continues serving infants, toddlers and parents. Festivals and connections with families are the highlights of the years!

 

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