Curriculum
Our course of learning focuses on the following scholastic and life skills:
- Social-Emotional Development
- Language Development
- Intellectual Development
- Mathematical Development
- Arts Development
- Scientific and Environmental Awareness Development
- Motor Development
Learn more about each of these objectives below.
Developmental Objectives: What the Child Learns Through Play
Play is a child's work and is vital to a child's learning. It allows children to express themselves and make sense of the world. Play provides a meaningful learning of cognitive concepts and promotes social development. Through play, children learn to initiate and sustain relationships with others, and to build trust and emotional maturity.
Social-Emotional Development
- Developing independence in choosing activities, seeing to personal needs and meeting new challenges
- Developing confidence in self and abilities
- Beginning to control emotions in socially acceptable ways
- Moving from absorption with self to awareness of others
- Moving toward cooperative play
- Extending concentration and attention span
Language Development
- Mastering speech sounds appropriate to age
- Learning speech structures: simple sentences, past tense and pronouns
- Using oral language with confidence for a range of purposes: naming, describing, comparing, explaining, reasoning, predicting, directing, questioning, judging and expressing imagination
- Developing vocabulary, becoming more elaborate and precise
- Learning to follow directions
- Developing thinking skills basic to reading: sequence, details, character
- Developing concepts of print: left-to-right orientation and sound/letter relationships
- Developing reading strategies: picture cues, context cues and phonic cues
- Moving from oral composing to beginning writing: child's own name and a few words, as well as personal composing
- Learning French through conversation, stories, songs and play activities at a level suitable to child's age and ability
Intellectual and Mathematical Development
- Identifying base attributes, such as colour, shape and size
- Classifying according to basic attributes
- Ordering a series of graduated objects
- Extending and reordering a graduated sequence
- Recognizing and creating a repetitive pattern
- Extending spatial concepts: self in space, objects in space
- Relating parts to a whole
- Learning one-to-one correspondence
- Understanding sets
- Learning relative measurement and relative time
- Learning conservation of number and length
- Moving from concrete to increasingly abstract concepts and representations

Arts Development
- Developing creativity and imaginative expression in picture-making, two and three-dimensional models and movement and dance
- Learning out distinguish pitch, rhythm and tempo, timbre and volume
- Learning to sing a repertoire of songs and action games
- Extending individual fantasy into socio-dramatic play
Scientific and Environmental Awareness Development
- Learning to distinguish self from others
- Becoming aware of family and social relationships
- Developing sensory awareness
- Identifying most body parts
- Becoming aware of growth change and ecological interdependence
- Increasing knowledge of properties common to nonliving things, such as sound and water

Motor Development
- Developing coordination necessary for stability (balance, rhythm, control), locomotion (walking, running, hopping, skipping and climbing) and manipulation (handling small toys, tracing and cutting)
- Becoming increasingly graceful and rhythmically expressive
