Early Years Program
Early Childhood - Kindergarten
The Early Years are devoted to play. From birth, children are ‘hands-on’ natural inquirers. This is how they learn. They explore their environment and learn about their world through playful activity as well as through relationships with peers, teachers, family, and community members. Early learning is a holistic experience that integrates socio-emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Students acquire key learning skills that are fundamental for future school success. These skills include their cognitive ability to reflect on their knowledge, conceptual understandings, and their own competency.
Soundview students spend three years in the Early Years building a strong foundation for growth and learning. They spend two years in our multi-age Early Childhood classroom for three and four-year old children. Then they move on to Kindergarten for their final year. Early Years students will:
The IB knows that young learners are intelligent, resourceful, and creative individuals who grow, develop, and learn at different rates and with different learning styles. In their earliest years, children explore their environment and learn about their world through playful activity as well as through relationships with peers, teachers, family, and community members. Early learning is a holistic experience that integrates socio-emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Read more in this excerpt from the Family Handbook.
“Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.” Fred Rogers, American television personality, 1928–2003