The approach

Activities & materials

The fundamental quality for a parent or an educator is to know how to observe.

Practical life

Coordination, concentration and independence through everyday tasks: pouring water, transferring (spoon, dried beans), dressing (buttons, laces, zips).

Peeling — a practical-life exercise

Mathematics

From the concrete to the abstract: red and blue rods, golden beads (units, tens, hundreds, thousands), matching symbols to quantities.

A mathematics activity

Sensorial life

Refining one sense at a time: cylinder blocks (sizes), fabrics (textures), sound boxes.

Sensorial material

Language

Sandpaper letters, movable alphabets, nomenclature cards.

Movable alphabet — a language activity

Science, discovering the world & culture

The life cycle of the turtle, simple experiments (floating, magnetism), artistic activities.

Science and discovery

History & geography

Stories, books, maps, posters and timelines; a programme renewed each year according to the children’s interests.

History and geography