Early learning school photography

The Goddard School in Farmington

Classroom discovery, teacher connections and the people behind the school, photographed by Legend Photo & Film in Farmington, Connecticut.

Photography by Legend Photo & Film.

Three young children play with curved wooden pieces and wooden blocks on a classroom rug while a smiling adult looks on from behind a low shelf

Discovery at the table

A boy in a yellow and navy plaid shirt lifts a green magnifier to his face and studies a tray of stones, shells and bark. The magnifier covers most of his eyes, so the photograph is about attention rather than a smile.

The orange tray, the wooden table and the soft classroom behind him keep the frame warm and uncluttered.

A boy in a yellow and navy plaid shirt looks through a green magnifier at stones, shells and bark on an orange tray

Learning through play

The header photograph shows three children with curved wooden pieces on a patterned rug. The frames below follow those pieces from one pair of hands to the next: two boys set a toy animal on a tunnel, a third child laughs while holding a toy bear, three children tilt and arrange ramps, and a boy crawls toward the lens past a wooden tunnel.

Most of the frames are made close to floor level, at the children's height. More than one child stays in the picture so the shared activity is visible.

Two boys sit on a classroom rug and place a toy animal on curved wooden tunnels

A laughing boy holds a toy bear between two children building with wooden pieces on a rug

Three children arrange and hold curved wooden ramps on a classroom rug

A smiling boy in a plaid shirt crawls toward the camera past a curved wooden tunnel while another child plays behind him

Teacher connections

A teacher holds up a board book titled Families while a young girl leans in to look. In the next frame the same girl holds out two small toy animals and the teacher answers with open hands. In the third, a teacher sits among toddlers on a tree-patterned rug.

These photographs stay close to the interactions and let the room soften behind them.

A teacher holds up an orange board book titled Families for a young girl in a pink sweatshirt

A young girl in a pink sweatshirt holds out two small toy animals toward a teacher with open hands

A toddler turns over an orange toy bus on a rug among wooden toy vehicles while an adult sits with two other children

Color and concentration

A toddler lifts a white shape sorter above a bowl of colorful pieces, and another looks up with a smile from a table of red, blue, green and yellow wooden blocks.

The bright toys against natural wood and soft gray walls give both photographs their color.

A toddler in a blue hooded outfit lifts a white shape sorter with colorful holes above a blue bowl of colorful blocks

A smiling toddler sits at a wooden table with red, blue, green and yellow wooden blocks in front of a wall of cubbies

The people behind the school

Two staff members stand together on the playground beside a yellow Find the Spinners panel and a sign reading The Goddard School. In a second portrait, one sits in a wooden rocking chair while the other stands beside her on a blue, nature-patterned rug.

This page presents thirteen photographs selected from the Farmington session. It is a selection, not the full set.

Two staff members stand side by side on a playground next to a Find the Spinners panel and a sign reading The Goddard School

One staff member sits in a wooden rocking chair and another stands beside her on a blue nature-patterned rug in a classroom with cribs behind them

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