Our Program for Children
       
Curriculum
In addition to their daily work with early childhood materials, the children in each classroom participate in a carefully planned social studies curriculum.

Twos Program
The 2s program is simply about the school experience itself. It is about learning to say goodbye to a caregiver in order to spend time with new adults and a peer group in a structured classroom environment.

Threes Program

The 3s study their own families, with a focus on different kinds of families and the ways in which family members help and support one another.

Fours Program
The 4s learn about themselves in our Growing Up Curriculum. This involves the making of individual books that are both a record of the school year and a record of each child’s experience of growing up. The books include artwork, dictation, photographs, and records of studies done as a class.

Fours/Fives Program
The 4/5s branch out to study the school community and neighborhood. They take walking trips to explore local businesses. They observe and record what they see using words, pictures and graphs. It is within this meaningful and exciting context that the children are gradually introduced to the more formal learning of letters and numbers.

 

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