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San Jose, CA
Almaden Country School
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neighborhood: Almaden Valley · Telephone: (408) 997-0424 · Website: www.a-cs.org
General Approach to Learning
| Play-based | |
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Play-based with some structure |
| Predominantly teacher-led instruction | |
| Montessori | |
| Waldorf | |
| Co-op | |
| Reggio-Emilia |
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Director's Comments
From a child's perspective, our Begindergarten classroom is all about discovery, play, and friendships. From a teacher's perspective, it's all about helping the children develop those skills and attributes necessary to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. Children learn best by doing, and they do best those things that they initiate. Thus, children are given broad choices of activities within a developmentally appropriate structure. Each of these activities is designed to develop the whole child: fine and gross motor skills, socialization, personal responsibility, spatial awareness, auditory and visual processing, and reading and math readiness, to name a few.
Social Skills & Work Habits
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| Ability to listen and follow directions |
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| Ability to sit still for longer periods of time |
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| Ability to be a part of a group of children |
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| Self-sufficiency and independence |
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| Awareness of others’ feelings |
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| Cooperation with other children |
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Curriculum and Teaching Approach
| PLAY-BASED | PLAY-BASED WITH SOME STRUCTURE | MOSTLY TEACHER LED | NOT FORMALLY IN CURRICULUM | CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT | ||
| Language | Yes | |||||
| Oral language | - |
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| Nursery rhymes, poems, songs | - | - |
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| Storybook reading | - | - |
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| Emerging literacy skills | - |
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| Cognitive Development | n/a | |||||
| Math and number sense | - |
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| Time & space | - |
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| Sci. reasoning/physical world | - |
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| Music | - |
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| Visual arts | - |
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| Physical activity | - |
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| Other subjects taught | Once each week, students participate in 'musical movement,' a teacher-lead gross motor skill development class. Students develop coordination and spatial awareness through rhythmic and imaginative dance. | n/a | ||||
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Parents' Comments
Parent #1
The students have Musical Movement once each week. They love it. They dance and pretend and move their bodies all around.
They also work all year for the year-end Oral Language Faire, where the students present 20 memorized poems.
They also sing 20 minutes' worth of songs at the Winter Music Faire. Not to be missed! Bring a camera and grandparents for sure!
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