Empathy is a very important topic of development at La Playa. We talk about it during our “parent talkovers.” And we practice it daily with the preschoolers. Empathy is our ability to imagine how another person is feeling in a specific situation and respond to them with care. This takes a while for young children […]
We created a quiet space in our classroom. It is basically a table with a tablecloth on it (hanging down slightly to create a feeling of privacy). Underneath it we placed pillows and a cushiony rug. Due to Covid we had removed many places where the children would be placed next to each other. We […]
Teacher Ruth recently retired from La Playa Cooperative Nursery School after working here for almost three decades. She has been an important part of La Playa all these years and has helped to bring La Playa into the twenty-first century. Ruth added a lot of great ideas to the classroom along with fantastic parent education […]
Planting & Growing In the fall of 2021 our planters were empty. The beauty of a parent-participation preschool is that parents are actively involved, so one of our parents brought in some potatoes for us to plant. The children planted the potatoes and took great care watering them over the next four and a […]
Living in Los Angeles, there isn’t a lot of experience with rain. However, the last few months have had a number of rainy days. Usually parents like to keep their children inside to keep them dry during these days, but at La Playa Cooperative we go outside when it rains. We know that this is […]