Step by step ready for school
Our pre-school program starts at the age of 4½ years. The English knowledgement finally will be proved as our classes contain only 4 pupils. So individual and intensive learning can be offered. After 1½ years the children are well prepared for the elementary school. We start with half an hour per week and increase the hours continuously up to finally 3 days per week each 90 Minutes.
It is very important for us to keep the enthusiasm with learning and to teach to be organized and concentrated. Especially at pre-school we use a lot of Montessori material.
Every lesson starts with a short kinesiology exercise (e.g. across movements), to activate both parts of the brain. Even drinking and moving within a lesson is always part of our program.
Aside from intensive English language training we offer special courses for our pre-school group, which take place once a week:
- Numberland (quantities, numbers, lengths, weights etc.)
- French
- Computer Certificate
- Weaving, crochet or knitting
- Environment – to avoid and separate rubbish
- a farm – visit of an organic farm
- strangers – how to react, the right to say NO
- fire – danger and use of fire, making a camp fire
- the solar system – visit at the planetary
- pets – How to keep them and duties, visit of a pet house
- Christmas – more than only presents, the bible story
- children of the world – how they live, what culture, food etc.
- friends – what does it mean, how to get along