CURRICULUM HIGHLIGHTS

Play Group “Explorations”

• Welcome to School

• Fall Fun

• Holiday Sharing and Caring

• Winter Wonders

• Bears, Bears Everywhere

• Planes, Trains and Trucks

• Spring is Here

Preschool “Explorations”

• All About Me

• Fall Investigation: Weather, Fruits & Vegetables, Trees

• Friendship, Community and Thanksgiving

• Winter Investigation: Weather, Animals, Trees

• Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes

• Spring Investigation: Insects, Birds, Nature’s Changes and Caring for our Earth

• Ocean Life

Pre-Kindergarten “Explorations”

• All About Me

• Nature and Harvest in Fall

• Friendship, Community and Thanksgiving

• Exploring Winter Holidays and Traditions

• Nature in Winter

• Project-Based Learning (Emergent from each class)

• Nature in Spring: Birds, Butterflies and Bugs

• Our Pre-Kindergarten students receive daily instruction in language & literacy, readiness & writing, and math & numbers from the Learning Without Tears’ Pre-K program: Get Set for School.

Kindergarten “Explorations”

• Coral Reef

• Rainforest

• Native Americans

• Holidays around the World

• Opossum Study and Individual Animal Research Projects

• Polar Regions

• Weather

• Life Cycle Study: Seeds to Plants, Egg Hatch and Butterflies

• Springtime in Paris / Artist Study

• Our Kindergarten students receive daily instruction in language & literacy, writing and math using Wilson Fundations, Kid Writing, Mathematics Their Way, and Singapore Math.