Welcome to Pathfinders!

Throughout the semester, science, math, and literacy concepts are interwoven in our learning investigations, and students conduct an ongoing project to delve deeper into the class’s topic. Each week’s class engages students through a variety of activities using art, stories, experiments, games, and other hands-on experiences. All Pathfinders classes offer one or two day per week options.

Classes for 5 to 6 yrs

Instructor: Karen Murray

A group of children seated on a colorful rug in a classroom, raising their hands to answer a question from a young boy sitting on a chair, holding a paper. The classroom has educational posters, a calendar, and a whiteboard in the background.

Build character!

Learning how to make good choices, be a friend, taking care of oneself, as well as caring about others, are lifelong skills that begin developing in these early years of childhood. Our class will emphasize how to make good choices for yourself and about others throughout the day. 

Three children, two girls and a boy, sitting on a green shaggy rug against a textured teal wall, reading a colorful book together.

Learn!

The Pathfinders class is based on a themed learning plan. Lessons and activities will engage all learning styles as we explore science, math, literacy, and art. Children learn best by doing and so our class is highly interactive and full of variety each day. Every class includes applicable CA educational standards blended seamlessly into our hands-on approach to learning. 

A young girl with dark hair in pigtails, sitting on grass outdoors, smiling, holding a clipboard with a worksheet, next to a blue bucket, under a tree.

Flourish!

Our classroom experience provides students many opportunities to develop friendships, problem solve independently and with others, build personal communication skills, mature in conflict resolution, grow in self-reliance, learn leadership, and more while having a lot of fun at the same time! 

Pathfinders in Action!

Two young children, a girl with brown hair and a boy with short hair, pour liquid from a red funnel into a plastic bottle through a white scoop at a table in a classroom or activity room.
A young boy with brown hair coloring a turtle drawing using watercolors at a classroom table.
Young boy lying on a colorful rug, observing three small hourglasses with different colored sands (green, white, red) placed in front of him.
A smiling teacher with four young girls and one young boy in a classroom.
Two children playing in a tree, one smiling at the camera and the other holding a rock.
Two young boys sitting on a blue mat, looking at a picture book together in a dimly lit room.
Young girl with painted blue hands smiling and holding her hands near her face.
Four children playing on a swing set outdoors, with trees and fallen leaves in the background.
A young boy wearing a black cap and gray shirt looks through a microscope on a school desk. The desk has a colorful quilted pouch and a worksheet with drawings and text.
A young girl with blonde hair in a braid draws with markers on a whiteboard.
Young girl wearing a pink shirt, holding a paper cutout of lungs, with a paper brain on her head. She is smiling at the camera.