Children learn to listen and express themselves. Play remains an important part of the day. The curriculum focuses on language arts and mathematics as the foundations of academic growth. While expectations are high, teachers are sensitive to individual differences in rate of development and learning styles. Basic skills like phonics, spelling, addition, and sub-traction are studied at each grade level so that the child can apply them to widening areas of experience with increasing flexibility and confidence.
Students use computers as tools for accomplishing age-appropriate tasks.
Homeroom experiences are supplemented with regular classes in science, music, visual arts, and physical education. Grades Three and Four Children begin to relate ideas to the facts and forms they have learned. They start to be independent thinkers, using with increasing mastery the basic skills they acquired earlier. They come to understand themselves as individuals, forming social relation-ships through which they distinguish between responsibilities to themselves and to others. The curriculum focuses on arithmetic operations of all sorts, and, in English, a growing awareness of style as well as widening vocabulary and skill in writing.