"World is brighter with the happiness of children"
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Name: Happy Yogis Nursery School
Address: Nadina Street, San Mateo, CA, 94402, US
Telephone: (415) 573-6043

License #414004855

Happy Yogis Nursery School is a play based, Yoga inspired in-home child care program licensed by the State of California. Our program is located in San Mateo. We serve children ranging from three months up to kindergarten.

At Happy Yogis's we believe that children who feel safe, comfortable, and respected, exhibit a natural sense of wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm for learning.

Our goal is to look into the individual needs of children as well as the need of the group, and create hands-on learning opportunities through specialized routines that supports each child’s social, emotional, physical and cognitive development.

Ellie Souza has spent 15 yeas working with early childhood education. Most recently, she spent 5 years teaching yoga to infants, toddlers and younger children of different ages in daycare and Pre-K settings throughout the Bay Area under her own business called Chant Kids Yoga (https://www.instagram.com/chant_kids_yoga).

It was while working under that capacity she felt inspired of opening her own in-home based California State licensed Nursery School program inspired in the philosophy of Yoga. Ellie is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

It’s her goal to provide a lovely, safe and positive environment to the little ones, and she is committed to help to create a healthy foundation to every child’s intellectual, emotional and social well being , physical growth, while he/she will be under her.

Ellie is in the process of applying for the Lifeways program to pursue certification from Lifeways North America Early Childhood Education, and she is always taking several courses related to childhood education.

Our mission is to provide integral development of infants, toddlers and 4 years old children, in their physical, psychological, intellectual and social aspects, complementing the actions fo the families and the community in a safe, loving, and nurturing environment.

Our goal is to look into the individual needs of children as well as the need of the group, and create hands-on learning opportunities through specialized routines that supports each child’s social, emotional, physical and cognitive development.

Our Facility

Everybody Loves Activities

PAINTING

Painting allows a child to express themselves without the use of words, and provides children with an educational opportunity that is fun and exciting. Painting also helps children acquire hand-eye coordination, an essential skill in their age.

ARTS AND CRAFTS

Arts and crafts help children to improve coordination and fine motor skills, encourage self-expression, promote creativity.

YOGA

Children learn yoga poses, breathing and relaxation techniques, plus mindfulness exercises. They also learn how to cultivate loving-awareness and compassion for one another. Yoga helps children improve focus and concentration, gain confidence, and learn how to express themselves.

MUSIC & READING TIME

Music and dance helps body and mind to work together, ignite children's social skills and brainpower, build their confidence, and inspire creativity and other forms of expression.

We love to read hundreds of works of classic and contemporary children's literature to our kids. We select books in Portuguese, English, and Spanish daily, so that children can learn new languages at an early age, skills that are invaluable as they get older.

PRETENDING PLAY

Stimulates imagination and creativity, emotional development, improves motor skills and increases group participation.

FREE UNINTERRUPTED PLAY

Playing outdoors gives children an opportunity to learn about nature and promote all areas of development. Air circulation, temperature changes, and the playfulness of sun spots and shade are stimuli to the skin, eyes, lungs, and metabolism.

Curriculum

Our monthly curriculum helps our children with academic learning through Math, Sciences and Language Arts activities

appropriate to their age group.

The daly routine helps children feel more confident, secure and in control of their environment, because their daily activities are predictable and familiar. We also go with the flow :)

Monthly Curriculum

Monday

8:00 - 9:00AM Free play, settling in, and breakfast.

9:20AM Yoga

10:30 -11:45AM Free outside playing, wash hands, and prepare for lunch.

12:00PM Diaper's change and reading time

1:00 - 3:00PM Nap-time

3:00 - 4:00 PM Snacks and diapers change.

4:00 to 5:30 PM Free play for the youngest children and play-time with play-dough to the old children

Thursday

08-9:00AM Free play, settling in, and breakfast.

09:20AM Time to learn ABC, Number and Shapes

10:30-11:45AM Free outside playing, wash hands, and prepare for lunch.

12:00PM Diaper's change and reading time

1:00 - 3PM Nap-time

3:00 - 4:00PM Snacks

4:00 - 5:30PM closing circle time

Tuesday

8:00 - 9:00AM Free play, settling in, and breakfast.

9:20AM Arts and Crafts

10:30 -11:45AM Free outside playing, wash hands, and prepare for lunch.

12:00PM Diaper's change and reading time

1:00 - 3:00PM Nap-time

3:00 - 4:00PM Snacks

4:00 - 5:30PM closing circle time

Friday

8:00 - 9:00AM Free play, settling in, and breakfast.

9:20AM Circle time with music and pretending play

10:30AM -11:40AM Free outside playing, wash hands, and prepare for lunch.

12:00PM Diaper's change and reading time

1:00 - 3:00PM Nap-time

3:00 -4:00PM Snacks

4:00 to 5:30pm closing circle time

Wednesday

8:00 - 9:00AM Free play, settling in, and breakfast.

9:20AM Circle time and time to paint

10:30 -11:45AM Free outside playing, wash hands, and prepare for lunch.

12:00PM Diaper's change and reading time

1:00 - 3:00PM Nap-time

3:00 -4:00 PM Snacks

4:00 to 5:30PM closing circle time

Infants (2 to 12 mo)

Our daily schedule for infants is flexible. We follow the little ones schedule slow adding different activities appropriate to their age and development.