Our Mission 

The Mothership is a heart-based preschool with an organic learning environment that focuses on evoking the full essence of each child in order to nurture families and support our community. We do this through a curriculum that focuses on embracing the whole child and includes the arts, nature discovery, music, and mindfulness. As a result, our children feel seen, thrive in their learning environment, develop deep empathy and curiosity for the world around them, and use their creativity to solve problems.

Our Values

respect for everyone and everything

It is vital to honor a child’s competence and capabilities.

To support their individual aptitude we provide a developmentally appropriate environment and materials to invite them to make independent choices. We also communicate clear boundaries that create an emotionally and physically safe space. We believe that the teacher and child should work together to design the structure of the classroom. Our schedule is guided and directed by the teacher but takes into account the child’s ideas.

Freedom with limits: we allow children to make choices to explore their world and believe they need boundaries for emotional and physical safety.

kindness

Our teachers model and teach being friendly, generous, and considerate. Showing kindness to others helps us connect with people and meets some of our basic human needs. Acts of kindness make us feel good about ourselves, and our lives. Being kind to others can be as simple as a single kind word, smile, or a thoughtful gesture. Kindness and caring also seem to be contagious. When we see someone do something kind or thoughtful, or we are on the receiving end of kindness, it inspires us to be kinder ourselves.

playfulness and creativity

Through imagination and lighthearted joy we express our core values at The Mothership. Every day we find ways to engage in storytelling, poetry, music, cooking, gardening, nature, art, yoga, and meditation. Creativity is the freest form of self-expression. There is nothing more satisfying and fulfilling for children than to be able to express themselves openly and without judgment. Our teachers consistently look for opportunities for our children to bring into being ideas and dreams that they have.