Welcome to The Re.Imaginaries Pre.School
A PLACE TO EXPLORE
THE MECHANICAL + MAGICAL
WORKINGS OF THE WORLD
At The Re.Imaginaries Pre.School, your child receives vital foundations in creative play, earth-based wisdom, relational and self-development, and a growing capacity for courage and resilience.
Our Pre.School is a creative learning community for kids ages 2-5 with a 4:1 student teacher ratio. We meet from 9am-1pm Monday-Thursday in our backyard covered classroom and play area!
Through generative guidance from skilled and creative teachers, Pre.School days are anchored in movement and music, immersive making projects, and daily park adventures in every season. The Re.Imaginaries curriculum follows a seasonal arc, exploring together in alignment with each season.
Enrollment will Re-Open on May 1, 2024!
Interested to see if we’re a good fit for your little?
Submit an interest form below,
reach out to set up a private tour, or join us for our upcoming Pre.School Play Classes!
The Tool Crib:
a simple machines play class
Tuesdays 9am-10am
Apr 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
May 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
June 4th, 11th
Plan: Join us this School Year from 9 - 10 am for the Tool Crib, our Simple Machines-based Play Class at The Re.Imaginaries Pre.School!
This is a great opportunity for your kiddo to engage with hands-on examples of real physical concepts, and for your family to learn some important new vocabulary words in the process.
People: This class is best for 1.5-4 year olds and their adults.
Price: This is a FREE offering to our community!
Creative Play Days:
imaginative dress-up + character play
Wednesday mornings from 9:00 - 10:00am.
No Dates Scheduled Yet - SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER to get more information.
Plan: Littles will be guided through animal exploration activities as well as age-appropriate social-emotional learning opportunities, and have ample opportunity for individual and collaborative creative play!
This is a great opportunity for your kiddo to try on all sorts of costumes, characters, and identities and practice playing make believe with their new friends!
People: This class is best for 2-4 years old and their adults.
Price: This is a FREE offering to our community!
“This is no ordinary preschool! Born out of true love for community and a passion for earth-based education, teacher blue and staff are beyond dedicated! My son thoroughly enjoyed the child-led, play-based curriculum and it was so heartwarming to see how he responded to the teachers prompts and the self-satisfaction he had from working through things on his own accord. What more could a parent want?! The school itself is such a sweet little backyard wonderland filled with color, natural elements and a treasure trove of materials that sparked even my own imagination. It's truly inspiring and such a happy place! A gem of preschool run by the most amazing human beings and it shows!” — Su Y.
A nourishing community of creative kindreds.
YOU ARE:
Seeking a brave space for your child to try new things, expand, evolve, and experience the magic of each season. Maybe you’re hesitant about sending your child to their first community experience, or not sure where to begin in your child’s educational journey. Our Pre.School offers a close-knit circle that sees, knows, and honors your child and allows them to explore being in a social group — perhaps for the first time. Discover a path to ground your family in a routine that feels exciting for all. You’re ready to have some time for yourself each day as your child has the opportunity to expand their horizons.
You are looking for a community for your whole family.
TOGETHER, WE ARE:
A learning community that evolves alongside your child. Our Pre.School offers a counterpoint to the typical overwhelming classroom experience or daunting prospect of educating your child at home. Here, they gain essential educational skills without the large classroom and challenging systems to navigate.
We invite you and your children into a community of co-creators and re.imaginaries. Kids will be supported to explore, play, learn, grow, and expand their world in a space that is safe, conscious, and lovingly contained.
Through experiential and collaborative discovery that allows kids to lead the way, The Re.Imaginaries Pre.School creates a fabulous foundation to the educational process, fostering curiosity and innovation, compassion and confidence.
By remaining in a small, eight-family pod dynamic, we are able to move through the next chapter gracefully with your child no matter what the future holds.
Our core values:
Each person carries unique gifts that the world needs. Being able to show up in our wholeness allows us to share our gifts with our community.
Communities that learn and grow together and support each other’s thrival, become stronger and more resilient. We need each other and we take care of each other.
Everyone deserves to feel confident in their abilities and can stretch themselves by trying new, challenging things to grow their capacity and their courage.
We value the gift of life and we aim to move through the world with gratitude and reverence for all that we experience. Building a healthy relationship with each other and our environment is never one-sided. We intentionally shift from a scarcity to an abundance mindset.
When we take an imaginative and innovative approach, it expands our potential to tackle new challenges and expands the landscape of what’s possible.
We are all connected, and We are all connected; what we do impacts others. When we honor the threads of our collective web, we are empowered to take action that supports the health and vitality of that interdependent web.
We offer:
Our teachers have a combined 30 years of professional teaching experience. With an intentional mix of structured and unstructured time, your child has opportunities to build fine motor-skills and discover how things work.
Specialty instruction and classes with themed projects, including:
Nature Exploration
Nature + Lunar Tracking
Plant + Bird Identification
Gardening + Herbal Medicine Making
Embodied Learning
Storytelling + Creative Play
Movement + Dance
Art Making
Sewing + Weaving
Woodworking + Leather Crafting
Painting + Ceramics
Through creative play, hands-on making, and group collaborations your child will be loved and nurtured as they grow into themselves!
DATES + DETAILS:
Schedule: Pre.School hours are 9-1, Monday through Thursday.
Fall Term: 9/25/23 — 12/14/23
Winter Term: 1/15/24 — 3/21/24
Spring Term: 4/8/24 — 6/13/24
Cost: Each Pre.School term costs $2400. You can either pay for the full term, or $800/month.
Location: The Reframe Collective’s backyard maker-space and outdoor classroom. 6114 NE 35th Ave Portland, Oregon, 97211
Registration: Registration will remain open until we reach capacity of 8 students.
TEACHER BIOS
blue O’Connor (they//them//other) is a hands-on educator, builder, maker, and tinkerer who loves to help young people learn to use their hands, tools, and their mechanical advantages. blue grew up as the oldest of nine siblings in a home that was a safe place for foster kids who needed to be removed from traumatic situations. This upbringing shaped blue’s worldview, solidified their values from an early age, and informs the way they work with children today. blue is passionate about teaching young ones simple machines and how to approach the world with a curious mind and capable hands. They especially love to learn alongside all our littles at the Re.Imaginaries Pre.School!
Caitlin Quinn (they//them) is a lifelong learner and experienced educator who loves to support kids in their creative self-expression. With a background in theatre, design and creative play, they help young ones to re.imagine worlds and gain confidence in their capacity to collaborate in community. Caitlin taught in the Portland Public school district from 2009-2021 and received her Masters in Teaching from Pacific University. They are certified to teach pre-K through eighth grade in all subjects and are specifically endorsed in art, theater, and health. Caitlin has taught K-5 Drama at Rose City Park Elementary. Before that, they taught Art and Drama at Sunnyside Environmental School as well asDrama at Beaumont Middle School, Hosford Middle School, and King Elementary. Having decades of experience teaching and facilitating classes to people of all ages, Caitlin is bursting with enthusiasm, and thrilled to be nurturing children’s creative self-expression in their very own backyard classroom!