Our school culture and curriculum encourages our young children to learn about their environment through direct and concrete experiences. To aid in this hands-on learning approach, we provide opportunities for exploration, discovery, experimentation and documentation within child-centered classrooms, both indoors and outdoors.
Our Early Childhood program provides award-winning outdoor play spaces that cultivate imaginations and pretend play; offer hands-on experiences with sand, mud, water, dirt and flower and vegetable gardens; build visual-spatial skills; strengthen powers of observation; improve the ability to concentrate, and enhance motor skills such as coordination, balance and agility. A focus on health and wellness is promoted through our nature education, outdoor play and healthy food options.
The children will participate in gardening activities throughout the year; planting, weeding, harvesting, composting, tasting, plant identification, etc. Our Nature Educator will guide the children to explore, learn and respect the gardening process while teaching them the importance of sustainable gardening.
We are pleased to announce that our Early Childhood Department has received national recognition as a Certified Nature Explore Classroom from the Nature Explore program, a division of Dimensions Educational Research Foundation. The certification has been a long process, and we are honored to be the first program in Richmond to be recognized!
The Edible Schoolyard at the Weinstein JCC is a place where the whole center can go to learn, explore, eat and get dirty! We have 14 growing areas, including two raised beds with benches for easy sitting and gardening. Our gathering circle is made of boulders, and we gather there for class discussions and storytimes. Our greenhouse gives us the ability to get a head start on the seasons as well as a warm place to eat a snack and listen to the rain. It’s the perfect place for a picnic and in-depth investigations.
We use the garden to produce food that the children eat during class lessons and in our snacks as well as donations to our on-site food pantry. We hold classes and volunteer days to involve the larger community, and we love seeing children showing their parents around the garden after they’ve been picked up from preschool or Kids’ Place. Our Edible Schoolyard is a really special place, and we work very hard to care for it. We hope you’ll come see for yourself how wonderful our garden space is!
The Weinstein JCC Early Childhood program is supported in part by:
The Edward J. Becker Family Preschool Children’s Endowment Fund
Margarete Hirsch & Suzanne Hirt Preschool Children’s Endowment Fund
Dora L. Lewis Child Development Fund
Our school culture and curriculum encourages our young children to learn about their environment through direct and concrete experiences. To aid in this hands-on learning approach, we provide opportunities for exploration, discovery, experimentation and documentation within child-centered classrooms, both indoors and outdoors.
Our Early Childhood program provides award-winning outdoor play spaces that cultivate imaginations and pretend play; offer hands-on experiences with sand, mud, water, dirt and flower and vegetable gardens; build visual-spatial skills; strengthen powers of observation; improve the ability to concentrate, and enhance motor skills such as coordination, balance and agility. A focus on health and wellness is promoted through our nature education, outdoor play and healthy food options.
The children will participate in gardening activities throughout the year; planting, weeding, harvesting, composting, tasting, plant identification, etc. Our Garden Educator will guide the children to explore, learn and respect the gardening process while teaching them the importance of sustainable gardening.
We are pleased to announce that our Early Childhood Department has received national recognition as a Certified Nature Explore Classroom from the Nature Explore program, a division of Dimensions Educational Research Foundation. The certification has been a long process, and we are honored to be the first program in Richmond to be recognized!
The Edible Schoolyard at the Weinstein JCC is a place where the whole center can go to learn, explore, eat and get dirty! We have 14 growing areas, including two raised beds with benches for easy sitting and gardening. Our gathering circle is made of boulders, and we gather there for class discussions and storytimes. Our greenhouse gives us the ability to get a head start on the seasons as well as a warm place to eat a snack and listen to the rain. It’s the perfect place for a picnic and in-depth investigations.
We use the garden to produce food that the children eat during class lessons and in our snacks as well as donations to our on-site food pantry. We hold classes and volunteer days to involve the larger community, and we love seeing children showing their parents around the garden after they’ve been picked up from preschool or Kids’ Place. Our Edible Schoolyard is a really special place, and we work very hard to care for it. We hope you’ll come see for yourself how wonderful our garden space is!
The Weinstein JCC Early Childhood program is supported in part by:
The Edward J. Becker Family Preschool Children’s Endowment Fund
Margarete Hirsch & Suzanne Hirt Preschool Children’s Endowment Fund
Dora L. Lewis Child Development Fund
Monday 5AM-10PM
Tuesday 5AM-10PM
Wednesday 5AM-10PM
Thursday 5AM-10PM
Friday 5AM-6PM
Saturday 7AM-6PM
Sunday 7AM-6PM
Pool opens 30 minutes after facility opening and closes 30 minutes prior to facility closing.
Monday 5AM-10PM
Tuesday 5AM-10PM
Wednesday 5AM-10PM
Thursday 5AM-10PM
Friday 5AM-6PM
Saturday 7AM-6PM
Sunday 7AM-6PM