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When your child shows readiness to learn a new skill, our teachers give the appropriate lesson to turn their spark of curiosity into a blazing fire of learning awesomeness. Our curriculum is flexible, allowing students to move through it at the appropriate pace for their capabilities. It neither holds students back, nor leaves them behind, yet always provides the right amount of challenge.

AMPreschool Toddler Program

Our Toddler classrooms are available to children 17 months to 33 months old. As a student nears 2.9 years old they will be eligible to “age up” into our Primary classroom so that their placement within our school reflects their developmental needs. Students will only move up to our Primary classrooms if they show emotional and developmental readiness for our Primary classroom’s curriculum and atmosphere. This is a group decision made by both the school and the family.

Toddler Curriculum

Primary Level curriculum (3-6 years Olds)

Language

MATHEMATICS

SCIENCE

GEOGRAPHY

LIFE AND SOCIAL SKILLS

SENSORIAL

After School Enrichment and Programs

Our after school enrichment programs are specifically designed to target specific skills and introduce new ones beyond the scope of our regular curriculum.

Foreign Language Immersion

Language Intensive

Art

  • Toddler Curriculum

    The toddler years are a time of exploration and curiosity. It is when children use their bodies, senses, and emerging problem-solving skills to make sense of their world. UMA’s Toddler classrooms are set up so that our young students have the freedom to explore and develop their sense of self and independence. We create an environment that both teaches and encourages autonomy. Our loving teachers make our students feel safe and loved while they learn language skills, develop their physical and motor skills, refine their senses and perceptions, and deepen their emotional intelligence. They will participate in both group and individualized lessons along to prepare them for the routine of the Primary level. We have a variety of schedules available to Toddlers. Refer to our application for further details.

  • Toddler Curriculum

    The toddler years are a time of exploration and curiosity. It is when children use their bodies, senses, and emerging problem-solving skills to make sense of their world. UMA’s Toddler classrooms are set up so that our young students have the freedom to explore and develop their sense of self and independence. We create an environment that both teaches and encourages autonomy. Our loving teachers make our students feel safe and loved while they learn language skills, develop their physical and motor skills, refine their senses and perceptions, and deepen their emotional intelligence. They will participate in both group and individualized lessons along to prepare them for the routine of the Primary level. We have a variety of schedules available to Toddlers. Refer to our application for further details.

  • Toddler Curriculum

    The toddler years are a time of exploration and curiosity. It is when children use their bodies, senses, and emerging problem-solving skills to make sense of their world. UMA’s Toddler classrooms are set up so that our young students have the freedom to explore and develop their sense of self and independence. We create an environment that both teaches and encourages autonomy. Our loving teachers make our students feel safe and loved while they learn language skills, develop their physical and motor skills, refine their senses and perceptions, and deepen their emotional intelligence. They will participate in both group and individualized lessons along to prepare them for the routine of the Primary level. We have a variety of schedules available to Toddlers. Refer to our application for further details.

  • Sample Summer Enrich

    • Express thoughts in detailed sentences with a sense of chronological order.
    • Consistently build and read phonetic 3 letter words.
    • Acquire mastery of at least 100 new high-frequency words.
    • Begin learning blends and reading phonetic words with blends.
    • Complete reading of Bob Book Readers, Set 1.
    • Begin/complete Bob Book Readers Set 2.
    • Increase vocabulary and worldly knowledge through focused studies.
    • Learn grammar word functions: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs.
    • Develop handwriting: correct letter formation and placement.
    • Write short phrases, sentences, and stories.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • Sample Summer Enrich

    • Express thoughts in detailed sentences with a sense of chronological order.
    • Consistently build and read phonetic 3 letter words.
    • Acquire mastery of at least 100 new high-frequency words.
    • Begin learning blends and reading phonetic words with blends.
    • Complete reading of Bob Book Readers, Set 1.
    • Begin/complete Bob Book Readers Set 2.
    • Increase vocabulary and worldly knowledge through focused studies.
    • Learn grammar word functions: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs.
    • Develop handwriting: correct letter formation and placement.
    • Write short phrases, sentences, and stories.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • Sample Summer Enrich

    • Express thoughts in detailed sentences with a sense of chronological order.
    • Consistently build and read phonetic 3 letter words.
    • Acquire mastery of at least 100 new high-frequency words.
    • Begin learning blends and reading phonetic words with blends.
    • Complete reading of Bob Book Readers, Set 1.
    • Begin/complete Bob Book Readers Set 2.
    • Increase vocabulary and worldly knowledge through focused studies.
    • Learn grammar word functions: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs.
    • Develop handwriting: correct letter formation and placement.
    • Write short phrases, sentences, and stories.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • Language

    • Gain an increased vocabulary through Nomenclature Cards
    • Speak in simple sentences with some detail
    • Learn to express and care for their personal needs
    • Pre-reading Activities:
    • Picture Story sequencing Matching Go-Together Objects
      • - Matching Opposite Cards
      • - Matching Go-Together Objects
      • - Rhyming Card Matching
      • - Oral Storytelling
    • Learn the initial sounds of letters in the following clusters:
      • (m, a, s, t) (c, r, u, b) (d, h, o, p) (l, e, g, k,) (f, i, n ,v,) (j, q, w, y, z).
    • Trace letter materials and create letters in a sand tray
    • Trace or write simple words and phrases
    • Begin Primary Phonics series
    • Acquire mastery of at least 25 high frequency words
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • Language

    • Express thoughts in detailed sentences with a sense of chronological order.
    • Consistently build and read phonetic 3 letter words.
    • Read short sentences- The red hat. My pig is in the mud.
    • Acquire mastery of at least 100 new high-frequency words.
    • Begin learning blends and reading phonetic words with blends.
    • Continue Primary Phonics Readers- Integrating Blends
    • Increase vocabulary and worldly knowledge through focused studies.
    • Learn grammar word functions: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs.
    • Develop handwriting: correct letter formation and placement.
    • Write short phrases, sentences, and stories.
    • Tell short stories with some details.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • Language

    • Master 16 common digraphs: ee, qu, ai, er, ar, or, th, ie, sh, oa, oo, ou, oy, ch, au, ue
    • Acquire mastery of at least 200 new high-frequency words.
    • Complete Primary Phonics Reader Series
    • Begin chapter books.
    • Fluidly read leveled readers and answer reading comprehension questions.
    • Learn grammar word functions: Conjunctions and Prepositions.
    • Analyze sentences for subject, predicate and word functions.
    • Refine writing skills: word placement, spacing and correct grammar.
    • Write complex words, sentences and long stories.
    • Complete self-directed writing projects.
    • Master cursive writing
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • MATHEMATICS

    • Work with patterns and sequencing
    • Understand bigger/smaller and more/less concepts
    • Learn the days of the week and time concepts: yesterday, today, tomorrow, day, and night
    • Recognize and learn the names & quantities for numerals 1-20
    • Master counting 0-20 aloud and arranging numeral cards
    • Learn Odd/Even concept in 1-10
    • Understand the place value for units and tens
    • Build and read numbers up to 2 digits with math materials
    • Complete static addition and subtraction equations up to two digits
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • MATHEMATICS

    • Understand the number of days in a year and a month
    • Basic time concepts: hours, minutes, hours in a day and night.
    • Telling time: on the hour, quarter after, half past, and quarter till.
    • Recognize and learn the names & quantities for numerals 1-100.
    • Complete addition and subtraction static equations up to 3-digits.
    • Complete dynamic addition and subtraction equations up to 3-digits.li>
    • Learn simple multiplication and division concepts.
    • Build and read numbers up to 4 digits with math materials.
    • Complete the 100-Board
    • Master counting linearly 0-300.
    • Master counting linearly 0-300.
    • Interpret and create simple graphs, pie charts and Venn diagrams.
    • Recognize, count, and work with American money in simple configurations.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • MATHEMATICS

    • Count and make change with American money in complex configurations.
    • Read a digital and analogue clock. Add and subtract time.
    • Master dynamic and static addition and subtraction up to 4 digits.
    • Master static and dynamic multiplication up to 2 digits
    • Complete both static and dynamic division equations up to 4 digits
    • Read, interpret and complete 2-3 step word problems.
    • Master linear counting up to 1000.
    • Comprehension of numbers squared and cubed concepts.
    • Apply math concepts to real word problems.
    • Read, interpret, and graph complex data.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • SCIENCE

    • Identify the 5 types of Vertebrates and common animals in each group.
    • Learn general body parts of animals and humans:
    • -- head, torso, neck, feet, arms, legs, etc.
    • Identify major parts of a plant, tree, and flower:
    • -- stem, bud, leaf, petals, roots, etc
    • Sort objects into scientific categories:
    • -- hot/cold, living/nonliving, magnetic/non-magnetic, land/air/water, animals/plants.
    • Gain basic understanding of the seasons.
    • Learn common weather phenomenons.
    • Learn about of Metamorphosis: Learn the life cycle of a butterfly and frog.
    • Understand common animal life cycles.
    • Acquire basic understanding of evaporation.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • SCIENCE

    • Refine knowledge of the living kingdom: vertebrates/invertebrates and the categories of plants: trees, flowers, vines, etc.
    • Acquire basic understanding of the water cycle.
    • Express complex knowledge of the human body: bones and major organs.
    • Identify the common varieties of North American leaves and plants.
    • Understand and verbalize the 5 classes of vertebrates identifying traits:
    • Explain the major animal classes life cycles.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • SCIENCE

    • Complete independent scientific study projects based on interests.
    • Create nature journal based on outside observations.
    • Complete Human Body segment:
    • -- Identify and label the bones in the human skeleton.
    • -- Identify and explain the function of the organs in the body.
    • -- Identify and explain the function of the organs in the body.
    • Complete Space segment:
    • -- Identify and state simple facts of planets in our Solar System, black holes, stars, comets, asteroids, etc.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • GEOGRAPHY

    • Basic understanding of the planet Earth and the objects in our Solar system.
    • Learn the names and locations of Earth’s continents.
    • Create a world map.
    • Identify on a globe land and water forms.
    • Gain familiarity of land and water forms: cape/bay, isthmus/strait, island/lake, gulf/peninsula, archipelago/ system of lakes.
    • Basic understanding of different ecosystems:
    • -- rain forest, desert, swamp, ocean, rivers, lakes, mountains, the Arctic.
    • Identify the United States of America on the map.
    • Learn the city and state our students live in.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • GEOGRAPHY

    • Identify the countries of North America.
    • Create a map of North America.
    • Identify the countries of South America.
    • Create a map of South America.
    • Begin learning European countries.
    • Recognize and define land and water forms: cape/bay, isthmus/strait, island/lake, gulf/peninsula, archipelago/ system of lakes.
    • Learn the major landmarks of the world.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • GEOGRAPHY

    • Label the Oceans of the world
    • Define and Identify a variety of ecosystems of the world.
    • Locate and name major landforms on the globe:
    • -- Mountains, deserts, glaciers, peninsulas, lakes, volcanos, etc.
    • Express common knowledge facts about major countries of the world.
    • Learn basic facts of major cities around the world.
    • Know the common languages spoken in major countries.
    • Complete a Continent Study Project
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • LIFE AND SOCIAL SKILLS

    • Acquire independence and personal care skills:
    • -- Self-Care: bathroom independence, nose-blowing, hand-washing, meal independence.
    • -- Dressing: independence using snaps, Velcro®, hooks, large buttons
    • Develop manners, social skills, and ability to share.
    • -- Cleaning skills: sweeping, sponging, scrubbing, mopping, and washing.
    • -- Organize materials in a tidy manner while working.
    • -- Push in chairs, take turns, walk in a line, follow directions.
    • Grip development and dexterity improvement:
    • -- Pouring liquids and dry materials using a variety of containers.
    • -- Transfer objects with tongs, tweezer, droppers, and chopsticks.
    • -- Tearing and cutting paper.
    • -- Molding designs with putty.
    • Gain an awareness of appropriate peer interactions.
    • Draw, color, and paint simple pictures.
    • Express simple feelings: hunger, happy, sad, angry, sleepy, and bathroom feelings.
    • Learn to lace cards using a whip stitch or running stitch for later use in sewing.
    • String large beads onto dowels or stiff laces.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • LIFE AND SOCIAL SKILLS

    • Further develop independence and personal care skills
    • Hone fine motor skills; developing hand strength, finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
    • Lengthen concentration span and ability to refocus when interrupted.
    • Refine sense of order and personal responsibility.
    • Express a developed sense of body awareness.
    • Demonstrate ability to persevere through distractions.
    • Begin sewing series: sew small pillows and add buttons.
    • Draw, color, and paint pictures with details.
    • Express and identify complex feelings: excitement, worry, anticipation, anxiety, joy, wonderment, curiosity, perseverance.
    • Engage in and create complex, imaginative games with peers.
    • Problem solve and respond with resilience to any peer related challenges.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • LIFE AND SOCIAL SKILLS

    • Act as a responsible role model for their peers.
    • Give lessons to younger peers.
    • Act as a mediator between peer challenges.
    • Organize group projects and activities.
    • Lead a group of friend in a game, song, or dance.
    • Refine hand dexterity through complex art projects.
    • Complete sewing projects: simple animals with mixed materials.
    • Manage tweezing, pouring, opening and closing complicated tasks.
    • Complete small woodworking projects with nails, bolts, and washers.
    • Build complex structures with wooden blocks.
    • Complete cooking and meal preparation projects.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • SENSORIAL

    • Learn the names of 20 2D shapes
    • Recognize 3D shapes: Cube, Cylinder, Triangle Base Pyramid, and Rectangle Prism
    • Learn primary, secondary, and tertiary color names
    • Develop awareness for geometric patterns and relationships
    • Strengthen visual and tactile discrimination skills
    • Understand concepts: thicker/thinner, taller/shorter, larger/smaller
    • Arrange materials from longest to shortest
    • Sort objects small/medium/large
    • Match objects by sound
    • Match scents using Montessori scent bottles.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • SENSORIAL

    • Recognize and name at least 30 2D shapes
    • Know how to mix colors to make the secondary and tertiary colors
    • Work with geometric shapes to create abstract designs
    • Use geometric shapes to create art
    • Name and identify a variety of textures and scents
    • Refine sense of size, dimension and space
    • Create and label patterns with codes: ABABAB or 121212
    • Begin to discriminate and match volume
    • Estimate quantities
    • Discover how shapes like triangles, squares, and rectangles can join together to make other shapes.
    • Sort shades of colors from darkest to lightest
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

  • SENSORIAL

    • Use materials to draw, label and shade complex shape books
    • Complete complex, multistep art projects
    • Shade with color pencils from darkest to lightest
    • Identify things by their smell, texture, or sound
    • Arrange gradation materials from tallest/shortest, thickest/thinnest while blindfolded
    • Sort objects using only one of the senses- by touch, by smell, of by sound
    • Identify objects hidden from sight, by feeling only.
    Curriculum highlight items are not an education guarantee, but rather a goal and aspiration we have for each child's progress.

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