Organization
Temple Shalom Early Childhood Center

Temple Shalom Early Childhood Center (ECC) offers infants, toddlers, and preschoolers a warm, relationship-centered start, grounded in play, enriched by nature, and guided by Jewish values. Temple Shalom Early Childhood Center is rooted in the living landscape itself. Set on a 14-acre historic pecan orchard and shaped by community and Jewish values, our campus offers a learning environment unlike any other. Children move naturally between indoor and outdoor classrooms throughout the day. Our campus includes:

• A thoughtfully designed Naturescape Playground built from logs, water, earth, and imagination, with spaces to climb, balance, and create
• A working Food Justice Farm where children help grow food that is donated to neighbors in need
• A child-scaled Curiosity Garden for planting, exploring, and muddy discovery
• A densely planted Tiny Forest growing alongside the children, centered around an open-air Forest Classroom
• A humming Bee Sanctuary that reveals the quiet and essential work of pollinators
   

These living outdoor classrooms anchor a rigorous, fully licensed and accredited early childhood program led by skilled educators trained in nature-based education. Literacy, early mathematics, science inquiry, movement, and the arts unfold through hands-on experiences in the natural world. Learning and joyful celebration ground children in tradition and living values.

Here, children are known and inspired. They grow confident, capable, and deeply connected – to community, to creation, and to something larger than themselves. Families become part of a generous, purpose-driven, joyfully Jewish community where children are prepared not only for kindergarten, but for lives of meaning and contribution.