Students in the Pre-Kindergarten class at PPNS continue to enjoy a great deal of choice over how they organize their time and construct their learning.  At the same time, teachers help them learn to weave more sophisticated planning, collaborating and investigating into the school experience. Ideas, observations and questions inspire long-term projects that promote habits of inquiry, conceptual capacities, and foundational science, math, and literacy skills.  Social and emotional learning and problem solving fold into the more focused, interdependent learning environment, as do the group times, which begin to function as meetings.