Creative arts, fitness, health & wellness, cooking, special interest and more!
Swimming lessons, open swim, aquatic fitness programs, Metro Marlins swim team & more!
Orono Early Learning's Discovery Kids is a Full-Day Educationally Focused Childcare program. Discovery Kids is designed for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years.
Offerings in sports, art, science & technology, special interest and more!
Create delicious new dishes!
Stained glass, fused glass, painting and more!
Spend the day exploring destinations around the metro area!
Get your body moving!
Rejuvenate your mind, body and soul.
A variety of classes including photography, retirement planning, virtual road trips and more!
30 total hours of classroom driver's training required by the State of Minnesota.
In regards to child development, it's actually all three!
Ross Thompson has been working in the world of Early Childhood Education for nearly two decades; receiving his undergraduate and graduate degrees in ECE from the University of Minnesota. He then joined staff at the Lab School at the U of M, where worked as a lead teacher, cooperating teacher supervising the student teaching experiences for current undergraduates in the EC program, and as an adjunct instructor; leading courses on motor, cognitive, and language development in EC. Ross then got the opportunity to help create a nature-based and play-based childcare program called Wildflower Early Learning Center in Savage, MN. Now, he's currently working as a lead teacher at the Grace Neighborhood Nursery School in Uptown, and including nature-based play and learning in the program's weekly field trips.
Ross Thompson
