Founding Director Kara Turrisi Greenwood launched Wee Ones Club in 2004, in an effort to bring enrichment and education to our young neighbors in Murray Hill. With a performing arts background in music and theater, Miss Kara began by offering musical Mommy and Me classes and enriching social time for neighborhood families. As more and more families asked for additional programming to be added so that they could extend their time at Wee Ones Club, our school grew to its present size, and now offers a full schedule of Mommy and Me Club Classes as well as Twos, Threes, and Fours Preschool Programs.

MISSION

The Murray Hill Wee Ones Club strives to generate educative experiences for our students that increase confidence and independence while nurturing and supporting the unique needs of each child who passes through our doors. Our goal is to create an environment where every child feels secure in the knowledge that they are respected and valued by their peers and teachers. The tender age of our students is honored by Wee Ones staff, who keep our classrooms free of judgment and dedicate themselves to providing each student with the materials and guidance to make their first educational discoveries meaningful and lasting.

PHILOSOPHY

Wee Ones Club is a play-based program rooted in the belief that personal achievement in our children must be grounded by the awareness that we are not alone in the world, and each of us has a responsibility to the larger community in which we exist. Individual achievement and continuity of enriching experiences, together with foundational ability to share, communicate, compromise, problem-solve, and adjust, are our goals for each and every student of our program.

Learning at Wee Ones Club is hands-on and interdisciplinary across the board. Children use their five senses to make meaning of experiences, and it takes many different muscles to take in the complexity of the world around us. Instead of drilling concepts through rote learning, we design classroom activities for our students to explore that incorporate elements of many standard subjects at once.

Working with children in our Mommy and Me classes from their earliest developmental stages enables us to prepare specific and personalized goals for them as they begin our Preschool Program. By the time students enter the preschool classroom, our teachers have been fully informed of their strengths, challenges, and individual needs. Our teachers’ skill and experience, combined with detailed knowledge of each incoming group of students, ensures that our curriculum goals are implemented in a way that generates excitement and meaningful engagement in the children.