Social and Emotional development: Social-Emotional development refers to a child’s ability to identify feelings, self-regulate and to build relationships.

Physical development: Physical development refers to a child’s gross and fine motor skills. To increase strength, muscle control and coordination, the child requires adequate nutrition and fitness levels.

Physical Development integrated within The Little School Curriculum include:

Language and Literacy: Language and literacy skills refer to a child’s ability to communicate and connect with others through listening, speaking, reading and writing. It includes Language and Literacy Skills and Skill Goals integrated within The Little School Curriculum include:

Math and Reasoning: Math and reasoning skills include a child’s ability to count, understand number sense, manipulate objects in space, create patterns, sort, compare and measure.

Mathematics and Reasoning Skills and Skill Goals integrated within The Little school:

Social Studies: Social Study skills refer to a child’s ability to understand oneself in relation to the surrounding world. It includes the exploration of roles, responsibilities and cultural traditions. Children live within many different communities: family, school, religion, city, nation, and world. Within each community are different social rules and traditions. Understanding of social systems sets the stage for a child’s lifelong dispositions about people, cultures and how he belongs within these systems. The Little School invites children to explore diverse communities, which enables children to integrate.

Social Studies Skills and Skill Goals integrated within The little School Curriculum include:

Science: Science skills include a child’s ability to inquire, predict and evaluate observations. It supports a child’s ability to explore everyday life, physical properties within the surrounding environment and to make sense of concepts such as weather, natural habitats, and technology.

Similar to learning to count or read, learning how to “do” science is a lifelong process. Metacognitive skills develop as children describe what they see, ask questions about it, repeat the experience, and then think about how it connects to what they know about their surrounding environment. The Little school leverages science-based projects and processes throughout the curriculum because science discovery serves as an ideal conduit for supporting children’s learning across different domains.

Science Skills and Skill Goals integrated within The Little School Curriculum include:

Creative Development: Creative development is the ability to respond to experiences by expressing ideas and the imagination through music, dance, dramatic play and art.

Children who score higher on tests of imagination and creativity develop stronger problem-solving strategies (Brown, Sutterfy &Thronton, 2008). The Little School is an arts-infused curriculum that allows children to take risks, make connections, and explore their curiosity in personally meaningful ways through visual arts, music, dance and dramatic play. “Play is a safe place where children are exploring the expression of emotion with no attending consequences” (Gaskins and Miller, 2009).

Creative Development Skills and Skill Goals integrated within The Little School Curriculum include:

Second Language Acquisition: Learning a second language is a complex social and cognitive process. It includes phases from pre-production where children observe and respond but only with gestures. Over time, the child will progress into speech emergence and then ultimately gain fluency both in second language comprehension and communication.

The Little School curriculum includes numerous bilingual tools, colourful visual aids, and hands-on projects that invite children from diverse language backgrounds to participate successfully in the learning community and routines of day. By engaging the child and encouraging him to express himself in the second language throughout the day builds natural connections between real-life and language concepts (Clark, 2000).

Second Language Acquisition Skills and Skill Goals integrated within The Little School Curriculum include: