Le Petit Elephant Nursery and Preschool is an outdoor-based, English/Spanish bilingual childcare centre in Napa serving children from infancy through early elementary age. The centre uses a play-based curriculum that integrates elements of Waldorf, Montessori, RIE and Reggio-Emilia approaches.
Le Petit Elephant provides year-round early childhood care and education for children from infancy through approximately six years old. The program emphasizes substantial outdoor time and bilingual (English/Spanish) experiences.
The centre uses a play-centered curriculum that blends Waldorf, Montessori, RIE and Reggio-Emilia principles, with an emphasis on learning through hands-on discovery, multi-sensory activities, creativity, and social collaboration. Classrooms prioritize natural materials and a home-like environment, and the program includes daily music and children's yoga.
Instruction is strongly outdoor-focused and includes access to garden space. The site describes an on-site organic garden used as part of the curriculum and frequent outdoor playtime to connect children with nature.
The centre describes using non-toxic, mostly wooden toys and discouraging single-use plastics. It supports breastfeeding and cloth diapering. Staff are described as meeting or exceeding California childcare licensing requirements, with lead preschool teachers having completed required early childhood coursework and lead infant teachers having specialized infant-development training.
Serves infants ages 6 weeks through 24 months; programming hours described as 7:30am–5:30pm.
Serves children ages 2 through 4 years; programming hours described as 7:30am–5:30pm, with half-day schedules also available.
Transitional Kindergarten and Kindergarten program for children ages 4 through 6 years with year-round hours described as 7:30am–5:30pm.
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