Adams & Haack Studio
Welcome!
Join our fall 2025 class!
Preschool for ages 2 - 4
fall 2024 enrollment now closed
September 2025 - June 2026
Creating an intimate community means a lot to us. With a maximum of 10 children, we are able to foster deep relationships with each child. Adams & Haack Studio is a nature based program, spending at least half of our day adventuring in Prospect Park. Explore our philosophy page to learn more about our program.
Location: 10th St, between 7th and 8th Ave.
Time: 9 - 2
Email: kaelynn@adamsandhaack.com
Our Team
Kaelynn Haack (she/her)
Lead Teacher & Founder
Kaelynn is thrilled to be able to walk alongside children as they discover their world, providing the nurturing support needed for them to brightly shine as their own, unique, fully capable selves. She learns so much from children, and is delighted to take her experience and passion for teaching, especially with the early childhood age group, to her own program. Read more here about how Adams & Haack came to be.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Iberian Studies, with a minor in Portuguese, from The University of Texas at Austin. She is fascinated by languages and other cultures, with traveling being one of her greatest joys. She is also a trained Doula in both postpartum and birth. In her free time, she enjoys painting, listening to podcasts, going to farmers markets, spending quality time with friends & family, listening to live music, and reading about childhood development. The amount of joy working with children brings her is boundless. She cannot believe her job is to play, create art, practice mindfulness, and explore nature with these magical beings!
Simone Forsberg (she/her)
Lead Teacher & Yoga Instructor
Simone comes from a tradition of education that reveres children as the leaders of their learning. A passionate learner herself, she earned her master’s degree in Child Development from Sarah Lawrence College where she focused her research on play, social-emotional learning, and human development. Before joining the team at Adams & Haack Studio, she worked as a two's-teacher at the Early Childhood Center at Sarah Lawrence and then as Associate Director of the Early Childhood Psychosocial Program at The Quad Preparatory School in Manhattan. As an educator, she is both a guide and a fellow learner, and she values play as children’s primary mode of learning. In addition to co-teaching, she is honored to facilitate the yoga programming at Adams & Haack, where the students learn through play, breathwork, creative movement, music, and literature. She is passionate about sharing yoga and mindfulness with children as practices of building awareness, cultivating community, and fostering self-love and care.
When not teaching, she finds joy in cooking, baking, traveling, needle-felting, and finding creative ways to stay organized!
Clementine Morse (she/her)
Teacher
Clementine is a born and raised Brooklynite with a background in outdoor education and forest school pedagogy. After receiving her BA in English from Reed College, Clementine lived in Los Angeles and worked at the Northeast LA Forest School. She feels lucky to have cut her preschool teaching teeth at an entirely outdoor school with an emphasis on play-based, experiential learning. At NELAFS she honed a teaching philosophy that values the curiosity and freedom of children, with the educator acting as a guide/ observer. She believes nature is one of the best teachers children can have. Clementine’s experience in education and childcare also includes working as a literacy tutor specializing in sensory-cognitive reading strategies for students with learning differences and as an afterschool programs leader for LAUSD.
Clementine is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Brooklyn College, so she spends her time outside of preschool doing a whole lot of writing and reading. In her real off-hours she enjoys going on crazy long bike rides, listening to music, and spending time with friends and family. Her favorite parts of being a preschool teacher include experiencing nature through the eyes of children and all of the storytelling. Most of all, she loves getting to bear witness to the magic, chaos (the safe kind), and sense of wonder that is the stuff of childhood.
Kami Haack (she/her)
Fun Curriculum Creator!
Kami, often referred to as Mom Kami, has worked in the field of Health and Human Services for thirty-five years, graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985 with a Bachelors in Education. A wife and mom of three, Kami knew at a young age she wanted to work with persons with special needs. She worked with children and adults within the State, public school, and private sectors, most recently as a Quality Assurance Specialist for a Home and Community Based Services Provider in Houston, Texas, from where she recently retired after 27 years. Kami’s attention to detail and desire to serve others enables her to serve and positively influence those she works with. At Adams & Haack Studio she helps with curriculum and assists with administration from her home in The Woodlands, TX. She enjoys her online and in-person visits with Adams & Haack very much. Her hobbies include decorating, reading, travel, embroidery and watercolor.
