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We are a play-based preschool located in East Sacramento. We serve children ages 2-6. Come play with us soon!
Who We Are
Artenia Beast's Academy of Play is a community of children, parents and teachers engaged in student-centered learning that values child choice, social justice, culturally competent curriculum, and the natural world. Our educational environment is forged by the dynamic interaction of teachers, empowered and curious children, the families that love them, and our evolving understanding of how the brain learns best.
We Believe in Play
Artenia Beast is fierce in its belief that play is children’s work. The foundations for literacy, attention giving, social interaction, self-regulation, mathematical and scientific reasoning, and motor development are not attained by rolling elementary teaching approaches into the preschool years prematurely. Rather, those foundations are developed in playful, joyful, child directed exploration of the world.
It is the responsibility of the early childhood educator to send a child into their elementary years with a strong sense of competency, an excitement to learn, and a body that has developed the feedback systems and the muscles to sit, to listen, to write, to manipulate supplies, and to focus.
Our teachers study each child and bring in the activities that best develop these skills.
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning.”
— Fred Rogers
Contact Us
Hours
Monday–Friday
8:00am–5:30pm
Phone
(916) 601-2586
Location
5265 H St.
Sacramento, CA 95819
Email
Vy
vy@arteniabeast.com