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Emerging Sprouts Presents

Castro Valley Campus

​Our Castro Valley site is located on a farm in thevCrow Canyon, of Castro Valley. We are an 11-minute drive to Castro Valley BART and a 10-minute drive to Costco in San Ramon.

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Accepting Applications for the 2025-2026 School Year  

 

Ages 3-6 years old.  All children must be potty trained. However, students who are potty-trained at 2.5 and can stay with the group and carry their own backpacks will be considered.

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Preschool, TK, & Kindergarten

 

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Forest School

Our class is held outside 100% of the time. We are a Reggio-Emilia-inspired Forest School meeting on a 95-acre farm. We focus on allowing children safe ways to socialize with peers, explore nature, and develop in an emotionally and physically safe environment.

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Forest School

Our co-creative curriculum inspires learning and teamwork. 

At Emerging Sprouts, every cohort of students is unique, and we tailor our curriculum to the group's interests. At Forest School, we lay the groundwork for social-emotional safety and free play in nature our teachers take note of the group's interests. Students pick topics to study. Many of our classes over the years have studied nature or things having to do with nature because of our environment, but we have also studied things like cars or bridges; every class is different. 

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We allow children to choose which activities they wish to participate in, and students are our school naturally learn all the Pre-K skills they would gain at a comparable indoor preschool and more while they are enrolled with us at Forest School.

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Enrollment 
2025-2026 School Year 

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How to apply

  1. Submit application

  2. join a Friday tour or Open House

  3. If invited to enroll pay your deposit to hold your child's space in our program.  

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How does Enrollment work?

 If accepted to Forest School Families:

  1. Pay their deposit, within 24 hours of acceptance, this holds a space in our program.

  2. Submit paperwork 

    1. RSVP for your family orientation day.

    2. Join our community, by attending one of our school dinners!

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