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Primaria Classroom, by Veronica, age 5
Sample Daily Schedule Academics Arts Health and Wellness Community Pedagogy School Year 2009-10 Highlights Primaria is a combined pre-K/Kindergarten program designed for 4-6 year olds, with plans to open a combined 1st & 2nd grade class in Fall 2010.
School Year Calendar 2010-11
Coming Soon!
- 7-8am optional daycare
- 8-9am gratis supervised free-play hour (included in tuition fees)
- 9am curriculum begins: arrival, greetings
- 9:15am circle
- 10am snack
- 10:15am small group lessons: reading, math, science, Spanish
- 11am science & art projects, child-driven activities, indoor-outdoor time
- 12noon lunch
- 12:30 daily specialty class (yoga, music, dance, or drama)
- 1pm PE and outdoor play
- 1:30pm storytime: introduction to children’s literature
- 2pm curriculum ends
- 2-6pm optional daycare
- project based learning approach to science, art, reading, math, etc.
- curriculum integrates children's interests with academic standards
- Spanish instruction
- music & dance taught by specialists
- daily arts activities
- diverse cultural traditions introduced
- yoga & dance taught by specialists
- emphasis on emotional and social development
- physical and health education
- nutrition
- gardening
- family school with parent involvement in and out of classroom
- family style snacks and lunches
- parent meetings featuring expert speakers
- garden school
- academic excellence
- inquiry-based science
- Reggio Emilia-inspired teaching
- Orff Schulwerk, Austrian method, child as composer of music
- Education Through Music (ETM)
- emergent language teaching approach
- integrated thematics and project based learning
School Year 2009-10 HighlightsField Trips
- Spirit of Uganda (Mondavi)
- Ballet Folklorico de Mexico (Mondavi)
- Yamato Drummers of Japan (Mondavi)
- Cashore Marionettes (Mondavi)
- Nimbus Fish Hatchery
- Center for Land Based Learning
- American River - release the salmon fish fry that the kids raised in the classroom
- more to come!
Arts
- Pence Gallery Kids' Art show and fundraiser
- Scuba Puppy and Snorkel Kittens Save the Ocean! play and songs written and performed by the children
- Ocean and yellow submarine classroom total enviroment installation built by the children with teacher assistance
- more to come!
Classroom
- Kids brainstorm together to write their own play
- Fish eggs/aquarium delivered to school for fish study
- Children plant their own individual mini-flower gardens
- Children make many of their own books
- more to come!
Science Fridays
*We investigated color mixing with fluids. We tested assumptions by using mixable and non mixable combinations. We also saw the effects of pH on color and how we could change colors by adding "clear" solutions. The magic part was that the acid level was different and it had an effect on the color.
*We made a soda geyser with cola and mentos. It shot really high!!
* We looked at buoyancy and density. The dancing raisins experiment was a hit.
*We investigated how much water was in different foods. I brought the juice in and we made juice and soup from carrots, pears, greens etc.
*We looked at surface tension and how soap affects it. We made magic swirling colors in milk with food coloring and dish-soap.
*We made invisible ink.
* We looked at polymers and made gooey green slime.
* We created our own kitchen version of slime (A different type of polymer) with glue, Borax, water and food coloring. We saw that it had different properties depending on how it was treated. If we pulled slowly it would stretch but if we pulled on it quickly it would break. It bounced, it flowed and we even made bubbles with it.
* We looked at absorptive properties of different substances---how much water things can absorb. This used even more and different types of polymers. We made instant snow.
*We had a disappearing water experiment.
* On the cool Halloween science Friday, we looked at temperature effects. We used liquid nitrogen to freeze things and see what happens. We made smoke come out of my mouth and nose with the graham crackers dipped in the liquid nitrogen. We used Dry Ice to make cool bubbles that we could hold. They crackled when they popped. We put out flames (candles) with the dry ice vapor and made solutions change color when we added dry ice to them. We poured CO2 vapor to look at gas density and made ground fog with liquid nitrogen.
*We investigated friction and heat. We compared this to really slippery things.
*We looked at static electricity and made foil shapes fly in the air with static charges.
* We investigated batteries and electricity. We made batteries with potatos, limes, lemons etc. We made a phone ringer sound off with these. Diodes lit up and we made a fan swirl.
* We used sunlight to generate electricity with solar panels.
* We looked at magnets and magnetism. Investigated what was magnetic. Made electricity with the magnets moving over a wire coil.
*We investigated bones and skeletons and looked at X-ray film and MRI's of bones, brains, guts and other innards. We looked at bones from different animals. We looked at skulls and made theories about what foods the animal ate based on it's teeth.
* We looked at worm biology and began a worm composting project. This will continue in the classroom and require care and feeding. Then we'll use the compost and castings in the garden.
Primaria Tuition Rates
Curriculum Hours 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Monday through Friday (includes gratis free-play hour from 8:00-9:00 a.m.) $10,000 for the 10-month school year, September - June.
Daycare is available for Primaria students from 7:00-9:00 a.m. and 2:00-6:00 p.m. for an additional $275/month.
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