Children’s House

Ages 2 years 9 months to 6 years

In Children’s House, students begin to build a foundation of knowledge through exploration and purposeful work. The prepared environment of child-sized materials and furniture in each classroom is designed to encourage self-discovery and a joy of learning while strengthening fine motor skills, focus, and concentration.

Students engage in individual, hands-on lessons throughout the day, choosing materials as they work within a community of peers. Guided by their teachers in Grace and Courtesy, they learn to respect themselves and others, care for shared workspaces, communicate thoughtfully, and develop essential social skills. Within clear and consistent boundaries, children experience freedom within limits and build a strong sense of responsibility.

Lesson areas include:

  • Practical Life: Activities such as food preparation, sewing, and caring for the environment help students develop coordination, logical sequencing, and concentration while supporting their gross and fine motor development.
  • Sensorial: Through the exploration of hands-on materials, students can exercise and refine all their senses. These early experiences of classification and order are crucial in developing the mathematical mind and writing skills.
  • Language: Students are immersed in language experiences that support the progression from spoken language to writing and reading. Through a variety of lessons, writing is introduced by preparing the hand and mind, beginning with building words phonetically, which leads to creating phrases and sentences. Reading skills begin to advance as students learn to decode single words and progress toward fluent comprehension, allowing them to read with understanding and imagination.
  • Math: In the math curriculum, students learn to associate concrete quantities with number symbols by using various manipulatives. Lessons introduce place value and the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. As students work with the decimal system and the continuation of counting, they gradually develop an understanding of abstract mathematical concepts.
  • Cultural Studies: introduces students to science, geography, history, art, and music, inviting them to explore the wider world with wonder and respect.