We Strive to inspire young minds!
We Strive to inspire young minds!
We Strive to inspire young minds!
We Strive to inspire young minds!
Mission Statement:
Our mission is to provide reliable and high-quality care for children. We strive for excellence in care and education. Our enriched environment promotes independent thinking and the development of a positive self-image in all our students. We believe that children develop at their own pace and that teachers are intended to scaffold, or assist, them in reaching their highest potential through personal connection and the exploration of interests. We recruit and hire applicants who share our mission. We have a thorough onboarding process that includes basic training and thorough background checks, and we support staff in on-going Professional Development so that they can actively support the growth and development of children with current research and information. Wildflower provides above the industry standard norm benefits as well as competitive compensation. We maintain a Culture of Care throughout our program for our children, families, and staff.
Vision Statement:
Wildflower Preschool is committed to cultivating and caring for our entire community of children, families and staff. We believe in open communication, collaboration, and strength-based practices that encourage individual growth. We embrace the African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child”. It takes all of us; teachers, primary caregivers, and others in the community, to provide a safe and healthy environment where children can feel confident to explore and learn in order to realize their greatest potential as they venture out into the public school system or other private/parochial school environments.
We have 3 classrooms and we are a Universal Preschool Provider with the State of Colorado. This means our families receive a substantial discount per month during the year their child is 4 yrs old, on Oct 1 as per state guidelines.
Our highly qualified teachers enrich the environment daily to encourage child-directed exploration and sensorial learning. We establish daily home-like routines and incorporate gardening, cooking, art, free play, nature walks, and quiet-time in order to bridge the child’s transition from the home to school.
We follow the Colorado Early Learning & Development Guidelines through our use of The Creative Curriculum. We document children's academic and social-emotional progress by using Teaching Strategies Gold. We also use Second Step for additional curriculum support focused on social and emotional development.
We focus heavily on building relationship with all of our children and their families. (see our Vision Statement)
A Colorado Shines "Level 5" rating means Wildflower Preschool is recognized as being one of the top preschools in the state of Colorado.
We have 3 classrooms licensed for 20 students. We strive to keep our classroom enrollment at 14 students per day.
Each room has at least 2 teachers with often a third. This maintains a ratio of 1:4.5 or 1:7!
We believe the low numbers is what allows us to build deeper connections with our students and families. We can connect with each child one-on-one each day!
We are so fortunate to have a campus that is 4-5 acres where we can explore, enjoy nature walks, and ride bikes or scooters.
We grow an abundance of produce in our own family built organic garden. The children are a part of planting, watering and harvesting from May-October each year!
Our playground includes five mature fruit trees that provide plenty of shade in the summer! Our trike track, playhouse, sandbox and play equipment provide ample space to run and explore.
Wildflower Preschool has a fantastic team of teachers dedicated to early childhood development best practices. We use Pyramid Plus strategies to guide our practices with children.
All of our staff continue to further their education in order to increase our "team toolkit" that provides the best learning opportunities, the improvement of respectful social interactions along with many self-regulation strategies that empower self advocacy and compassion in children.
We have our own custom built bus with both 5 point harness carseats OR seat belts ,that we utilize for Field Trips with our preschool classes.
In the summers we also offer a School-Age Summer Camp called Boulder Young Explorers.
Some of our outings include Hiking, Bike Parks, Horseback Riding, The Denver Zoo, Wildlife Sanctuary, Downtown Aquarium, Dinosaur Ridge, Gold Mining, and MANY MORE!
Boulder Young Explorers is a School-Age summer camp created for the graduates of Wildflower Preschool and has expanded to include other school age children. The goal is to be outside exploring nature and our beautiful community. We intentionally schedule a wide variety of adventures and activities in order to connect with every child that attends our camp! Be sure to sign up early as there are only 13 spots in this exclusive summer camp!
Wildflower Preschool has worked diligently over many years to build a quality program. Colorado Shines recognizes Wildflower Preschool as one of the top preschools in the state of Colorado! Level 5 is the highest rating with COShines, so be assured that Wildflower Preschool has been vetted and certified as having the highest quality program.
Experts say 90% of a child's brain development occurs by age five - a fact that explains why early learning is a critical part of childhood and why enrollment in a quality program is so vital.
At Wildflower Preschool, we foster the child as a scientist; always experimenting, exploring nature, testing their hypotheses and continually molding their view of the world in which they live. We support emergent curriculum, but incorporate Creative Curriculum to integrate all for the developmental domains. Our teachers enrich the environment daily to encourage child-directed exploration and sensorial learning. We establish daily home-like routines and incorporate gardening, cooking, art, free play, nature walks, and quiet-time in order to bridge the child’s transition from the home to school. The development of social-emotional skills in our students is a key component in our classroom routines. We use a purchased social-emotional curriculum called Second Step, to help structure our instruction to support social and emotional competencies in our students.
Our school garden has naturally lent itself to nutritional instruction, healthy habits, and community work. Our children plant, water and harvest during the months of May to October!
Our field trips help keep children connected to their community. We visit local businesses, fire and police stations, libraries, parks and trails!
Fun Day at the Denver Zoo
With 4 acres of property, most of which is in its natural state, we have a lot of space to explore through nature walks, outdoor lessons, collecting insects, riding bikes, enjoying water days or our mud kitchen! It is exciting to see wild animals on our campus including rabbits, owls, robins, hawks, eagles, squirrels and many other animals that wander through our property.
When Wildflower moved locations it was the perfect opportunity for us to craft a new playground based on what we felt would be the fun for children. We converted an old fruit orchard retaining several trees within the playground. We built a play structure, a trike track, a playhouse, an astroturf area, added an outdoor art easel, built a HUGE group sand box as well as a mag wall board area.
Our classrooms are licensed for 20 or more children, but our class sizes are held to 14 children. This gives us plenty of room for creative space, yoga, quiet time, and the ability to divide into smaller groups to comfortably work within the same classroom. We are able to meet the individual needs of each chilld and truly get to know them.
We work hard to provide many opportunities each year for our families.
We enjoy fostering connection between our families and growing a community in friendship!
Wildflower hosts multiple events each year to bring people together and share the joy of childhood with each other!
Some of our Events: Classroom Showcase, Fall & Spring BBQs, Fall Festivals or Pumpkin Patch, Gingerbread House Building, Pancakes and Pajamas, Spring Garden Prep Day, Student Art Show, Holiday Performances, and more!
Our large classrooms allow us to create spaces for play, such as our loft area, cozy spaces, libraries, dramatic play areas, block areas, sensory tables, and art stations.
We utilize our building common spaces for small group activities, baking, indoor recess during inclement weather, and family events.
Our garden has been a big hit each year. Every year we harvest an incredible amount of cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, strawberries, lettuce, kale, zucchini and sugar snap peas.
All of our produce is planted, watered, and eaten by the children and our families. The children LOVE vegetables from the garden!
We are a part of the Farm to Early Childhood Program and receive produce from a local organic CSA May-Oct each year. We use this produce to make snack for our children, or use it in cooking projects. We also send it home with staff and families!
Amy grew up in Boulder and is an outdoor person who enjoys cycling, hiking, camping, and the mountains. She loves to share her enthusiasm for the outdoors with the children. Amy has a Master's Degree in Elementary Education. After raising three children she dedicated herself to Early Childhood Education. Amy continued to study Leadership and completed the Buell Early Childhood Fellowship Program. Additionally, Amy has completed the Coaching Credential for Early Childhood through CU Denver and the Coaching Consortium in 2020.
Before joining Wildflower Preschool, Laura taught for over 9 years as a lead instructor at the Early Learning Program for the City and County of Broomfield. She has experience teaching children ages 2 to 6 years old. Laura loves engaging with children through play, reading, games, and plain old spontaneous fun!
Laura was born and raised on the east coast and has lived in Colorado for over 30 years. She and her husband of 23 years have raised two wonderful sons and are now empty nesters. Laura grew up sailing and had always lived near water. Although she enjoys the mountains, the ocean is never far from her heart.
Amanda has been an Early Childhood Educator since 2007, starting as an assistant teacher, then a certified teacher after completing 33 college credits in ECE. Recently, Amanda also earned her director certificate. On the side, Amanda is a licensed real estate agent and enjoys showing homes when not in the classroom. Amanda has three wonderful little boys named Madix, Brady, and Tanner. Amanda’s free time is often spent enjoying the outdoors with her husband and three kids.
Miss Ayelen, also known as “Miss Ash”, is from Argentina, where she completed her degree in Early Childhood Education. She has worked with children for over twelve years in different settings from preschool to scouts and summer camps. She moved to the United States in 2018 to learn English and experience American culture. Plans changed when she met her husband and Colorado became her new home. She loves spending time with her family, and nature, discovering new hikes and lakes, biking, and painting. During her time off she enjoys painting botanical portraits and selling her art in local markets. She is pursuing her certification as an Early Childhood Director at Red Rocks Community College and a certification as a Botanical Artist through the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Miss Rachael is a Colorado native who has had a passion for caring for children since she was a child herself. What started as babysitting turned into her graduating cum laude from the University of Northern Colorado in 2021 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education. She has worked with children ages 1-8 years old while working in a childcare setting and student teaching in elementary schools.
She enjoys exploring new things with children, connecting with others, making people laugh, and making learning fun! She loves to get on the children’s level and watch them blossom! In her free time, Rachael enjoys arts and crafts, trying new food, listening to music, and traveling. She is excited to be a part of the Wildflower Preschool team and community!
Miss Leandra moved to Colorado from Massachusetts in 2019 and earned a Bachelor of Science at Colorado State University in Human Development and Family Studies with concentrations in Early Childhood Professions and Prevention and Intervention Sciences. She has been working with children since 2018 as a teacher’s assistant kids club and then as a substitute elementary school teacher. Last two years she has been an assistant teacher at an early learning academy with children ages infant through PreK. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, hiking, shopping, and spending time with friends. Leandra’s favorite thing about working with children is that she gets to see the lightbulb click on when they learning something new. She is very excited to start at Wildflower and get to know everyone.
Miss Shea has been teaching for ten years since graduating from California State University of Channel Islands in 2013, with a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood. She grew up in California and taught there until 2019, before moving with her husband to Boston. The pandemic brought her back west and they settled down in Colorado in 2021, and have enjoyed every minute of living in this beautiful state. Moving multiple times has allowed Shea to work in a variety of preschools where she has gathered knowledge about many types of learning environments. She tries to incorporate nature regularly into her classroom and enjoys seeing the way children experience the open world around them and the innate curiosity they have for life in nature. When Shea is not teaching she takes care of her two dogs, a cat, and a house full of plants. Her hobbies include gardening, outdoor photography, mycology, cooking/baking, and practicing embroidery. Shea also has a fun and ever-growing collection of colorful tennis shoes, which I am sure you will all spot around the school.
Lael grew up in upstate New York then attended Houghton University and graduated with a degree in Inclusive Childhood Education with a concentration in Communications. Lael loves being outdoors and anything that has to do with being in nature; that can be hiking, rock climbing, long boarding or just walking with friends! Throughout her education, she was able to work in different school districts in rural western New York as well as summer camps through Cornell Cooperative Extension. These experiences gave her different opportunities to learn about ways to explore education and how to use discovery as a learning tool!
Romeo is a fun-loving guy who is passionate about acrobatics, creativity, and early childhood. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors from Louisiana Tech University with a degree in English Creative Writing and a Spanish minor. Romeo loves to adventure. From studying abroad in Costa Rica and Cambodia, to his work in New Orleans through Americorps, he strives to bring light to the importance of education and self-expression. He has worked in the classroom for several years and is always striving to be a better educator and communicator. Outside of school, he is also a competitive acrobat/circus performer as well as an aerial arts instructor in Boulder, Colorado.
Born and raised in Colorado, Breana (Bre) has always enjoyed caring for others. Especially the kids! Although she has thoroughly enjoyed her past roles working in childcare, babysitting, and as a nanny, the past two years she was able to have the opportunity to work in a Preschool setting with multiple children in the classroom; and fell in love! Now pursuing a degree in Early Childhohod Education, Bre is currently taking courses at CCD.
In her free time Bre loves to paint, watch movies, try new foods, and spend time with her loved ones.
Bre is looking forward to being a part of the Wildflower team!
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CURRENTLY Open 8:00-4:30 M-F starting 8/19/2024 we will be open 8:00-5:00 M-F
2023-2024 dates:
March 25-29 CLOSED Spring Break
April 29 (Monday) CLOSED Parent Teacher Conferences (Please sign up!)
May 27 CLOSED Memorial Day
July 4 CLOSED Independence Day
August 12-16 CLOSED Teacher Work Days
2024-2025 dates:
August 19 FIRST DAY of Fall Session 2024
September 2 CLOSED Labor Day
October 18 (Friday) CLOSED Parent Teacher Conferences (Please sign up!)
November 25-29 CLOSED for Thanksgiving Holiday
December 23-Jan 3. CLOSED for Winter Break
January 6, 2025 First Day Back-to-School 2025
March 24-28, 2025 CLOSED Spring Break
May 6 (Tuesday) CLOSED Parent Teacher Conferences (Please sign up!)
May 26, 2025 CLOSED Memorial Day
July 4, 2025 CLOSED Independence Day
August (TBA) CLOSED Teacher Work Days
August (TBA) First Day of Fall Session 2025
NOTE: We follow BVSD for weather school closures. Please see BVSD website for snow days or other weather closures. If BVSD is NOT in session Ms Amy will make the determination as to delay the start of the day or cancel school for the day due to weather and will notify families by 7:00 AM. If during the day the weather turns for the worse Ms Amy may CLOSE school early so families and teachers may drive home safely.
We look forward to meeting your family!
1370 Forest Park Circle, Lafayette, Colorado 80026, United States
Phone: 720-837-5387 Email: amy@wildflowerpreschool.com
Open today | 08:00 am – 04:30 pm |
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