Your Child Is In Great Hands
At Ohana Preschool we adhere to a holistic approach of early childhood education. When we expose children to different environments and various learning experiences, we allow them to explore their self-awareness and gain a sense of the world around them. Once they leave our Preschool, they’re fully prepared for the next stage of their young lives.
Get To Know Us
Susanna Suiter
Susanna has been working with children for the past 25 years. Prior to working in Early Childhood Education, Susanna taught Elementary and High School. Susanna grew up in Hawaii and attended the University of Hawaii. She graduated with a Bachelor of Education and went on to receive her Master of Education from the University of Cincinnati. Susanna is passionate about working with and educating children. Her goal is to provide them with a loving, safe environment that fosters curiosity and a love of learning. In her spare time, Susanna loves gardening, reading, fishing, and spending time with her twin sons.
Rino Kabe
Rino grew up in Tokyo, Japan and has always loved working with children. While still in Tokyo, Rino taught English to preschool and elementary age children. After moving to the United States, Rino went to school and became licensed in massage therapy and esthetics. After her sons were born, she decided to return to her first love of working with children. Rino enjoys
teaching the children art, yoga and music. She enjoys sharing her culture, language and home-
cooked Japanese meals with the children. In Rino’s spare time, she enjoys traveling, reading,
and spending time outdoors with her twin sons.
Philosophy
Our goal is to provide every child entrusted to us a loving, healthy, stimulating and safe environment. Our curriculum will nurture your child and allow him/her to explore, discover, have new experiences and prepare them to enter elementary school. During these early years, we believe instead of a classroom setting, it is more effective to use nature and creative arts to foster curiosity and excitement that will instill in them a desire to be lifetime learners.
The age range of the children provides the preschool children with a chance to learn responsibility and leadership and the younger children benefit by watching and learning with positive role models. We follow a thematic style of teaching and design our themes to encourage curiosity.
Meal Time
What Students Experience
- A focus on community and polite manners.
- Being part of the food preparation, serving, eating, and cleaning process as a community.
- Family style group meals every day.
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What Students Eat
Ohana Preschool serves a mid-morning snack, lunch and an afternoon snack. All of our meals feature organic healthy choices. We believe that meals are a part of a child’s education, not a break from school. We like to involve the children as much as possible in the preparation, serving, and clean up. We learn about where the food comes from and how it is used. We have a garden the children help to plant, watch grow, and when the time comes, harvest and eat. As Japanese is our second language here, once a week the children are served an authentic homemade Japanese meal. We believe that all of this gives the children a sense of gratitude, learn to appreciate different foods and to learn social manners.
