Parking Lot Repair Notice: From October 8-13, repairs will be made to the parking lot. While drop-off and pick-up will not be impacted during the week, please be cautious and stay clear of workers, equipment, and roped-off areas.
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Note: The parking lot will be closed to all car traffic on October 12 and 13 (weekend days).
Welcome to ilo
The ilo Early Learning Center is one of the premier preschools in the City of Parker. Driven by a passion for developing young minds and the whole child, ilo utilizes proven learning models and age appropriate curricula to launch your child's educational journey. Given that children are very impressionable as they start their educational journey, having a positive experience early on is key to their future academic success. "ilo" (pronounced "ee-low") means joy in Finnish and we strive to bring that positive and joyful experience balanced with age-appropriate learning to your child's educational journey.
2024-2025
School Calendar
Why ilo
At ilo Early Learning Center, we have adapted the Finnish schooling model to provide an age appropriate, comprehensive early childhood education that incorporates social, emotional, academic and physical development, while still adhering to Colorado Education standards. The Finnish school model, which has been in practice for 40 years, has been recognized by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as one of the best in the world.
In keeping with the name of the school, we strive to create an environment that instills the joys of learning to your children, giving them that positive experience that sets them up for success as they progress on their educational journey.
The ilo approach is similar to Montessori in that the classroom has children of different ages, utilizes age appropriate self-guided hands-on learning, set in an environment that promotes self-discipline, personal responsibilities, and mutual respect. Additionally, we believe in learning through play, put a focus on team and group interactions, and endeavor to interleave nature into our lessons.
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In the classroom, we live by the tenants of Conscious Discipline, inclusive of Composure, Encouragement, Assertiveness, Choices, Empathy, Positive Intent and Consequences.
News & Events
Developmental Activities
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Literacy: Utilizing "Handwriting without Tears," the kids have startedwriting the letters of the alphabet and writing their names.
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Cognitive Development: We have introduced the concepts of alike and different, opposites, and sorting based on different attributes.
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STEM: Continuing with the theme of "Scientist use their senses to explore the world," we continue to explore what those five senses are and how our brains receives those senses and utilizes that information.
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Social & Emotional: We continue to work on social skills, such as asking and expression of feelings.
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Upcoming Events
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Oct 24th & 25th: Individual picture day
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Oct 25th: Fall Festival (more info to come)
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Early Nov: Parent conferences (more info to come)
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Administrative
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Convenience Fees: As a reminder, we add a 2.99% convenience fee for payments made with credit card, Apple Pay, PayPal, Venmo. In this age of technology, it is surprising how manually intensive this is to track. Given that, our perferred payment method is ACH.
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Late Fees: Thank you so much for all of your timely payments. This greatly simplifies our accounting and minimizes a lot of overhead with our accountant. We have waived late fees for the first two billing cycles but will start applying them starting with the 3rd billling cycle.
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More Info: For more information on the Convenience Fee and Late Payment terms, please refer back to the Parent Handbook.
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