Nature-based early childhood education · Metro Detroit
Not daycare. Childhood.
A childhood full of real relationships, real questions, and room to try.
From infancy through Pre-K, Green Garden gives children places to explore, teachers who notice what matters to them, and time to become more fully themselves.
Before a child jumps, they judge the distance, organize their body, and decide if they are ready. An attentive teacher stays close without taking the decision away.
That moment holds coordination, judgment, trust, and growing confidence. Our teachers make room for questions, appropriate risks, real materials, and ideas children can return to.
Children learn what safety, connection, and problem solving feel like through the adults beside them. We draw from Conscious Discipline to help teachers pause, connect, set clear limits, and teach the skills a difficult moment calls for.
Leaving your baby with someone else is a significant transition. Our infant teachers work closely with families to understand each baby’s rhythms, needs, and emerging personality.
Toddlers are driven to move, repeat, test and do things themselves. Our classrooms give them room to try—with familiar adults nearby when those growing feelings become too big to manage alone.
Preschoolers learn by planning, building, pretending, creating, negotiating and solving real problems. Teachers support the learning without turning childhood into a smaller version of elementary school.
Eligible four-year-olds can receive high-quality preschool at no tuition cost while experiencing Green Garden’s play-based, relationship-centered approach.
They observe what children are trying to understand. They ask questions that move an idea forward. They add materials at the right moment. They help children work through conflict without solving every problem for them.
Green Garden uses HighScope’s active-learning approach. Children make plans, carry them out and reflect on what happened. Children retain ownership of their ideas while teachers make sure those ideas have somewhere to go.
