LS Curriculum Detail

PS 5 Full Days

Preschool Full Day/5 Days per Week

  • Child-Centered Learning

    As with our preschool program, the pre-k program is guided by Quaker values and draws best practices in  early childhood education. Our program emphasizes community and responsibility, with respect for each individual, through practices that encourage student-initiated exploration.

  • Music & Movement

    Preschool students have many opportunities to sing, move, and listen to music. They participate in regular movement and music classes in support of daily exposure to music in the classroom. Students explore tone and rhythm, and elements of sound, silence, space, and time in children’s songs, traditional folk songs, seasonal music and with instruments.
     

  • PS Language Arts

    Preschool children are rapidly acquiring language, experimenting with verbal sounds and beginning to use language to solve problems and to learn concepts. The program seeks to make the most of the opportunity presented by this developmental stage. A key focus in the classroom is daily exposure to children’s literature, reciting poems and rhymes, singing songs, and “finger plays.” Objectives for receptive language development include the skills to follow one-step directions and to engage in auditory and visual discrimination when recalling stories and songs. Children work with various manipulatives to develop fine motor skills; they utilize drawing and writing materials, and learn to cut with scissors. Children are encouraged and actively supported in the use of language skills to articulate their wants, needs, and thoughts throughout the day, in their communications with teachers and classmates. 
     

  • PS Mathematics

    Preschool students explore mathematical concepts each day. They are exposed to numbers, counting, shapes, and colors through hands-on activities, everyday routines, and interactions with their outdoor environment. Counting, sorting, and patterning are incorporated into daily transitions, small group activities, and gross motor activities. Additional mathematical activities include comparing objects by size, shape, and color. Math through literature is also a key element in exposing children to new concepts and language to help to support mathematical understanding.

  • PS Performing Arts

    Preschool students have many opportunities to sing, move, and listen to music. They participate in regular movement and music classes in support of daily exposure to music in the classroom. Students explore tone and rhythm, and elements of sound, silence, space, and time in children’s songs, traditional folk songs, seasonal music and with instruments.

  • PS Science

    Preschool students are engaged in multi-sensory science experiences throughout the year. These activities encourage children to observe, predict, estimate, count, measure, record, discuss, and develop an appreciation for living things.
     

  • PS Social Science

    Appropriate to the age of our preschool students, social studies topics are examined through the children’s personal experience and the experiences of people around them. Students are encouraged to share their family traditions and celebrations with classmates, and teachers seek to provide additional resources, from within and outside of school, to help students to develop an appreciation of different cultures. Students are active members of their community, taking on “jobs” that demonstrate a shared responsibility for classroom management, and they engage in service learning that contributes to the broader community as well.
     

  • PS Visual Arts

    The preschool visual arts program respects the ability of each child and honors the belief that young children can construct meaningful knowledge and understanding. The goal of the visual arts program in these early years is to promote individual imagination and creativity, communication with others, and the joy of creating group projects together.
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Preschool - 12th Grade
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