Happy Hearts Preschool is a licensed childcare center in Petaluma that offers play-based, nature-focused early childhood education and seasonal summer camps for children roughly from age two through pre-kindergarten. The school is licensed for 61 children and operates from a location at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds.
Happy Hearts Preschool is a licensed early childhood center in Petaluma that serves children from about age two through the pre-kindergarten year. The school emphasizes daily outdoor time and multi-age interaction, with most activities taking place outside in varying weather.
The program follows a child-centered, play-based philosophy that stresses active exploration, hands-on materials, and nature-based learning. Classrooms include structured group times (music, stories, movement) alongside extended unstructured play and long-term projects. A hands-on pre-writing curriculum is used in the older preschool classroom.
The center is licensed for 61 children. Each classroom typically has two to three teachers, and the site notes multiple teachers present on the playground during outdoor time. The program descriptions indicate small group sizes and low student-to-teacher ratios.
A relationship-based pre-kindergarten program emphasizing independence, leadership, long-term projects, early literacy and pre-writing using a hands-on curriculum; includes walking field trips and enrichment experiences.
A gentle, nurturing introduction to preschool with smaller class sizes, play-based learning, daily outdoor time, and short group experiences including music and stories.
A preschool program for potty-trained children that balances intentional group times (music, stories, movement) with extended outdoor play and nature-based learning; full-day option available.
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