Larks, Four’s Teacher

Andrea, “Andie”, Nelson has been successfully involved in education for eight years and has a wide range of experience.  Andie holds a degree from Savannah College of Art and Design, and she deeply enjoys using her artistic skills to make her classrooms as creative as possible.  Andie initially became involved in teaching while serving as an AmeriCorps Volunteer, where she taught environmental education within the Greater Atlanta community.  After this fantastic experience, she became very interested in pursuing teaching as a career and knew teaching the young child in a preschool setting was the best match for her talents.

For years, Andie has worked in different types of schools and has guided very diverse groups of young children to be the very best they can be.  Andie has been living in Atlanta for two years after residing in Durango, Colorado, where she worked at a community based preschool.   Andie highly values the cooperative preschool setting and looks forward to teaching and being a part of the community at OCP.  Andie’s philosophy is that we are here to guide the children in developing their unique selves by exposing them to an academically strong foundation while engaging them with new and exciting activities.

So what does a green preschool look like?
Just like Oakhurst Cooperative Preschool!

We are one of the few preschools emphasizing environmental education in its curriculum. While many private and public kindergarten classes are 
beginning to introduce environmental awareness into their curriculum, few start earlier; preschoolers are not commonly thought of as an easy age group to start teaching the
importance of taking care of their planet.

But we do just that, by introducing environmental education to young children in a way that engages them, intrigues them, and creates an empathy and respect for all living things and their habitats. We hope to provide even our youngest children not only with a gentle awareness of their impact on the world around them, but also an understanding of how they can make a positive difference.