We Grow as Giants
Preschool
Toddler Program: Montessori classroom with 2-3 year old children.
Preschool: Montessori classrooms with 3-5 year old children. Students remain in the same class for the entire three-year cycle. 7:45AM to 2:55PM.
Curriculum
“Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.” – Maria Montessori
The Preschool Curriculum is grounded in the Montessori Method and consists of 8 strands, as shown below.
Practical Life
Real life experiences that build the foundation of future academic skills through purposeful activities, while developing independence, order, concentration, motor control and coordination, sense of responsibility, and social skills.
Practical Life
Language Arts
Oral language, pre-reading and pre-writing activities, enhancing vocabulary and exploring spoken and written language.
Language arts
Sensorial
Sensorial activities develop and refine the five senses. Children become precise observers, leading to the abstraction of ideas, logical thinking and the ability to distinguish, categorize and relate new information to what they already know. The materials also serve to expand the child’s vocabulary in a very concrete way.
Sensorial
Math
Introduction to numeration (symbols and quantities from 0 to 10), linear counting (symbols and quantities from 1 to 100), skip counting to 1000 (using bead chains), and the decimal system (units, tens, hundreds and thousands) through exchange and bank games.
Math
Social Studies
Geography consists of materials related to the children's understanding of the world around them (planet, continents, countries, culture, etc). History is also developed through the children’s world, their daily routine, days, months, seasons, telling time, and birthdays (which are well celebrated).
Social Studies
Science
Science activities allow the child to manipulate and experience materials that help them discover natural laws. Students learn science through hands-on experiences (sink and float, magnetic and non magnetic, gardening, etc), and classification activities (living and nonliving, plant-animal-mineral life cycles).
Science
K5 Child Protection
Students understand personal safety, develop skills in recognizing and responding to unsafe situations, and identifying trusted adults. The curriculum includes: naming body parts (use of correct anatomical terms),privacy (personal space), decision making, giving consent, respectful behaviors and language, recognizing emotions, empathy, self-respect, internet safety, reporting situations to trustworthy adults.
Safeguarding / Child Protection
Língua Portuguesa
Alunos de 4 e 5 anos participam das aulas de Português, o chamado “Brazilian Program”, ou simplesmente BP. Seguimos a Base Nacional Comum Curricular, dentro do campo de experiência “Escuta, Fala, Pensamento e Imaginação”.
Língua Portuguesa
Montessori VIDEO
Source: American Montessori Society
Safeguarding / Child Protection
EAC recognizes that child protection and welfare considerations permeate all aspects of school life and must be reflected in all of the school’s policies, practices and activities.
The goal of this policy is to ensure that all parties work together to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children. This policy recognizes the proactive training that EAC must undertake to educate students, parents, faculty and staff about child protection. It also stresses the process and procedures to be followed in cases of suspected child abuse.
All adults who come into contact with children are appropriately and thoroughly vetted and trained.
