Joanie Giraudo relocated The Applebee Preschool from her Menlo Park location to Folsom in June 2020 and now El Dorado Hills in 2023. She is excited to be part of the childcare community in Folsom and El Dorado Hills where she can share her love of educating young children through play. Joanie has over 37 years of experience working with preschoolers. She thrives on being part of the preschool community,
play based curriculum
Guided play is wonderful. It maintains the joyful child-directed aspects of free play but adds on additional focus on learning goals through light adult scaffolding. It offers an opportunity for exploration in a context specifically designed to foster a learning goal. Guided play promotes language learning, mathematical and spatial skills, social experiences and creative arts. Children are engaged in meaningful play that is socially interactive which is the basis of all learning.
Our Mission
We offer a developmentally appropriate play based preschool program for children ages 2 1/2-6 years of age. We value each stage of a child’s development and we consider each child to be unique in their own way.
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