{"id":73,"date":"2021-02-24T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2023-09-08T16:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T20:34:03","slug":"our-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/our-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We believe that learning through both facilitated and organic play during early childhood is essential preparation both for school and for life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our child centered classrooms are age appropriately set up allowing the children to explore, discover and create. The teachers encourage the children to play while also facilitating social skills along the way. While it seems that they are just playing, they are actually learning valuable social and communication skills and how to interact with their peers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"756\" height=\"1008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/boy_with_letter-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"boy with letter\" data-id=\"38\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/boy_with_letter-rotated.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/boy_with_letter\/\" class=\"wp-image-38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/boy_with_letter-rotated.jpg 756w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/boy_with_letter-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/boy_with_letter-655x873.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/girl_playing_in_the_sand-1024x906.jpg\" alt=\"girl playing in the sand\" data-id=\"45\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/girl_playing_in_the_sand.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/girl_playing_in_the_sand\/\" class=\"wp-image-45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/girl_playing_in_the_sand-1024x906.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/girl_playing_in_the_sand-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/girl_playing_in_the_sand-768x680.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/girl_playing_in_the_sand-1536x1359.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/girl_playing_in_the_sand-655x580.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/girl_playing_in_the_sand.jpg 1667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/four-friends-outside-hugging-b-class-1-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"252\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/four-friends-outside-hugging-b-class-1-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/four-friends-outside-hugging-b-class-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/four-friends-outside-hugging-b-class-1-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/four-friends-outside-hugging-b-class-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/four-friends-outside-hugging-b-class-1-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/four-friends-outside-hugging-b-class-1-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/four-friends-outside-hugging-b-class-1-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.stpaulsweekdayns.org\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/four-friends-outside-hugging-b-class-1-1-655x491.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We believe that learning through both facilitated and organic play during early childhood is essential preparation both for school and for life. 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