Early Childhood
Beginning with our Early Childhood Program and continuing through our Elementary School Program, our faculty inspires and challenges each child to reach his or her individual potential. In addition, parents are considered part of our community of learners and are an integral part of the daily activities of the school.
Teachers create an environment that affords the potential for learning. We focus on projects and activities in a balanced, integrated way. The daily schedule includes a broad variety of activities that incorporate both group and individual activities. Learning centers are an integral component of our Early Childhood Program. Teachers prepare centers in conjunction with curriculum plans and add new special interest centers as needed. The majority of the day is spent engaged in classroom activities, specialty classes and fine motor and gross motor activities. The program is designed to stimulate learning in physical, social, emotional and intellectual domains.
Early Childhood students experience language development through a variety of activities. They are provided with daily opportunities to observe how language is relevant to their lives. Our teachers incorporate storytelling, songs, poems, finger plays, rhymes, and sharing time. Letter sounds and names are incorporated into each of these activities as well.
Students are prepared for kindergarten by learning the connection between written and oral language. Developmentally appropriate reading skills are introduced in our Pre-kindergarten program utilizing the McGraw-Hill reading series.
Students learn basic pre-math concepts by engaging in multiple activities which include identifying basic shapes, counting, size comparing, repeating simple patterns, sorting, sequencing numbers and matching, number rhymes and finger plays. Math Readiness skills are enhanced with a series of activities involving counting, sorting, comparing, sequencing, patterning, matching and number rhymes in an effort to increase basic skills while challenging each individual's capacities. The Everyday Mathematics Curriculum is introduced in our Pre-kindergarten program.
Science is a valuable component of our Early Childhood Program and is incorporated through numerous opportunities for hands-on investigation, exploration and observation, as well as the measuring and mixing preparation of theme-related snacks. Our science curriculum is closely related to all our themes.
Our social studies curriculum involves a personal focus on students. It encompasses learning about themselves, their families, community helpers and the different multicultural holidays.