Year-round, with two-, three-, or five-day weeks. Mix half-day, school-day, and full-day to fit your family.
At LPC, we nurture children who are happy, curious, and socially and emotionally confident. We follow the child’s natural curiosity and spontaneous activity throughout the day, using this understanding to guide our interactions and curriculum. Rather than immediately correcting or directing, we make space for children to explore their own thinking, form theories, and express ideas, recognizing children as capable thinkers and philosophers.
Through our emergent curriculum, we follow children’s interests and cues. Our teachers use these moments to notice when a child is ready to learn more, and then gently build on that momentum.
In a play-based classroom, learning is active. Building with blocks, making art, digging in the sand, working out a dispute in the dramatic-play corner, experimenting with sensory materials, solving a problem together outside — every one of those is where critical thinking, language, literacy, math, science, and social skills get built.
Teachers set up the room around what the children are interested in right now. Materials and layouts invite open-ended exploration without taking over.
Play is also how kids learn the social-emotional skills they can only learn from each other: communicating ideas, taking turns, regulating emotions, practicing empathy, navigating friendships, sticking with hard things. Those skills are the foundation everything else gets built on.
See a day in the life at LPC Where our walking field trips go
Classes run with two or three teachers for every eight children. That means more lap time, more one-on-one attention, and fewer handoffs when a child needs a grown-up they already know. Toddlers explore through sensory play, music, art, and outdoor discovery.
Classes run at 2:10 — two teachers for every ten children. Fewer transitions, more one-on-one time with teachers who know your child’s name, quirks, and current obsession. Our emergent curriculum follows that knowledge: through projects, art, storytelling, and outdoor exploration, preschoolers build the habits they’ll carry into kindergarten.
Mixed-age classrooms reflect the understanding that children grow at different rates and that age doesn’t define ability. Each child is supported where they are, with gentle encouragement to grow and opportunities to learn alongside younger, same-age, and older peers (just like a family).
| Schedule | Hours |
|---|---|
| Half-day | 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM |
| School-day | 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM |
| Full-day | 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
Early drop-off at 7:30 or 7:45 AM is available. Other pickup times (4:00, 4:30) can be arranged.
Your child’s class keeps the same teachers and ratios all summer — the days just move outdoors, with water play, theme days, and visits from baby goats, magicians, and the occasional ice cream truck. Kids heading to kindergarten get a camp all their own: Big Kids Camp.
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Tours can be arranged any weekday morning, usually between 9:30 and 11:00 AM, and typically last about half an hour. Walk the classrooms, meet the teachers, see the playground.
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