Our Philosophy
Here at Seed and Sprout we aim to provide a high-quality play-based learning environment for ages 16-months to 4-years-old. Our program will support each child’s individuality through a holistic teaching approach, that allows children to be innovative and independent, learning from the world around them. We have created a safe environment for children to develop their motor functions, social-emotional and cognitive skills through meaningful exploration and discovery. Educators at Seed and Sprout are facilitators and mentors excited to guide children through their developmental journey.
The space that children will indulge in indoor play, is designed as an open floor plan that allows children to freely choose what provided materials to play with to satisfy their curiosity. Teachers will model and teach appropriate and respectful language to use while children interact with one another, and act as a mentor in this child-centered environment. Our outdoor space will include a mud kitchen and other parts of nature for children to explore and expand their knowledge and problem-solving skills.
The idea at Seed and Sprout is that influencing a child’s development is done through their perception, physical anatomy, neurological consciousness, valued enlightenment, experiences in opportunity, and emotional connections. As education facilitators we must accept all things nature gives children and nurture it through teaching them to develop empathy and self-efficacy, to lead our future generations in an ethical and logical way.
The Seed & Sprout Way
OUR MISSION
SAFETY
The purpose of Seed & Sprout Day school is to provide care in a safe and nurturing environment that encourages whole-child development. We have created a safe environment for children to develop their motor functions, social-emotional and cognitive skills through meaningful exploration and discovery.
OUR GOAL
EDUCATION
Our program supports each child’s individuality through a holistic teaching approach that allows children to be innovative and independent, learning from the world around them. At Seed & Sprout, influencing a child’s development is done through their perception, physical anatomy, neurological consciousness, valued enlightenment, experiences in opportunity, and emotional connections.
OUR FOCUS
ATTENTIVENESS
Educators at Seed & Sprout are facilitators and mentors excited to guide children through their developmental journey. As education facilitators we must accept all things nature gives children and nurture it through teaching them to develop empathy and self-efficacy, to lead our future generations in an ethical and logical way.
Shelby Lynch
Director, Primary Educator
I am Shelby Lynch, a passionate educator striving to create a new enriching early childhood education program with a foundation that supports children’s individuality. I teach through a pedagogy that considers the needs of the whole child and differentiate my approach accordingly to help provide opportunities for children to meet their needs. With over nine years of experience in education, I have worked with children in early childhood settings through fifth grade. My teaching philosophy entitled, “Body in Mind Experience Theory” is forever evolving and influenced by world renowned educators/philosophers Maria Montessori, William Glasser, and Rudolf Steiner.
I was born and raised in Chesapeake, Virginia, and no stranger to beach life. I come from a family of educators, sparking the passion to mold the next generation from an early age. I am an Old Dominion Graduate with the following accomplishments; Elementary Education B.S. and an Early Childhood Education Career Certificate. I also have additional training such as; Basic Intensive and Advanced Training in Choice Theory Reality Therapy- US Glasser Institute, Responsive Classroom for Elementary Schools, Responsive Classroom - Responding to Misbehavior and ten years of experience as a Summer Camp Lead Teacher doing program design in dance, musical theater, sports, art, pre-kindergarten, and fun zone sports and craft activities.
The Teacher I Will Be...
Told through My ABC’s!
Teaching is achieved through a process including many different things.
I will teach through:
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acknowledging student accounts of astonishment and awe
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building a bond connecting bewilderment and beauty
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creating a classroom crowded with courage and curiosity
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designing a dimension of their minds devoted to determination
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efficiently educating everyone with the effect of empowerment
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freedom in finding fun, fascinating ways to finesse our future
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giving and gaining a growth mindset grade-by-grade
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helping to hone healthy, holistic habits heated with happiness
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initiating individualism in their inspiration and imagination
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joining joy to their journey through this jigsaw jungle that is life
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knowing how to keep kids kindling with kindness
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lighting up their love of learning by living vs. listening to lectures
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making mindfulness their main mentor I hope to teach to
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navigate the normality and nature of others’ neurology
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open opposition to optimism and opinions to opportunities
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perform proficiently with professionalism to give power to my portfolio
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quiet any quarrels through questions of quality vs. quantity
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reiterate the role of retaining respect and resilience to reconstruct reality
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sustain students’ sight on subject selection sharing
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trust the time tended tagging and treasuring true talent
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urge universal understandings and utilize the unknown
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venture vastly on the voyages seen by visionaries
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weave a web of wonder and willingness to weigh in on the world
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exemplify exciting learning through exonerating exemplars
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yield youngsters yearning to learn year after year
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zealous and zany kids whose minds tend to zigzag