Elms
Our elm room makes up our friends from 4 to 5 years old
Your child's interests
continue to drive the curriculum!!
This is our highest level of academics. The teachers in this
classroom are educated in Elementary Ed so our children are more than
kindergarden ready. Your child chooses
a topic to investigate and their teacher helps integrate language, math,
science, social studies and the arts into the investigation.
Long
term project work is done in large and small interest groups with this
age so they can explore the topics they have chosen and report back to
the group with what they've learned. This promotes a higher level
of problem solving. We also have an Art Teacher that comes in
twice a week and works in collaboration with the teachers on their
projects. Children explore, interview and create to advance their learning.
Visual arts are an integral part of our Reggio method of teaching.
The visual arts are used as a medium to visualize the growth in
children's learning.
The Language Literacy Component we follow is strongly integrated with this
age group. Each day they have joint writing time, they work on
their own repetitive
books, and they have journal time. Journal
time is started with our toddlers. Of course at that age they are
unable to write as we understand letters and words, but they are able to
develop the fine motor skills needed to write with a pencil. By
the time they reach this classroom, many of our students can write
letters and words quite well. Sign Language and Spanish are our 2
languages that are taught and used every day to promote understanding
among diverse cultures. Our "Today We" is a photographic
newsletter we send to you so you can watch your children's studies and
development daily.
