Classes
“A Prepared Environment for Independent Learning, Exploration, Growth, and Lifelong Skills Development”
5-6 Years Old (Kindergarten)
Third Year (5-6 years) builds independence through Practical Life, Sensorial, Math, Language, Geography, and Science. Activities enhance motor skills, problem-solving, reading, writing, critical thinking, and exploration.
Third Year 5-6 Years Old
Practical Life
Developing Skills:
- Order
- Concentration
- Coordination and Independence
Preliminaries:
- Opening and Closing a Door
- Getting in and out of a Chair
- Rolling and Carrying a Rug
- Carrying a Tray
- Carrying a Bucket
- Carrying and Placing a Chair
- Carrying a Table
Fine Motor Skills:
- Folding
- Pouring solids and liquids
- Pouring with a Funnel
- Pouring and measuring
- Spooning
- Large Ladling
- Scooping
- Screwing and Unscrewing Caps and Bottles
- Pipes and Fittings
- Clipping Clothespins
- Eyedropper Exercise
- Wooden Bead Sorting
Care of Self:
- Snap Frame
- Button Frame
- Zipper Frame
- Bow Frame
- Lacing Frame
- Buckle Frame
- Hook Frame
- Clothes Brushing
- Clothes Washing
- Shoe Polishing
- Hand Washing
- Clean Fingernails
- Hair Combing
- Nose Blowing
- Teeth Brushing
Care of Environment:
- Dusting
- Floor Sweeping
- Floor Mopping
- Table and Chair
- Scrubbing
- Dish Washing
- Polishing a Mirror
- Polishing Silver and Wood
- Leaf Sponging
- Watering Plants
- Flower Arranging
- Planting Flowers
Grace and Courtesy:
- “Pardon Me”
- “Please”
- “Come in”
- “Excuse Me”
- “How Do You Do?”
- Introductions
Food Preparation:
- Banana Cutting
- Slicing
- Stringing Beads
Sensorial
- Secondary Colors and Color Gradation
- Sensory Discrimination
- Plane Geometry – definitions
- Solids and Insets
- Geometrical Cabinet
- Trinomial Cube
Math
- Recognizing numbers 1-100
- Numbers that come before, middle, and after
- Number Concepts
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Continue with place value (re-grouping)
- Linear counting, skip counting, and cubing long chains (cube chains)
- Learning abstractions with the number charts
Language
- Alphabet sounds and names
- Phonograms – middle and ending sounds
- Vowel rules
- Consonant blends
- Syllables
- D Prefix, Suffix, and Base words
- Creative writing
- Handwriting Reading Comprehension (Facts, details, main idea,outcome and critical thinking)
- Function of words
- Parts of Speech (Antonyms, Homonyms, Synonyms)
- Alphabetical Order
- Dictionary Skill
Geography
- Cultural diversity and peace
- Land air and water
- Land and water forms
- Maps/Flags
- Solar system
Science Experiments
- Experiments
- Animals (mammals, amphibians, reptiles)
- Insects
- Plants
- Weather