Kindergarten

Little Minds Blossom and Hearts Shine

Spectrum Northern Lights School’s kindergarten follows a holistic approach that focuses on the whole child and connects their development with the world and people around them. We follow an inspired curriculum taking the best of various child centric early learning pedagogies such as Waldorf, Montessori and Reggio methods.

Physical development

Cognitive development

Language and communication development

Social and emotional development

Our methodology aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills through a spiral approach, by revisiting and engaging with topics and skills in more depth at each stage.

The focus is on helping learners meet internationally established milestones for early development and to prepare learners to easily transition into Cambridge Primary, or the next stage in their education.

Curriculum Areas

A Rhythmic Year

Each year, month, week and day has its own rhythm and schedule that helps support the sense of predictability and calm in today’s busy children. Upon entering their classroom each day, a different activity and mood greets the children. Through the course of each school day, the same general rhythm is followed. This provides a strong sense of wellbeing for the children. When the young child knows what to expect, they can relax and work on the more important aspects of working and playing together imaginatively.

Music - Movement - Story Curriculum

The music - movement - story curriculum provides the basis for many aspects of learning. As the children sing together as a whole class, there is a sense of wholeness and purity to the tunes and it lives naturally in the consciousness of the small child. The fairy tales provide a multicultural experience of emotional, intellectual and physical achievements and failures. The stories offer nourishment for a child’s imagination and play as well as guidance for social interactions. They also immerse the children in articulate language experiences and a foundation of speech, sound and composition.

Play - The essence of Kindergarten

Play is real work for children. We actively provide a learning environment abundant in outdoor time and activities. Outdoor experiences of swinging, jumping, running, digging, climbing, sitting, stirring, sliding offer the needed gross motor work for the child. The unstructured play times help the children figure out for themselves, and with each other, how to cooperate and how to share. Imaginative play is especially important for allowing children to take on different characters and roles, and be able to imagine what it is like to be another person.

Finding Meaning in Practical Work

An important task for young children is learning how to use their bodies in a balanced and competent way. Meaningful work alongside caring adults helps children develop coordination and sensory learning— essential for later academic learning. Practical activities and tasks like gardening, cleaning, and cooking help lay the foundation for formal learning in reading, math, and science in the grade school. These activities promote sequencing, hand-eye coordination, eye-tracking, and number sense as children measure, count, and classify in their work and play.

Practical Arts

In the early childhood years, practical arts are embedded in the daily, weekly, and seasonal rhythms of the year. The experience of the whole process, rather than the finished product, is the reason that practical arts are incorporated into the day. Finger knitting, sewing, embroidering, wetfelting, and wood working permit the child to explore a variety of materials (eg. wool, yarn, fabric, wood, water). The children also learn to use tools.

Festivals

Festivals are a way of celebrating the rhythm of the Earth. We strive to bring a universal nature to our celebrations of festivals through their connection with the rhythms of the earth. The school community comes together in celebration and reflection. In taking time out of our regular schedules to come together as a community, gratitude and rhythm are built in ways that deeply nurtures children.

Cognitive Work

Cognitive Work is introduced to children through movement, play, stories and art. Reading and writing are brought in the curriculum in a phased manner starting with identification of the single sounds, blending of sounds, working with sight words and gradually progressing to reading and writing sentences. A love for books is brought in the children right from the early years through the story readers. Numeracy work enable children to learn through play, nature of numbers and the skills of sequencing, grouping and taking away. As the fine motor skills strengthen through practical art and purposeful work, children take slow but steady steps towards writing.

People and community

Our teachers guide and include the children in everyday tasks which bring them joy and a sense of accomplishment.We believe that children have a great deal to learn from real experiences and interacting with members of the community. Our dedication to community learning has allowed our children to experience an array of interesting interaction and learning from experts - scientists, athletes, doctors etc. Frequent trip in and around the city has also strengthened this understanding of the community.

What is unique about us?

Our curriculum is rich and diverse based on observation and study of the child. The children are exposed to a language rich environment with a lot of singing and stories, sparking imagination and creativity.

Providing for an active interaction with the world through direct experience, it enables the child to develop an understanding of everything around him in his
own terms.

The curriculum includes free creative play, movement, language, sensory experiences, rhythmic-artistic activities, a playful exploration of nature and surroundings where adults are facilitators in work processes.

Our Mixed-Age Kindergarten Programme is carefully designed to encourage a healthy rhythm of active and quieter pursuits.

Our teachers cultivate the children’s imagination, sense of wonder, and ability for sustained attention.

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