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Early Childhood Program (PreKindergarten: Ages 3-5)

At The Colorado Springs School, PreK students are inspired to wonder, create, and discover through a joyful, hands-on learning experience. Drawing from Montessori, Waldorf, and Reggio Emilia principles, our program nurtures independence, curiosity, creativity, and connection through engaging classroom exploration, STEM inquiry, the arts, storytelling, outdoor learning, and imaginative play. In a supportive mixed-age community, children build confidence, practice collaboration, and develop the foundational skills they need to thrive in Kindergarten and beyond.

Discover how our curriculum thoughtfully blends Montessori, Waldorf, and Reggio Emilia philosophies, emphasizing hands-on exploration and a process-over-product approach that values how children learn, not just what they produce. Montessori gives us our structural principles: independence, mixed-age community, and the prepared environment. Waldorf gives us the arts, the rhythm, and the deep connection to the natural world. Reggio Emilia gives us the investigative, inquiry-driven, family- partnered approach to learning that runs through everything we do. Together, they produce something that is coherent, intentional, and distinctly our own — a program designed not just to prepare children for Kindergarten, but to send them there as confident, curious, capable learners who already know what it feels like to be truly known, genuinely challenged, and deeply inspired.


Early Childhood Coordinator

Bronwyn Holman - bholman@css.org

(719) 434-3572