Curriculum Overview 

Through a prepared environment children will be exposed and encouraged to explore the fundamentals of reading, writing, mathematics, sciences, social studies and creative arts while integrating these basic concepts with practical life skills.

_______________   PRACTICAL LIFE   ________________

The practical life exercise help prepare a child for writing and reading skills by developing and encouraging the following:

• Concentration
• Independence
• Order
• Small Motor Skills
• Hand Eye Coordination

Examples of practical life exercises are: dressing frames, polishing shoes, washing hands, pouring water/rice, sweeping, dusting, folding, plant care, room care, food prep, scrubbing, peeling, washing, drying, cutting and pasting.

_________________   SENSORIAL   ________________

Sensorial exercises help children further their develoipment in these areas: matching, sorting, grading, classifying, sequencing and creating order. Sensory based lessons are the foundation for later works in language and mathematics.

• Visuals - knobbed cylinders, knobless cylinders, towers, long rods, geometric solids
• Tactile - rough and smooth boards
• Auditory - sound cylinders and bells
• Olfactory - smelling cylinders
• Gustatory - tasting tray

____________   LANGUAGE AND WRITING   ____________

• Vocabulary and Rhythmic Work
• Sandpaper Letters
• Moveable Alphabet
• Reading Theory
• Parts of Speech

_______________   MATHEMATICS   ________________

• Introduction to Numbers
• Decimal System
• Teens and Tens
• Memory Work
• Passage to Abstraction 
• Fractions

________________   GEOGRAPHY   _________________

• Puzzle Maps - North America, South America, Asia, Europe
• Sandpaper Globe
• Continent Globe
• Land, Air and Water
• Cultural Studies

_____________________   ART   ______________________

• Clay
• Colored Pencils
• Paint Trays
• Collage Trays
• Chalk