Our Program

We specialize in early education and provide families in Brooklyn with a space to construct individual and collective learning. Our program is designed for children ages 2-5.

Through a Reggio Emilia-inspired, and evidence-based approach, we focus on building autonomy and collaboration as children build self-esteem and a sense of community.

Enrollment is open for our Summer Program and the 2024-25 School Year Program (September-June).

Full-time and part-time offerings.

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We believe that children need, more than ever, creative and artistic learning to help them process and navigate the social circumstances we live in and creatively respond to them.

Education is about helping children understand themselves and the world around them, thereby cultivating a culture of compassion and awareness.

At Green Hive, children will be exposed to a great variety of media for exploration, and sensory play and use art and music to learn problem-solving skills, social-emotional skills, and cognitive skills.

Reggio Emilia Approach

The Reggio Emilia Approach is a research-based and child-centered early education philosophy founded on the premise that children are powerful and capable individuals with the ability and desire to construct their own knowledge.

The schools of Reggio Emilia began as a grassroots parent initiative. With the end of World War II, parents in Italy banded together and founded the town’s first pre-school. They had a vision for a new kind of school where children would be treated with respect and parents would be active participants in their education.

The core pedagogy calls for observing what children know, are curious about, and what challenges them. Teachers record these observations to reflect on developmentally appropriate ways to help children expand their academic and social potentials.

Children are allowed to explore and discover in a supportive and rich environment, where the curriculum is created around the children’s interests.

International recognition of the Reggio preschools exploded in 1991 when a panel of experts commissioned by Newsweek magazine identified the Reggio Emilia preschools as one of the “best top ten schools in the world.”

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