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  • Programs
    • Green Apple Garden Playschool (0-6)
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    • Apple Scouts Nature Immersion Camp (5-12)
    • Parent/Family Programs
    • School Calendar
    • Tuition Information
    • Scholarship Information
    • Family Policy Handbook
  • About
    • Our COVID-19 Response
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    • Our Board >
      • Board Minutes
    • Our Philosophy >
      • Social Justice Branches
      • Resources
    • FAQ
    • How We Got Started
  • Careers
    • Pay and Benefits
    • Apply
    • Administrative Assistant
    • One-to-One Preschool Aide
    • Apple Scouts Camp Counselor
    • [Hourly] Apprentice Teacher/Maestros Aprendices Job Description
    • [Hourly] Flex Teacher Job Description
    • [Hourly] Substitute Teacher Job Description
  • Events
    • Apple Fest
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Frequently Asked Questions

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What is a playschool?
The term “playschool” aims to describe an environment in which teachers guide the children to learn through play. Playschools encourage a child to wonder, to think, to feel and to imagine, and place a greater emphasis on experiential and social-emotional learning, rather than academic skills.

What is play-based education?
A play-based education allows children to do their learning through play, which is the fundamental and most meaningful work in childhood. Lessons are learned through the process of play, rather than through formal academic learning. For example, instead of memorizing letter and number names, children in the preschool might be encouraged to develop a love for reading through drama, puppetry, reading stories, and maybe even forming letters with sand or clay. Instead of learning formal math, the children might learn basic math concepts through baking projects or making a pretend market stand.

What is the Reggio Emilia Approach?
The Reggio Emilia philosophy is based upon the following set of principles:
  • Children must have some control over the direction of their learning;
  • Children must be able to learn through experiences of touching, moving, listening, seeing, and hearing;
  • Children have a relationship with other children and with material items in the world that children must be allowed to explore and
  • Children must have endless ways and opportunities to express themselves.
Apple Playschools is a member of the North American Reggio Emilia Alliance.

What is Environmental Education?
Environmental education refers to organized efforts to teach about how natural environments function and, particularly, how human beings can manage their behavior and ecosystems in order to live sustainably. (read more: Wikipedia)

What is Emergent Curriculum?
Emergent curriculum is a way of planning curriculum based on the student’s interest and passions as well as the teacher’s. To plan an emergent curriculum requires observation, documentation, creative brainstorming, flexibility and patience. Rather than starting with a lesson plan which requires a “hook” to get the children interested, emergent curriculum starts with the children’s interests.  (read more: Wikipedia)

What does child centered mean?
"Child-centered" is a term used in education that means the interests of the child guide the learning process.

Green Apple Garden Lower Playschool

Green Apple Garden Upper Playschool

Manzanitas Spanish Immersion Playschool

Laura Wolfe, Director
734-773-3182
2664 Miller Rd. 
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Brandi Siemers, Director
734-369-6563
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511 Miller Ave. 
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Leticia Diaz-Gonzalez, Director
734-975-9104
2626 Packard St. 
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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