PROGRAMS OFFERED AT PVIS
|
AGE |
CLASS
LEVEL
|
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3 years & 6 months to 4
years & 5 months |
Senior Nursery |
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4 years & 6 months to 5
years & 5 months |
Kindergarten |
|
5 years & 6 months to 6
years & 5 months |
Preparatory |
OVERVIEW OF OUR CURRICULUM
Our curriculum is arranged around key experiences in varying
areas:
 Key Experiences in Active Learning
- Exploring actively with all the senses
- Discovering relations through direct experience
- Manipulating, transforming and combining materials
- Choosing materials, activities, purposes
- Acquiring skills with tools and equipment
- Using the large muscles
- Taking care of one’s own needs
Key Experiences in Using Language
- Talking with others about personally meaningful
experiences
- Describing objects, events and relations
- Expressing feelings in words
- Having one’s own spoken language written down by an
adult and read back
- Having fun with language: rhyming, making up
stories, listening to poems and stories
- Being exposed, learning and using English as a
second language
Key Experiences in Representing Experiences and Ideas
-
 Recognizing objects by sound, touch, taste, and
smell
- Imitating actions
- Relating pictures, photographs, and models to
real places and things
- Role playing, pretending
- Making models out of clay, blocks, etc.
- Drawing and painting
Key Experiences in Developing Logical Reasoning
CLASSIFICATION
- Investigating and labeling the attributes of
things
- Noticing and describing how things are the
same and how they are different. Sorting and
matching
- Using and describing something in several
different ways
- Describing what characteristics something
does not possess or what class it does not
belong to
- Holding more than one attribute in mind at a
time. (Example: Can you find something that is
red and made of wood?)
- Distinguishing between “some” and “all”
SERIATION
-
 Comparing : Which one is bigger
(smaller), heavier (lighter), rougher
(smoother), louder (softer), harder
(softer), longer (shorter), taller
(shorter), wider (narrower), sharper
(darker), etc.
- Arranging several things in order along
some dimension and describing the relations
(the longest one, the shortest one, etc.)
NUMBER CONCEPTS
- Comparing number and amount:
more/less, same amount; more/fewer, same
number
- Comparing the number of items in two
sets by matching them up in one-to-one
correspondence. (Example: are there as
many crackers as there are children?)
- Enumerating (counting) objects, as
well as counting by rote
Key Experiences in Understanding Time and Space
SPATIAL RELATIONS
- Fitting things together and
taking them apart
- Rearranging a set of objects or
one object in space (folding,
twisting, stretching, stacking,
tying) and observing the spatial
transformations
- Observing things and places from
different spatial viewpoints
- Experiencing and describing the
positions of things in relation to
each other (e.g., in the middle, on
the side of; on, off, on top of,
over, above)
- Experiencing and describing the
direction of movement of things and
people (to, from, into, out of,
toward, away from)
- Experiencing and describing
relative distances among things and
locations (close, near, far, next
to, apart, together)
- Experiencing and representing
one’s own body : how it is
structured , what various body parts
can do
- Learning to locate things in the
classroom, school, and neighborhood
- Interpreting representations of
spatial relations in drawings and
pictures
- Distinguishing and describing
shapes
TIME
-
 Planning and completing what
one has planned
- Describing and representing
past events
- Anticipating future events
verbally and by making
appropriate preparations
- Starting and stopping an
action on signal
- Noticing, describing, and
representing the order of events
- Experiencing and describing
different rates of movement
- Using conventional time
units when talking about past
and future events (morning,
yesterday, hour, etc.)
- Comparing time periods
(short, long; new, old; young,
old; a little while, a long
time)
- Observing that clocks and
calendars are used to mark the
passage of time
- Observing seasonal changes
Key experiences adopted from High Scope Key Experiences. |
