Classroom Curricula

Each team of teachers provides a child-centered learning environment, taking into account the children’s interests when planning their curricula.

Our five classrooms are designated by color and children are grouped by age:

Orange Room (Youngest Toddler Room)- 9 Children to 2 Teachers

The Orange Room curriculum is developed for children approximately 15 months to 2 years old. The main goal is to provide a safe, comfortable and fun environment for children to learn and grow within. In most cases, it is the child's first experience in a school setting.

We focus on the separation and the child’s adjustment into a group setting. We try to help each toddler to respect each other, work on self-help skills, and explore his/her environment. We accomplish this by assisting toddlers in their daily interactions with each other by listening and responding to their emerging language, and by providing appropriate choices of activities to encourage experimentation. Our priority in the Orange Room is for the children to become confident in their abilities in a safe and nurturing environment.

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Yellow Room (Toddler Room)- 9 Children to 2 Teachers

The Yellow Room is often a child's first experience in a school setting and our first priority is to provide an environment that feels nurturing and safe. We adhere to a daily routine to provide predictability to a child’s day, with an emphasis on process and open-ended activities.

Although we encourage children to experience diverse activities, we respect their desire to make choices and experiment in a way that is meaningful to him/her. Overall, our yellow room curriculum enhances the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of each child.

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In the purple room, children make sense through “doing” and in play, they can be in charge and do their own thinking as well as learn how to enter into play with other children, negotiate the direction of play, and show empathy. Their direct and repeated experiences help build their neural pathways and muscular coordination, and sensory memory.

We encourage the extension of children’s language through modeling, waiting and listening, scaffolding, asking open ended questions and most importantly, using the opportunities embedded in the play situations. Learning songs, finger plays and games at circle time is another avenue towards language fluency. Overall, children in the Purple Room are beginning to explore and manipulate their physical and social world.

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The Green Room provides a place where children learn to listen to one another, respect each others feelings, and work out problems. We explore the world in a variety of ways, including art, science, dramatic play, stories, singing, and outdoor activities. The classroom is set up into distinct areas with materials that are designed to facilitate the children’s exploration and manipulation of their physical and social world.

We participate in daily activities such as reporting on the weather, learning about the days, weeks, and months through counting and patterning on the calendar, singing songs and listening to stories. The children explore the world in a variety of ways, including art, science, dramatic play, stories, singing, and outdoor activities.

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The main priority in the Blue Room is to continue a developmental curriculum and prepare children for kindergarten. The classroom is designed so that children are free to explore a variety of activities in certain designated areas. We participate in daily activities such as weather recall, calendar and patterns, and singing songs.

Children are encouraged to share their thoughts and ideas, and to take part in various brainstorming activities like creating a class book, thinking of new class themes, and being involved in various story recall projects. Overall, we focus on self-help and social skills while nurturing the interests of the students in an emergent theme based curriculum.

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