Kindergarten
Kinder 1
Montessori Philisophy
The learning structure of Kinder 1 follows the teaching style of Montessori. Children ranging from age 3-5 will study in one class, with emphasis and focus on independent learning, collaboration, and social skills. Older ones are able to lead the younger ones in specific skills that they have acquired, and teachers will go around the classroom giving individual attentions to each student.
Classroom has Montessori utensils and props to engage children in hands-on learning and child-sized furniture and items for children to practice social activities on their own. Teachers gently guide students to help maintain the organization and cleanliness of this environment to keep it orderly and attractive, and to help your child understand how to care for materials and clean up after themselves—skills you will be happy to observe carrying over in your home.
The Curriculum Focus
Practical Life
Children learn daily-life skills, such as how to get dressed, prepare snacks, set the table, and care for plants and animals. They also learn appropriate social interactions, such as saying please and thank-you, being kind and helpful, listening without interrupting, and resolving conflicts peacefully. In addition to teaching specific skills, Practical Life activities promote independence, and fine- and gross-motor coordination.
Sensorial
Children refine skills in perceiving the world through their different senses, and learn how to describe and name their experiences—for example, rough and smooth, perceived through touch. Sensorial learning helps children classify their surroundings and create order. It lays the foundation for learning by developing the ability to classify, sort, and discriminate—skills necessary in math, geometry, and language.
Math
Through hands-on activities, children learn to identify numerals and match them to their quantity, understand place-value and the base-10 system, and practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They also explore patterns in the numbering system. With an exploratory approach, children do more than just memorize math facts; they gain a firm understanding of the meaning behind them.
Language
Activities throughout the Early Childhood classroom teach language, help children acquire vocabulary, and develop skills needed for writing and reading. The ability to write, a precursor to reading, is taught first. Using hands-on materials, children learn letter sounds, how to combine sounds to make words, how to build sentences, and how to use a pencil. Once these skills are acquired, children spontaneously learn to read.
Cultural Studies
A wide range of subjects, including history, geography, science, art, and music, are integrated in lessons in the cultural area of the curriculum. Children learn about their own community and the world around them. Discovering similarities and differences among people and places helps them develop an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of our world, and a respect for all living things.
Kinder 2
Classroom-based Learning
Kinder 2 is a preparatory level to instill fundamental lessons and characteristics to enter Grade 1. As they shift from dynamic and independent learning of Kinder 1 into teacher guided program, students are now able to understand instructions, follow orders, given assessments, and advance academically in collaboration with their peers.
Curriculum Focus
Now that students can understand instructions and able to perform certain actions, they will be exposed to various skillsets and subjects that will enable them to advance academically.
English
To follow classroom-based teaching, one of the first skillsets that students need to be familiar with is reading. Modern age children are exposed to fast-moving and mass media contents that shorten their attention span and hinder learning ability. Our English class will instill on children the love for reading and ability to make sense of the words and sentences.
The 4 macro skills of English (Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing) are all covered in Kinder 2 level of English, allowing them to participate in regular English speaking classroom setting.
Social Studies / Art
Social studies and Arts are essential components of learning for Kinder 2 as they develop creativity, imagination, and characters that will shape their thinking. Teacher will provide various arts projects that will use many materials for children to gain sensory knowledge of their learning.
Collaboration, respecting peers and teachers, following rules and orders, self-discipline, and leaderships are the main focus of social studies session that will be measured by observing their classroom behaviors.
Math
Physical Education
Science
Characters and Social Activities