This is a community-inspired environment where kids can have fun playing games, doing puzzles, reading, practicing yoga, and expressing themselves through art. Our goal is to nurture your child’s natural virtues of grace, purpose, harmony, connection, and growth through joyful learning. The Hive is available for families enjoying services in the Breathe Building. Parents can enjoy a yoga class, a meal, or a visit to our wellness center, knowing that their children are in a safe, nurturing environment just next door.

Minimum Age: 6 months

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Meet Noelle

– Hive Manager

Noelle has worked with children for over seven years in a variety of capacities. During that time she has amassed experience as a camp counselor, sports coach, yoga instructor, trip leader and preschool teacher, working with youth of all ages. Noelle is passionate about uplifting all those around her through mindfulness practices such as yoga and meditation, deliberate creation, exercising, and of course, play! Noelle earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education in 2015 and believes strongly in child-led, play-based education. She believes that by recognizing each child as a unique individual inherently capable of loving and learning we empower them to gain confidence and skills both within and outside of academia. Having worked with children ages 3 months-5 years most recently she has found a new passion in social-emotional development. By helping children develop the tools to honor their emotions while calming their bodies and minds we help children cultivate kindness, empathy, and respect, which will help to uplift our shared world and local community. Noelle is so excited and honored to be joining the Yoga Union community as the manager for The Hive and is looking forward to connecting with the members of Yoga Union, both youth and adults! When she is not in The Hive you can catch her practicing next to you, curating herbal teas, hiking through the forest and connecting with the ocean and rivers.

Pricing

We price childcare in 30 minute blocks.  For 1 block, it costs $6.  However, we offer packages of blocks (that can be shared amongst siblings), that reduces the cost per half an hour. The packages are:

** Receive 10% off Childcare when you sign up to be a Member!

Philosophy

  • The Reggio Emilia philosophy is based upon the following understanding:
  • Children benefit from having some control over the direction of their learning.
  • Children learn through experiences of touching, moving, listening, and observing.
  • Children build social skills by having a relationship with others.
  • Children form relationships with material items and learn from those items through exploration.
  • Children are enriched when provided a variety of ways and opportunities to express themselves.

Reggio Emilia is a developmentally centered philosophy that is supported by current theory and research on meeting children’s developmental needs. This approach puts children’s natural propensity to learn, grow, create, care, express, investigate, observe, and explore at the center of its philosophy.  As active constructors of knowledge, children are given opportunities to develop their innate potential. Children are also supported as social beings whose relationship to other children, family, teachers, and the community are places for important learning.

The ability to negotiate within a peer group is a prioritized skill. Care-givers help make children aware that respect for their peers is important because everyone is part of the group and has something to offer. This mutual respect is also modeled by the teacher who listens to the child’s ideas and concerns and offers collaborative problem-solving when disagreements arise.

In the Reggio approach, the teacher is considered a co-learner and collaborator with the children and not just an instructor. Care-givers are encouraged to facilitate activities and lessons based on children’s interests, asking questions to further understanding, and actively engaging in the activities alongside the children while allowing play to remain child-led.

The environment itself is seen as a kind of “third teacher” where children create meaning and make sense of their world. Here children learn to retrieve and put away their own supplies for play, fostering a sense of independence and contribution to the care of the room. Supplies are organized and frequently rearranged to suit the needs of the children and create visual interest.

Small group projects provide structured learning when appropriate, while self-selected play allows for freedom of choice and individual investigation. Care-givers observe imaginative play as the source material for deeper investigations. Project topics may also reflect seasonal changes, community activities, or spontaneous events that spark interest. Improvised responses allow for creative teaching and authentic learning. Uncertainty provokes children’s creative thinking and problem-solving, while developmentally appropriate materials allow everyone to participate.

Care-givers trust themselves to respond appropriately to children’s ideas and interests, they trust children to be interested in things worth knowing about, and they trust parents to be informed and productive members of a cooperative educational team. The result is an atmosphere of community and collaboration that is developmentally appropriate for adults and children alike.

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