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Early Childhood Division
Highlights
- Developmentally appropriate programs and a hands-on approach to learning, nurturing the whole child through focus on emotional, social, physical, and intellectual needs
- Pre-reading program using Project Read, a multi-sensory, phonemic-based program, which is supplemented with carefully selected elements from whole language and the Letterland programs
- Children’s literature, information books, poems, rhymes, songs, and finger plays develop a rich basis in expressive and receptive language
- Pre-writing and creative writing using a combination of story dictation, invented spelling, and sight words
- Art, focusing on the process of exploration and creative self-expression, using a variety of materials
- Hands-on math employs a range of manipulatives to teach number concepts, patterning, sorting and classifying, comparing, and logical thinking
- Social studies curriculum emphasizing family, community, and the world
- Classroom science activities focusing on the body, nutrition, animals, plants, insects, the environment, and seasons
- Separate classes with specialty teachers in French, music, library, physical education, science, yoga and art
- Peer reading program with Lower School partners
- Curriculum-based field trips to the Lenox Fire Station, Berkshire Museum and Aquarium, Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory, local farms, and other community destinations
- Responsive Classroom® approach used to foster social and personal development
- Extensive parent/teacher communication, including weekly newsletters, daily contact, bi-annual student profiles, comments, and parent-teacher conferences twice each year
- Applicants must be age four by August 31
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