We will...:

• be children and adults

• aspire to be students, teachers and friends

• be interesting and interested in others 

• be curious and lean into wonder

• practice social play and sense-making during interactions

• know ourself through others and our shared experiences

• use a variety of content

• Learn more

We will...:

• use words

• aspire to be communicators

• Learn A to Z Letters, sounds and words

• Explore, exploits and embody words

• A word can be worth a thousand stories

Learn more about A to Z

We will...:

• be musicians 

• enjoy music 

• let music shape our brain

• listen and learn some of the patterns

• listen and draw

• read some of the lyrics 

• write some of the lyrics

• change the lyrics to adapt the song

Learn more about Songs

We will...:

• be people captured in a time and place

• connect music to life experience

• experience life with people

• develop a sense of self with others

• use pictures to remember and imagine 

• look, draw and write about our thoughts

• learn to journal and be reflective

Learn more about slice of Life Journals

We will...:

• be  storytellers and actors

• see the page.

• seek out symbols, patterns, order, relations, categories 

• sing songs into the context

• speak narratives into the characters

  • remember context, explore your thoughts, reveal your attention through words

• experiment  with creative cognitive control 

Learn more about Story Plays

We will...:

• be  readers

• learn letters, images and sounds

• Decode words from songs

• learn to encode/decode words

  • Start with A to Z words, Short Vowels, Long Vowel

• learn to read (eyes) and write (hands)

  • practice accuracy and fluency

• Enjoy reading books at our level

Learn more about Phonics

We will...:

• be tool-shapers and problem solvers

• use the tool to do the task 

• use language to talk about the tool and the task.

• explain the sequences of steps to do the task

• demonstrate understanding of tools/toys in contexts

Learn more about Tools and Toys

We will...:

• be builders

• hold the blocks/puzzle

• feel their shapes

• look at the pieces from different angles

• fit the pieces together with imagination and intuition

Learn more about blocks and puzzles

We will...:

• be players in social interactions

• play games 

• play with rules (grammar)

• play the players (emotion and strategy)

• Learn to win, lose and overcome negative interactions

Learn more about games

We will...:

• be open to the reality of story

• use books for images and text

• use books to learn from characters and plot

• memorize bits (episodic)

• talk about story parts (semantic)

• use imagination to see the stories in your mind

• use intuition to make predictions

• understand characters and the challenges they face

• befriend the character

Learn more about books and media

We will...:

• be creatives

• use the tool to do the task 

• use language to talk about the doing task.

• explain the sequences of steps to do the task

• demonstrate knowledgeable and control over the  tools in contexts

Learn more about Projects