About Us
Why Gan Shelanu?
1. Gan Shelanu has a comprehensive COVID-19 Protocol and Procedures Policy (in conjunction with the Adath's COVID 19 committee) to ensure all students, students' families and the Gan staff remain healthy and safe.
2. Gan Shelanu offers a comprehensive and creative Regio and STEM inspired curriculum with opportunities for students in a wide range of areas helping them achieve cognitive, social, emotional and physical developmental milestones.
3. Gan Shelanu has proven to provide a strong foundation for students’ further education. We provide children with necessary tools to succeed in elementary school and beyond.
4. Gan Shelanu teachers and staff are dedicated professionals who undergo a rigorous selection and subsequent training. All are certified by the State of Minnesota Department of Human Services
5. Gan Shelanu has a low staff to student ratio – well under the State’s guidelines, providing a great deal of individualization.
6. Gan Shelanu is invested in its facility. Fully equipped classrooms with en suite child size toilets include areas for learning, playing, eating, and napping. Our large muscle room offers tumbling equipment, trampolines, bikes and more. Our fenced in backyard includes a full-sized playground and toddler playground, a large sand area and even a sledding hill! We recently added a mud kitchen and outdoor water trough with a pump! Adath's expansive secluded natural setting allows for nature walks along trails and lake.
7. Gan Shelanu has a fully-equipped Science Enrichment Room with an on-site science specialist. The students have listened to their hearts using a stethoscope, built igloos with salt and ice, discovered that only female mosquitos bite, found out that kangaroos can swim and cannot hop backwards, and learned that a cockroach can live without its head for three days! Who knew?!
8. Gan Shelanu strongly emphasizes innovative outdoor, nature-based curriculum.
9. Gan Shelanu is committed to the study of mitzvot (good deeds) through classroom activities and interactions. Children learn what it means to do as well as give. Gan students sing their hearts out for residents of Knollwood Place and the Sholom Home during Jewish holidays and deliver hundreds of apple and honey and mishloach manot baskets to homebound congregants for Rosh Hashanah and Purim. Our mitzvah projects teach importance of the concepts of tzedakah (charity) and tikkun olam (healing of the world).
10. Gan Shelanu has a rich environment of learning materials, books and activities encouraging children to develop deeper and more complex understanding of the world around them.
11. Gan Shelanu's weekly Hebrew educator introduces Hebrew to the children.
12. Gan Shelanu has an Art Studio where "budding artists" explore self expression-- drawing, coloring, painting and more with different media.
13. Gan Shelanu has on site gardens combined with a visiting naturalist and master gardener. Our budding botanists also plant indoor gardens to celebrate Tu B’Shvat. Herbs, sweet potato vines, fairy gardens, avocado trees and “grass heads” were only some of the “greenery” abounding in classrooms.
14. Gan Shelanu’s outdoor garden is tended by the children and resident horticulturists. The children grow many kinds of vegetables and enjoy eating them at snacktime. Last summer’s crop yielded so much produce that the excess of vegetables was donated to a local food shelf.
15. Gan Shelanu Pre-Kers study about Minnesota. The kids learn there are 11,000 lakes in the state, the loon is the state bird, the lady slipper is the state flower and that Dorothy from the “Wizard of Oz” was born here.
16. Gan Shelanu staff receive on-going training throughout the school year.
17. Gan Shelanu provides Intergenerational programming and hosts many family events throughout the school year to nurture our community.
18. Gan Shelanu is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services and last year received an unprecedented, perfect – no citations review.
2. Gan Shelanu offers a comprehensive and creative Regio and STEM inspired curriculum with opportunities for students in a wide range of areas helping them achieve cognitive, social, emotional and physical developmental milestones.
3. Gan Shelanu has proven to provide a strong foundation for students’ further education. We provide children with necessary tools to succeed in elementary school and beyond.
4. Gan Shelanu teachers and staff are dedicated professionals who undergo a rigorous selection and subsequent training. All are certified by the State of Minnesota Department of Human Services
5. Gan Shelanu has a low staff to student ratio – well under the State’s guidelines, providing a great deal of individualization.
6. Gan Shelanu is invested in its facility. Fully equipped classrooms with en suite child size toilets include areas for learning, playing, eating, and napping. Our large muscle room offers tumbling equipment, trampolines, bikes and more. Our fenced in backyard includes a full-sized playground and toddler playground, a large sand area and even a sledding hill! We recently added a mud kitchen and outdoor water trough with a pump! Adath's expansive secluded natural setting allows for nature walks along trails and lake.
7. Gan Shelanu has a fully-equipped Science Enrichment Room with an on-site science specialist. The students have listened to their hearts using a stethoscope, built igloos with salt and ice, discovered that only female mosquitos bite, found out that kangaroos can swim and cannot hop backwards, and learned that a cockroach can live without its head for three days! Who knew?!
8. Gan Shelanu strongly emphasizes innovative outdoor, nature-based curriculum.
9. Gan Shelanu is committed to the study of mitzvot (good deeds) through classroom activities and interactions. Children learn what it means to do as well as give. Gan students sing their hearts out for residents of Knollwood Place and the Sholom Home during Jewish holidays and deliver hundreds of apple and honey and mishloach manot baskets to homebound congregants for Rosh Hashanah and Purim. Our mitzvah projects teach importance of the concepts of tzedakah (charity) and tikkun olam (healing of the world).
10. Gan Shelanu has a rich environment of learning materials, books and activities encouraging children to develop deeper and more complex understanding of the world around them.
11. Gan Shelanu's weekly Hebrew educator introduces Hebrew to the children.
12. Gan Shelanu has an Art Studio where "budding artists" explore self expression-- drawing, coloring, painting and more with different media.
13. Gan Shelanu has on site gardens combined with a visiting naturalist and master gardener. Our budding botanists also plant indoor gardens to celebrate Tu B’Shvat. Herbs, sweet potato vines, fairy gardens, avocado trees and “grass heads” were only some of the “greenery” abounding in classrooms.
14. Gan Shelanu’s outdoor garden is tended by the children and resident horticulturists. The children grow many kinds of vegetables and enjoy eating them at snacktime. Last summer’s crop yielded so much produce that the excess of vegetables was donated to a local food shelf.
15. Gan Shelanu Pre-Kers study about Minnesota. The kids learn there are 11,000 lakes in the state, the loon is the state bird, the lady slipper is the state flower and that Dorothy from the “Wizard of Oz” was born here.
16. Gan Shelanu staff receive on-going training throughout the school year.
17. Gan Shelanu provides Intergenerational programming and hosts many family events throughout the school year to nurture our community.
18. Gan Shelanu is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services and last year received an unprecedented, perfect – no citations review.
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