The preschool and kindergarten program (ages 3-6) focuses on four main areas of study: Practical life, Sensorial, Math and Language.
Practical Life provides lessons on how children can care for themselves, others and the environment.
Activities may include: dressing frames, pouring exercises, spooning, preparing food, sewing, using tools, folding, opening and closing, silence game, walking on a line
Benefits: builds self-confidence, body consciousness, self awareness, control and refinement of movement, coordination, ability to care for oneself and the environment, and social skills that focus on grace and courtesy.
Sensorial provides lessons on how children use the 5 senses and how they organize things based on these senses.
Activities may include: Use touch, smell, taste, sight and listening to explore their environment. Developing and refining their senses when they are naturally taking information in through their senses. Children after the age of five tend to rely on their visual sense over the other senses for perceiving their world. If they have refined their senses they will use them and their past experiences to perceive their world correctly. They will be more observant and will take in information that would otherwise be lost.
Benefits: ability to discriminate differences, similarities and identities, enhances the memory, improves imagination and builds an appreciation and interpretation of the fine arts.
Math provides the means for the child to discover the basic of mathematics.
Activities may include: using concrete materials - introduction to the quantity and symbol for 1 - 10, writing numerals, introduction to the operations (+ x - :) with complex numbers, linear counting to 100, moving to the point of memorization of basic facts.
Benefits: ability to calculate using the decimal system, basic ability to add and subtract, provides a foundation to move towards memorization of basic facts.
Language provides the basic skills for complete writing and reading.
Activities may include: introduction to vocabulary including scientific terms, introduction of the short phonetic sounds of the letters which leads into word building and beginning reading. To help the child become more fluid in her/his reading letter combinations are introduced to allow the child to decipher words that are not purely phonetic. As the child begins reading books sight words are introduced. Parts of speech are presented to the child to allow the child to gain a deeper understanding of what is being read as well as allow their creative writing to blossom. Development of pencil skills and the development of the child's physical writing skills which we introduce in the cursive format as it is a more natural movement for the child.
Benefits: basic skills for writing and reading, interpretive reading, creative writing.
Art, music, drama, and gymnastics are also included in this program.
Note: Fees are for the 2010-2011 year only. Fees are subject to change without notice.
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