Home

  • Home
  • About
  • Pictures
  • Meet Us
  • Get in Touch
  • About Happy Apple Preschool

    Located in Hillsboro, Oregon, Happy Apple is a fun and involving place for your child to play and learn.

    Happy Apple Preschool is now enrolling for the fall term. We will be on the Hillsboro school district schedule. Happy Apple uses Montessori curriculum but also introduces a Waldorf style of learning. We are a small school with a maximum capacity of 20 students/day.

    The Happy Apple approach is one in which careful attention is placed on nurturing the child's innate joy and passion for education. This process happens as the child does meaningful work, completes a task successfully from start to finish and explores all life has to offer. At Happy Apple Preschool your child will enjoy learning and discovering. We teach math, reading, science, art and music. We also enjoy going for a daily nature walk.

    Practical Life: Instills care for self, for others, and for the environment. Activities include many of the tasks children see as part of the daily routine in their home, such as preparing food and washing dishes, along with exercises of grace and courtesy.

    Sensorial: Builds cognitive skills and ability to order and classify impressions by touching, seeing, smelling, tasting, listening and exploring the physical properties of a child's environment.

    Math: Gives children a solid understanding of basic mathematical principles, prepares them for later abstract reasoning, and helps to develop problem-solving capabilities.

    Language: Includes exploration of verbal and written language, learning the phonics and left to right progression.

    Science: Botany, biology, cause and effect, and engineering.

    Geography and Culture: Exploration of people in other countries, with an attitude of respect and admiration.

    Art: Gives children every opportunity to enjoy a variety of creature activities.

    Music: Learn timing, beat, melody and the passion of music.

    You can enroll full-time Monday-Friday or choose between two part-time options M/W/F or T/T. Your child needs to be 3-5 years old and potty trained.

    Feel free to set up a time for a tour and to learn more about us. Please call Miechel at 503-470-0424 or email hello@happyapple.me.

    Full-time

    Mon-Fri: 9 am – 1 pm
    Mon-Fri: 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm

    Part-time

    M/W/F: 9 am – 1 pm
    M/W/F: 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm

    Part-time

    Tue/Thu: 9 am – 1 pm
    Tue/Thu: 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm
  • Happy Apple Pictures and Movies

  • Get Acquainted With Happy Apple

    Miechel

    Miechel

    With over 20 years of childcare experience, Miechel is currently certified in CPR, First Aid, Food Handlers Card, and registered with the Criminal History Background check.




    Olivia

    Olivia

    Olivia has 15 years of childcare experience. Her eclectic resume includes 2 years of preschool teaching, being a private nanny for 4 different families, working at a preschool co-op for 3 years, becoming a DOULA and Childbirth Educator, being a certified massage therapist and working with babies and parents in the NICU, being certified to internationally teach massage for infants with special needs, working with orphans and staff in Vietnam, teaching yoga for children for 2 years, being on the board of directors for establishing a charter elementary school that focuses on earth stewardship, and working on publishing her first children's book. She is also a mother of 2 boys, and 2 dogs. She loves being around children and believes with her whole heart that changing the lives of children can really change the world.
  • Get In Touch With Happy Apple

    Have questions? Want to schedule a visit to Happy Apple for you and your child? Please give us a call or send an email.
    Contact Information

    Miechel Barksdale
    239 NE Lenox Street
    Hillsboro, OR 97124
    503-470-0424
    hello@happyapple.me
  • © Copyright 2015 Happy Apple. All rights reserved.