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CORE CURRICULUM
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The Maternelle provides a
learning environment that promotes children's autonomy while
allowing their natural interests to channel through new
acquisitions.
Our program follows the French
National Curriculum, which structures children’s learning around
five domains of learning. Each domain is
essential to the child's development and offers a core
knowledge, which takes its roots in day-to-day experiences,
hands-on exploration, and authentic interactions. Further, our
curriculum emphasizes the 'shaping' of character through the
teaching of core virtues: respect, honnesty,
responsibility, openness and perseverance.
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Developing Language, Introducing Writing
/Développer la langue,
introduire l'écriture
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Both
language and writing are in the heart of our curriculum and aim
at developing verbal skills as well as introducing the
fundamentals of writing. Language uses and functions are
introduced. Children learn to speak French where the language
becomes a vector to access the national identity and culture.
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Becoming a Student, Living Together/Devenir
élève, vivre ensemble
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responsabilité |
As a first experience with school, the Maternelle
gives children the tools to adapt to a world
of people, routines and rules. It also educates them to the
concept of community and help them build their selves
through understanding of the 'social structure' and
cooperation.
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Discovering the world/Découvrir le monde
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The Maternelle
offers children opportunities to distinguish the physical
world from the living world through life cycles, natural
phenomenon, space and time, materials transformations and
man-made inventions. It gives children the intellectual
tools they need to describe,
quantify, classify and organize the reality of facts.
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Acting and
expressing emotions and thoughts with one's body/Agir
et s'exprimer avec son corps
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honnêteté |
Physical well-being is important to learning. The Maternelle
offers many venues where children will develop their gross
motor skills as well as their sense of self though outdoor
climbing, running, digging, jumping and indoor gymnastics
such as yoga. Performing arts (singing, acting, musical
theater) are emphasized in all 3 years of the program as a
way to strengthen the expression of emotions and
self-confidence.
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Perceiving,
creating,
feeling, and
creating/Percevoir,
sentir,imaginer, créer
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This domain
of learning is represented through the Arts: painting, drawing,
sculpting, acting and music. While painting and crafting provide
children with a means of self-expression, performing
arts such as music
and acting teach children the value of sustained effort
to achieve excellence and the reward of hard work. |
persévérance |
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