Curriculum is defined as what we teach and how we teach it. With our firm mission, wonderful resources, talented faculty and high academic standards, we review our objectives and methods continually. This allows us to make thoughtful curricular decisions to improve the quality of our programs. It is our goal that the program provides opportunities for high academic engagement where students are motivated to think independently, apply information, and synthesize ideas.
The language arts program provides rich and varied experiences in each of the four interrelated language skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading. We recognize that there are many ways in which children learn how to read. Our program builds on what the children already know about oral and written language and takes into account each child's learning style, interests, motivation and level of maturation. Carefully structured activities involve the children in functional language experiences and provide opportunities for literacy development in a stimulating and non-pressured way.
The basis of our social studies program is the idea that conversations and exploration stimulate children's curiosity about the world around them. The overall topics of study—Basic Needs and Identity—are meaningful and directly relevant to Kindergarten children.
The mathematics program provides experiences for students to use materials that allow them to explore, formulate, test, discuss, and construct numerical concepts. Students come to see the usefulness of math and its relevance to everyday situations through a wide variety of activities suited to their age, readiness and interests. Materials used include Cuisenaire rods, unifix-cubes, geo-boards, pattern-blocks and attribute blocks, iPads, as well as other everyday objects.
At Minds of the Future Academy, even our youngest students begin to learn science by doing science. Students meet in half groups once per seven day cycle and perform a sequence of hands-on inquiry based projects chosen to complement the themes of “Basic Needs and Identity” from the Kindergarten Social Studies program.
As natural investigators, Kindergarteners devise questions, make predictions, and offer explanations for observed phenomena. Organized around the concepts of Earth, Air, and Water, the children test their ideas through experimentation. Self-expression and the ability to communicate their ideas to one another as they learn are central to their exploration of both scientific concept and material.
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