Fifty-two weeks. One at a time.
The year at Chroma, week by week.
All fifty-two weeks of the year have a theme, and every room explores it at their own level — infants through school-age, all on the same idea in the same week.
Which means there is no wrong week to arrive — not one, in the whole year. Whenever your child starts, they walk into a week that was planned long before they got here.
This week at Chroma
Week 1 · August
All About Me
Names, faces, mirrors, and the question every child is quietly working on: who am I?
Try it at homeLet them name everyone in a family photo.
The whole year
Drag through the year. All fifty-two of them.
Fifty-two themes — one for every single week of the calendar year. There is no month without a plan, and no gap to cover.
Week 1
Week of August 3
All About Me
Names, faces, mirrors, and the question every child is quietly working on: who am I?
Try it at home
Let them name everyone in a family photo.
← drag through the year →
Starting in October? Your child walks into Week 10, and Week 10 was planned long ago. Same for the other fifty-one.
One theme, every room
The same week, refracted by age.
Every room runs the same theme — which means a six-month-old and a five-year-old are exploring the same idea in completely different ways. Pick a week and see it happen.
Which is also why siblings in different rooms come home talking about the same thing — at very different depths, but one dinner-table conversation instead of two.
A year of growth
What one year actually changes.
Not milestones on a chart — the things you notice at pickup. Whenever your child’s first year with us begins, this is roughly the distance they travel.
Infants · 6 weeks – 15 months
firstLifting their head during tummy time. Settled by a familiar voice.
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laterPulling to stand, waving goodbye, feeding themselves — and reaching for a specific teacher by name.
Toddlers · 12 – 24 months
firstPointing at what they want and hoping you guess right.
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laterAsking for it in three or four words, putting on their own shoes, and telling you about their day.
Preschool · 2 – 3 years
firstPlaying happily alongside other children, mostly in parallel.
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laterPlaying with them — inventing the rules together and negotiating when someone breaks them.
Pre-K Prep · 3 – 4 years
firstScribbling with a fist grip, moving to the next thing after ninety seconds.
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laterWriting their own name, holding a pencil properly, and finishing a three-step project they started yesterday.
Pre-K / GA Pre-K · 4 – 5 years
firstRecognizing some letters and counting past ten on a good day.
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laterSounding out short words, counting well past twenty, and walking into kindergarten already knowing how a classroom works.
Schoolagers · 5 – 12 years
firstHomework as a negotiation that eats the whole evening.
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laterHomework finished before pickup — and leading an activity for the younger kids because they asked to.
Traditions
The days families still talk about.
Four seasonal gatherings, one graduation, and a summer that starts the week after school ends.
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Fall Festival
Games, costumes, and the whole campus outside on a Saturday morning.
October
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Cookies & Cocoa
An evening where families come in, stay warm, and decorate more than they eat.
December
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Spring Art Show
Every child’s work framed and hung. Parents take more photos than at graduation.
March
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Pre-K Graduation
Cap, gown, and a walk across a stage that is much bigger than they are.
May
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Splash Days
Sprinklers, swimsuits, and a change of clothes you will definitely need.
June – July
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Family Conferences
Twice a year, sitting down together over your child’s actual portfolio.
Fall & Spring
Every week of the year
All fifty-two themes.
The full list, in order, from the first week of August round to the last week of July. Weeks marked ★ are shown room by room above.
- Week 1 · AugustAll About Me★Names, faces, mirrors, and the question every child is quietly working on: who am I?Try it at homeLet them name everyone in a family photo.Mirrors at floor level, and a teacher naming their face back to them — “those are your eyes.”Photo cards of every child in the room, matched to the real face across the table.Tracing each other’s bodies on butcher paper and arguing about who is taller.Self-portraits with real mirrors, and a first serious attempt at writing their own name.Measuring height, charting eye colour, and graphing favourites across the whole class.Designing a personal flag — choosing symbols for what actually matters to them.
- Week 2 · AugustMy FamilyWho lives in my house, who picks me up, and who belongs to me.Try it at homeSend a family photo in for the classroom wall.
- Week 3 · AugustFriends & FeelingsNaming big feelings, and discovering that friends have them too.Try it at homeName your own feeling out loud at dinner.
- Week 4 · AugustColors All AroundThe whole spectrum, hunted down in ordinary objects.Try it at homePick a colour and spot it the whole drive home.
- Week 5 · SeptemberShapes EverywhereCircles, squares, triangles, and the shapes hiding in buildings and breakfast.Try it at homeFind three circles in your kitchen.
- Week 6 · SeptemberCommunity HelpersFirefighters, nurses, mail carriers, and everyone who keeps a town running.Try it at homeWave at a helper you pass this week.
- Week 7 · SeptemberOn the FarmAnimals, sounds, and where breakfast actually comes from.Try it at homeAsk which farm animal they would want to be.
- Week 8 · SeptemberApples & OrchardsCounting, slicing, tasting, and printing with apple halves.Try it at homeCompare a red apple and a green one.
- Week 9 · SeptemberFalling LeavesWhy leaves change colour, and what a pile of them feels like.Try it at homeCollect one leaf on a walk.
- Week 10 · OctoberPumpkin Patch★Inside, outside, seeds, weight, and a great deal of orange.Try it at homeGuess how many seeds before you scoop.Pumpkin flesh in a sensory tray, and the smell of it left on their hands.Scooping seeds with both fists, learning “wet,” “slimy,” and “cold.”Sorting seeds into piles of ten, then dumping them out and doing it again.Guessing whether a pumpkin sinks, then testing it in the water table.Weighing three pumpkins, ordering them heaviest to lightest, graphing the result.Carving as geometry — planning the design on paper before it touches the pumpkin.
- Week 11 · OctoberNocturnal AnimalsOwls, bats, and everything awake while we are asleep.Try it at homeLook for the moon before bed.
- Week 12 · OctoberCostumes & PretendDressing up, acting out, and being someone else for an afternoon.Try it at homeLet them stay in character through dinner.
- Week 13 · OctoberBones & BodiesSkeletons, heartbeats, and what is going on under our skin.Try it at homeFind your own heartbeat together.
- Week 14 · NovemberWeather WatchersClouds, rain, wind, and the daring business of predicting tomorrow.Try it at homeLook up and describe the sky together.
- Week 15 · NovemberThankful HeartsNoticing what we are glad for, and saying it out loud.Try it at homeOne thing each at dinner.
- Week 16 · NovemberGathering & SharingSetting a table, passing a dish, and making room for one more.Try it at homeLet them set the table, badly.
- Week 17 · NovemberFamily TraditionsThe things your family does that nobody else does in quite the same way.Try it at homeTell them a tradition from your own childhood.
- Week 18 · DecemberWinter WondersCold mornings, mittens, and what happens to the world in December.Try it at homeTalk about what changed outside.
- Week 19 · DecemberLights & Celebrations★How families around the world light up the darkest month of the year.Try it at homePoint out the lights on the drive home.Soft light projections moving across the ceiling during floor time.Battery candles to carry, switch on, switch off, and switch on again.Making lanterns and hanging them where they catch the window light.Hearing how four different families light up December, then drawing their own.Mapping which celebration happens where, and finding it on a globe.Interviewing a family member about a tradition and reporting back to the room.
- Week 20 · DecemberCozy & KindBlankets, quiet corners, warm drinks, and doing one kind thing.Try it at homeRead one extra book under a blanket.
- Week 21 · JanuarySnow & IceMelting, freezing, and what water does when it gets cold enough.Try it at homeFreeze something and check on it together.
- Week 22 · JanuaryArctic AnimalsPolar bears, penguins, blubber, and the science of staying warm.Try it at homeAsk how a penguin keeps warm.
- Week 23 · JanuaryBears & HibernationSleeping through the whole winter and waking up extremely hungry.Try it at homeBuild a bear cave out of cushions.
- Week 24 · JanuaryNursery RhymesRhythm, rhyme, and the very first patterns of reading.Try it at homeSing one on the drive.
- Week 25 · FebruaryKindness & Hearts★What kindness looks like when it is a choice rather than a rule.Try it at homeNotice one kind thing they did, out loud.Gentle hands practised on soft dolls, narrated by a teacher every time.“Can I have a turn?” rehearsed until it becomes automatic.A kindness jar — one bead for every kind act anyone in the room notices.Drawing what a friend’s face looks like happy, sad, and left out.Writing a card for someone in the building who is not a classmate.Planning and running a small service project for one of the younger rooms.
- Week 26 · FebruaryHealthy BodiesTeeth, hands, sleep, and the food that fuels all of it.Try it at homeBrush teeth together and count to twenty.
- Week 27 · FebruaryThings That GoWheels, wings, tracks, and every way people get places.Try it at homeCount red cars on the way home.
- Week 28 · FebruarySpace & StarsPlanets, rockets, and just how far up actually goes.Try it at homeFind one star and name it together.
- Week 29 · MarchWind & KitesAn invisible force with extremely visible effects.Try it at homeHold a ribbon out the car window.
- Week 30 · MarchRainbows & RainLight, water, and where all the colours come from.Try it at homeMake a rainbow with a glass of water.
- Week 31 · MarchSeeds & Sprouts★Planting something and then waiting, which is by far the hardest part.Try it at homeCheck the sprout together each morning.Soil and smooth dried beans in a closely supervised sensory bin.Pressing seeds into dirt with one finger and patting it flat.Cups on the windowsill, checked every morning and watered far too much.Drawing the same sprout each day, then stacking the pages into a flipbook.Measuring growth in cubes, recording the number, comparing it to last week.Running a real variable — light versus dark — and defending the result.
- Week 32 · MarchBugs & ButterfliesLegs, wings, and the strangest transformation in all of nature.Try it at homeLook under a rock together.
- Week 33 · AprilPuddles & MudGetting gloriously filthy in the name of science.Try it at homeLet them jump in exactly one.
- Week 34 · AprilBaby AnimalsWho has babies, what they are called, and how they are looked after.Try it at homeMatch a baby animal to its parent.
- Week 35 · AprilOur EarthRecycling, litter, and taking care of a place we all share.Try it at homeSort the recycling together.
- Week 36 · AprilGardens GrowingRoots, stems, and dirt permanently under fingernails.Try it at homeWater something and let them do it.
- Week 37 · MayOcean & Tide Pools★Waves, shells, and everything living where the water meets the land.Try it at homeHold a shell to their ear.A shallow water table with floating shells and a great deal of splashing.Naming the animals and making their sounds — badly, and joyfully.Sorting sea creatures by size, then by whether or not they have fins.Counting the legs on an octopus and discovering that eight is quite a lot.Building a tide pool diorama and labelling what lives at each depth.Researching one species properly, then teaching it to the Pre-K room.
- Week 38 · MaySand & ShorePouring, digging, building, and knocking it all down again.Try it at homeBuild something and let the water take it.
- Week 39 · MayDinosaursEnormous, extinct, and endlessly interesting.Try it at homeAsk which one they would want to meet.
- Week 40 · MayLook How I’ve Grown★Looking back at the August photographs and seeing the difference.Try it at homePut the two photos side by side.August photographs beside today’s. Parents usually need a moment.Trying on the shoes they wore in August. They do not fit.Comparing their very first self-portrait with the one they draw today.Reading the name they wrote in Week 1, then writing it again underneath.The portfolio goes home, and the cap and gown come out.Writing a letter to whoever sits in their chair next August.
- Week 41 · JuneSun & ShadeHats, sunscreen, and hunting for the coolest spot on the playground.Try it at homeFind the shade together on a walk.
- Week 42 · JuneSplash & Water PlaySprinklers, buckets, and the physics of soaking somebody.Try it at homeLet them pour between two cups.
- Week 43 · JuneFrozen TreatsMelting, freezing, and the genuine urgency of eating fast.Try it at homeFreeze juice in a cup with a spoon in it.
- Week 44 · JuneCamping Out★Tents, flashlights, and pretending the classroom is a forest.Try it at homeBuild a blanket tent and eat in it.A low tent of soft fabric to crawl into, and a torch making shapes on the ceiling.Sleeping bags, pretend campfires, and carrying a flashlight everywhere for five days.Packing a bag for an imaginary trip and arguing over what is essential.Building a shelter that has to stay up on its own, then testing it with a fan.Mapping the campsite, labelling it, and giving directions from one point to another.Knots, campfire safety, and running a night-hike scavenger hunt for the little ones.
- Week 45 · JulyRed, White & BlueParades, flags, marching, and a great deal of noise.Try it at homeTalk about what a parade is actually for.
- Week 46 · JulyBubblesRound, floating, and briefly perfect.Try it at homeChase one across the yard together.
- Week 47 · JulySports & GamesThrowing, catching, taking turns, and losing without falling apart.Try it at homePlay one game they might lose.
- Week 48 · JulyUnder ConstructionHard hats, hammers, and building something that stays standing.Try it at homeStack something as tall as it will go.
- Week 49 · JulyMusic & MovementRhythm, instruments, and dancing without needing to be asked twice.Try it at homeLet them pick the music in the car.
- Week 50 · AugustAround the WorldFoods, flags, and how children somewhere else spend their day.Try it at homeTry a food from somewhere new.
- Week 51 · AugustEveryday HeroesThe people in our own neighbourhood worth noticing.Try it at homeThank someone out loud together.
- Week 52 · AugustReady for What’s NextNew room, new teacher, new backpack — one week to get used to the idea.Try it at homeTalk about what changes next week.
Weeks 41 – 52
June and July are weeks too.
The themes don’t stopCamping Out, Bubbles, Under Construction, Around the World. Summer has twelve themes of its own, planned exactly like the other forty.
Discover & GoFor ages 5–12, those weeks come with field trips, splash days and camp programming layered on top.
Nothing to arrangeNo June scramble, no July gap, no six weeks of patchwork cover. The rhythm your child knows simply carries on.
How we know it’s working
Themes are the what. This is the proof.
Every weekly theme is planned against the five Prismpath™ pillars, and progress is documented rather than assumed.
Daily documentation
Photos, notes, and observations shared with you as the week happens — not summarised months later.
ASQ-3 & GELDS
Developmental screenings at 4, 8, 12, 18 and 24 months, plus a full GELDS-aligned assessment each fall and spring.
Conferences twice a year
Sitting down together over your child’s real portfolio, agreeing what comes next.
New for 2026–27
What’s changed this year.
Curriculum StudioOur in-house Curriculum Studio gives teachers practical planning support, classroom resources, and activity ideas connected to the PrismPath™ framework.
Revised GELDS literacy guidanceUpdated Communication, Language, and Literacy guidance strengthens conversations, vocabulary, storytelling, and early reading foundations throughout the day.
Heggerty Phonics in Pre-KOur Pre-K classrooms now include playful, developmentally appropriate activities that build phonological and phonemic awareness through listening, rhyming, and sound play.
New enrichment activitiesSoccer, coding, and visits from the Tumble Gym Bus add more movement, problem-solving, creativity, and hands-on discovery to the year.
Evening meals for school-age childrenChildren in our afterschool program now receive an evening meal instead of a snack, supporting fuller afternoons of homework help, enrichment, and play.
Chroma Early Start on siteSpeech, occupational, and ABA therapy can be delivered inside a child’s familiar Chroma setting, helping care and developmental support stay connected.
Come see this week.
Not a sample day, not a showcase — whatever week we happen to be in when you visit. That’s rather the point.