The Wellness and Life Skills program contains three core areas of focus. The first is teaching students to identify emotions, perceive and recognize others’ perspectives, solve problems and manage emotions. The second focuses on mindfulness. Using a research-based curriculum, students are taught skills which build resilience to stress and anxiety, and develop a positive mindset…

Students build on previous knowledge by adding new thematic vocabulary and more challenging phrases, learned responses and brief sentences. Students also learn topics that are integrated with their classroom studies. The cultural focus allows students to learn about many aspects of life in the Spanish-speaking world. Students also engage with the language through many interactive…

Our lessons at this stage concentrate on movement and skill development. Students build upon the fundamental skills learned early in the year and progress to apply them in more game situations as the year continues. Teamwork, cooperation and fair play are reinforced in each class. Cooperative games, individual and partner work and other physical challenges…

Music classes are taught using the Orff approach, involving listening, movement, singing and other creative activities. Students develop skills in music theory and instrumental music, playing instruments such as the xylophone and other percussion instruments. Students perform at weekly Inspirations and at holiday and spring concerts, showcasing the curriculum. Students also are introduced to movement…

We have two main goals in Library: to help students become successful seekers, users and integrators of information from many sources, and to promote reading as a lifelong skill and pleasure. Skills to seek, evaluate and synthesize information are implemented across the grades at developmentally appropriate levels. Each class also includes a read-aloud story and…

From coding with Scratch Jr., to designing and developing their own instructional YouTube videos, students begin to apply order, shapes and sequential instructions to activities and objects that are personally relevant. Through discovering, engineering, tinkering and sharing, students engage in the self-directed learning process that is crucial to innovation. These opportunities are integrated throughout the…

We expose students to a variety of media and explore different art disciplines including drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, clay animation and sculpture. Fundamental painting and drawing skills are reinforced with projects from imagination and observation. Students mix colors to create secondary and tertiary colors. They are also introduced to different drawing media, including pencil, graphite,…

Science in the Lower School is designed to tap into young students’ natural curiosity about their environment and how the world works. We help students, through inquiry, to continually build on their abilities and revise their knowledge. Our goals for the program are to provide students with engaging hands-on opportunities and experiences to guide them…

Social Studies incorporates the study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. Within the Lower School program, Social Studies provides a coordinated, systematic study drawing upon geography, history, economics and political science and relevant content from language arts, mathematics and the sciences. The primary purpose of social studies is to help young…

Students have repeated experiences breaking one number into two parts or combining two parts to form a whole, and they consider the relationship between the parts. Students work with composing and decomposing numbers to 20 and focus on addition combinations of 10. Students model and solve addition and subtraction problems to clarify and communicate their…