The kindergarten is a full-day program with open admissions. The Nursery School Program is a part-day program with open admissions for children ranging from two to four years of age. The Nursery School Program has a long history that starts in 1929. The curriculum is designed to offer developmentally appropriate programs that promote children's development and support families. An integral component of the curriculum is the project approach, which means that children and teachers construct the content of the curriculum and the processes for learning in partnership through inquiry.
International perspectives provide a foundation for our curriculum.
Each year more than one hundred students enrolled in family studies courses at UNH use the center as a laboratory for experimental teaching and learning, and documentation of those experiences. Students from other disciplines, for example, education, psychology, occupational therapy, and communication disorders, also use the center as a laboratory for the study of children. The seven classrooms in the center are equipped with observation booths that are used by college students, faculty, parents, and visitors. These booths provide researchers with the opportunity to observe children in a natural context. Research projects have ranged from the effects of infant child care on attachment to the development of emergent literacy.