CURRICULUM                      

PRACTICAL LIFE

One of ECM's primary goals is to develop in the very young child a strong and realistic sense of independence and self-reliance. Along with love and a stable environment, this is the child’s greatest need. There is a growing pride in being able to “do it for myself.” Practical life, an area of the curriculum focusing on self-control and dealing with the social and physical environment, begins as soon as the young child enters school and continues throughout the curriculum to more and more advanced tasks appropriate for the oldest students, like running a small business, budgeting money, and making consumer purchasing decisions.

SENSORY DEVELOPMENT

Exercises in perception, observation, fine discrimination, and classification help our students develop their sense of logic and concentration. At the Early Childhood level these experiences include activities which assist the student in developing fine discriminations and categorizations using all of their senses. Participation in these activities prepares children for science as well as geometry and algebra. Elementary students continue to refine the use of their senses by making precise observations of the natural world.

LANGUAGE ARTS

We begin to teach reading as soon as that interest is first expressed. Every curriculum area of the Early Childhood and Elementary classrooms creates and reinforces in our young children a spontaneous interest in learning how to read and write... (continues on next page)