Green Gables is a Waldorf inspired Play School with a mission to nurture children in the development of reverence and imagination, to wonder at beauty, and foster their genuine interest in the world. Green Gables Play School serves early childhood, ages 2 ½ - 6 years old, and provides other enrichment and camp-based programs for children 3½ - 10 years of age. Green Gables Play School has been serving Golden, Wheat Ridge, Arvada and the surrounding Denver area since 2015.
Rachel Cooper is the Owner/Director that is a nationally certified Waldorf teacher with 25 years of preschool teaching experience. Rachel is a treasure to all children and parents that are lucky enough to have her. With an abundance of experience, Rachel has been focused exclusively on Waldorf education for the last 17 years. She approaches early childhood education from a nurturing, therapeutic and restorative perspective.
Green Gables Play School resides in a haven of trees, sculpted landscape and blooming magical beauty. The school hosts a small farm of animals and garden. The Green Gables daily activities are almost exclusively outdoors with a beautiful indoor refuge for snack, and indoor play on cold or rainy days. Out in the elements the children have a large soft grassy lawn, various swings, rope ladders, balance beams, sand boxes, tree forts and other appropriate early childhood amenities.
Each day follows a masterfully flowing rhythm that leads the children through free play, circle, snack, story and farm life. Rachel is accompanied by a professional assistant teacher that together provide a warm, seamless and rich curriculum.
