Cassidy Preschool is an early childhood center in Santa Monica serving infants, toddlers, preschoolers and children in developmental kindergarten, and offering caregiver-participation parent-and-me classes plus weekly enrichment options.
Cassidy Preschool is an early childhood center in Santa Monica that serves children from infancy through developmental kindergarten. The school describes a play-based, developmentally appropriate environment that emphasizes hands-on learning, social-emotional growth, and close relationships between teachers and children.
The program combines multiple early-childhood philosophies into a balanced, developmentally appropriate curriculum focused on exploration, play, and meaningful teacher-child relationships. Classrooms use hands-on activities, music, movement, outdoor exploration, and routines to support social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development.
Staff are described as a collaborative faculty committed to professional growth, with small child-to-teacher ratios and an emphasis on relationship-centered teaching. The school highlights partnerships with families and seasonal, small-group caregiver-participation classes intended to build community and parent support.
Hands-on after-school enrichment offerings in areas such as sports, pottery, cooking, music and theater, scheduled from 2:00 to 4:00 PM.
A play-based environment emphasizing hands-on literacy, math, science and problem-solving with routines that promote independence and responsibility.
A play-based classroom described as a gentle first school experience using music, movement, play, outdoor exploration and routines to build early skills and confidence.
A morning add-on that offers supervised early arrival beginning at 8:15 AM with calm play and gentle morning activities.
Caregiver-participation classes that meet once a week in seasonal sessions and combine developmentally appropriate play experiences with guided discussion and parenting topics, led by licensed marriage and family therapists.
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A classroom focused on imaginative play, early literacy and math experiences, art, science and outdoor learning to support independence and social-emotional development.
An afternoon extension of the school day from 2:00 to 4:00 PM providing outdoor play, creative activities and relaxed social time.
A developmental kindergarten year intended to support early literacy, math, problem-solving and social-emotional learning for children needing an additional year before elementary school.
Weekly enrichment classes for toddlers that include music, Spanish through music, process-based messy art, and semi-structured free-play sessions to support physical, cognitive and sensory development.
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