At Tallgrass, kids play as much as they want. All day, every day.

“Okay...so how do they learn?” By playing. Learning IS play. This isn’t a fringe opinion--as the American Academy of Pediatrics says, “The benefits of play cannot really be overstated in terms of mitigating stress, improving academic skills and helping to build the safe, stable and nurturing relationships that buffer against toxic stress and build social-emotional resilience."

What does play look like here?

Sorting all your stuffed animals into species groups
Making a Minecraft world
Filling the freezer with snowballs, and then snow bricks, and then Kool-aid popsicles
Making custom computers for all your friends (and some of their parents)
Starting a committee
Talking for hours about questions like, “Could we build an elevator to space?”

Play is:

Self-chosen and self-directed
Motivated by means rather than ends (that is, not self-consciously “educational”)
Alert, active, but unstressed: “flow”
Unsupervised--not directed by adults.
Mixed-age

If this sounds like what you want for your child, contact us to schedule a tour today. Or to learn more, download our e-book, "Is Self-Directed Education Right for Your Child?”