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Our Teachers
Owner and teacher Lainy Morse has a Masters degree in Early Childhood Education and community based training in anti-bias and inclusion, positive discipline, and Waldorf and Reggio education. She has worked at several preschools in varying roles from teacher to director over the last decade. Lainy believes that play guides learning in the early years and enjoys making music and art with young children. She lives with her husband, teenage daughter, rescue pup, two cats, and rabbit in East Portland. She enjoys a good long walk and playing her guitar.
Philosophy
Art, music, and a reverence for the natural world inspire our work with children. Throughout the day, children are invited to participate in daily work activities with their teacher such as baking, gardening, soup making, and hand work. Teachers are active observers of play and utilize observation to scaffold future learning experiences. Through play, children learn socio-emotional skills, body and spacial awareness, and the foundations of science, math, and literacy. Child led play is the work of early childhood.
About our program
Songbird Playschool is a preschool for two to five year old children located in the Lents neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. We provide a reflexive curriculum informed by the unique identities of each child and their home culture. We believe in fostering an admiration and respect for the natural world and spend large parts of the day outdoors in the adjacent Mt. Scott Butte Wilderness. Inspired by Waldorf and Reggio pedagogy, our play-based curriculum serves children with a constructivist and equity-minded lens.