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Playgarden Prep Online offers daily online preschool activities that include Art, Music, Dance, Storytime, Spelling Bee, Worksheet Review, Story Sharing, Movement, and more. Children use DIY educational materials, educational toys, DIT (Do-It-Together) activities, art projects, educational games, crafts, and sensory play as part of the program. The program provides hundreds of hours of online lessons and activities, along with UNLIMITED live classes and teacher-led Playdates with small student groups.
• Ages: 1–7 years old
• Schedule: 27 weeks of daily lessons that, with repetition and typical Winter and Spring breaks, span a full 9-month school year; families can create a full day of online preschool learning from 9AM–12PM using Daily Lessons, Worksheets, Activities, and more, and live classes are offered throughout the day and year-round
Playgarden Prep Online is an online preschool program offering children 2–4 years old a private preschool experience at home, and also offers a Play and Learn program to complement education received at school or daycare. The program can be started anytime and is available around the world, with online programs that follow an online Montessori preschool methodology in the Learning Kits and allow children to choose their own learning path in the Play & Learn program. Live Zoom classes are offered year-round for a whole year of learning, and students who graduate from Playgarden are stated to have a 100% success rate in meeting or surpassing their Kindergarten Readiness Standards, with a 100% Satisfaction Money-Back Guarantee.
The curriculum is described as an award-winning curriculum with proven results, developed in NYC private preschools. Playgarden has helped thousands of families over the last 15 years, was founded in 2007, and made Playgarden Online programs available to families in the fall of 2020. The online preschool teachers are the same certified teachers who teach in in-person classes, and the program’s leadership includes Elizabeth Gilliard (Head of Schools and Lead Pre-K Teacher), Emma Basel (Lead Teacher and Educational Director), Carlos Corona (CEO - Playgarden Online & Co-Founder of Playgarden Prep), and Amanda Vierheller (COO - Playgarden Online & Co-Founder of Playgarden Prep).
Staff credentials include certified teachers such as Elizabeth Gilliard, who holds a BA in Psychology with a focus on Child Development, a Minor in Anthropology, a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education (Birth to 2nd Grade), and NYS Teaching Certification (Birth through 2nd Grade). Emma Basel holds a Master of Arts in Developmental Disabilities, a BA in Early Childhood Education with a Minor in Disabilities Studies and Human Development & Family Sciences, and NYS Teaching Certification (Birth through 2nd Grade). Carlos Corona holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA, and Amanda Vierheller has over 20 years of experience leading multidisciplinary groups of early learning specialists, 10 years of experience as a Director and Franchise Development Specialist with leading children’s centers, and decades of experience in curriculum development.
Playgarden’s mission is to become a premier provider of early education programs for children ages 12 months to 5 years by developing innovative programs tailored to different educational stages of childhood, providing the right content in the right place at the right time, and centering a belief in equity and inclusion. The mission also states that the team will take care of children as if they were their own and aims to instill children with confidence and a love of learning. The well-being curriculum includes topics such as Social and Emotional Development, Physical Health, Nutrition, and Sleep.
Parent testimonials report that Playgarden Prep Online offers structure for homeschool families through self-paced daily lessons, live workshops, and written worksheets, and that some parents use it alongside library and museum memberships and sports. Parents describe their children learning letters, numbers, continents, and planets before age 3, and one parent reports that at kindergarten registration, staff believed her child might be able to skip directly to first grade based on how advanced Playgarden Prep had helped him become. Other parents describe the curriculum as thoughtfully planned, flexible, and well rounded, and say their children enjoy the songs, want to watch every day, and have made Playgarden songs and teachers a regular part of family life.
Last updated February 8, 2026.
• Ages: 1–7 years old
• Schedule: 27 weeks of daily lessons that, with repetition and typical Winter and Spring breaks, span a full 9-month school year; families can create a full day of online preschool learning from 9AM–12PM using Daily Lessons, Worksheets, Activities, and more, and live classes are offered throughout the day and year-round
Playgarden Prep Online is an online preschool program offering children 2–4 years old a private preschool experience at home, and also offers a Play and Learn program to complement education received at school or daycare. The program can be started anytime and is available around the world, with online programs that follow an online Montessori preschool methodology in the Learning Kits and allow children to choose their own learning path in the Play & Learn program. Live Zoom classes are offered year-round for a whole year of learning, and students who graduate from Playgarden are stated to have a 100% success rate in meeting or surpassing their Kindergarten Readiness Standards, with a 100% Satisfaction Money-Back Guarantee.
The curriculum is described as an award-winning curriculum with proven results, developed in NYC private preschools. Playgarden has helped thousands of families over the last 15 years, was founded in 2007, and made Playgarden Online programs available to families in the fall of 2020. The online preschool teachers are the same certified teachers who teach in in-person classes, and the program’s leadership includes Elizabeth Gilliard (Head of Schools and Lead Pre-K Teacher), Emma Basel (Lead Teacher and Educational Director), Carlos Corona (CEO - Playgarden Online & Co-Founder of Playgarden Prep), and Amanda Vierheller (COO - Playgarden Online & Co-Founder of Playgarden Prep).
Staff credentials include certified teachers such as Elizabeth Gilliard, who holds a BA in Psychology with a focus on Child Development, a Minor in Anthropology, a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education (Birth to 2nd Grade), and NYS Teaching Certification (Birth through 2nd Grade). Emma Basel holds a Master of Arts in Developmental Disabilities, a BA in Early Childhood Education with a Minor in Disabilities Studies and Human Development & Family Sciences, and NYS Teaching Certification (Birth through 2nd Grade). Carlos Corona holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA, and Amanda Vierheller has over 20 years of experience leading multidisciplinary groups of early learning specialists, 10 years of experience as a Director and Franchise Development Specialist with leading children’s centers, and decades of experience in curriculum development.
Playgarden’s mission is to become a premier provider of early education programs for children ages 12 months to 5 years by developing innovative programs tailored to different educational stages of childhood, providing the right content in the right place at the right time, and centering a belief in equity and inclusion. The mission also states that the team will take care of children as if they were their own and aims to instill children with confidence and a love of learning. The well-being curriculum includes topics such as Social and Emotional Development, Physical Health, Nutrition, and Sleep.
Parent testimonials report that Playgarden Prep Online offers structure for homeschool families through self-paced daily lessons, live workshops, and written worksheets, and that some parents use it alongside library and museum memberships and sports. Parents describe their children learning letters, numbers, continents, and planets before age 3, and one parent reports that at kindergarten registration, staff believed her child might be able to skip directly to first grade based on how advanced Playgarden Prep had helped him become. Other parents describe the curriculum as thoughtfully planned, flexible, and well rounded, and say their children enjoy the songs, want to watch every day, and have made Playgarden songs and teachers a regular part of family life.
Last updated February 8, 2026.
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