Our rooms

Ages three to five, side by side in one room

Children of three, four and five work in the same room with the same guide. Each year looks different from the one before.

01
First year in the primary room
Age 3
Skills
- Learns the rhythm of a morning: arrive, choose work, put it back, join a small circle
- Pours, carries a tray and wipes a table after snack
- Works beside older children and watches what they do
- Takes a short lesson from the guide, one on one, and then tries it alone
Moving up
A child stays in the same room with the same guide. In spring the guide and the family talk about the year ahead.
02
Second year
Age 4
Skills
- Chooses longer pieces of work and comes back to them over several days
- Sets out snack for friends and clears the table afterward
- Traces sandpaper letters and counts with wooden bead chains
- Shows a younger child where a piece of work lives on the shelf
Moving up
Nothing changes on a birthday. The guide moves a child on to new work when the child is drawn to it.
03
Kindergarten year
Age 5
Skills
- Writes short sentences with a moveable alphabet and a pencil
- Works on a project of their own across several mornings
- Gives a lesson to the room on something they have learned
- Takes a job for the whole room, such as the plants or the library shelf
Moving up
In winter the guide and the family talk about what comes next, whether that is the elementary here or another school. The guide writes a note about the child's work for the next teacher.

Where to startBook a tour to see the room

Sample levels.

Every child moves at their own pace. Nothing here promises a place in the elementary.

In the room

The four areas of the shelves

The work is arranged by area, left to right, from the simplest to the hardest. A child can find a place to begin and a place to go next.

Practical life
Pouring, scrubbing, polishing and folding. Work that children see grown-ups do every day.
Sensorial
Cylinders, blocks and shapes that differ by one thing at a time, so a child can feel the difference before there is a word for it.
Language
Sand, sound games, sandpaper letters and then a moveable alphabet. Children begin with sand, sounds and letters they can trace.
Math
Counting with wooden beads and buttons, then adding and subtracting with the same beads, so each number is something a child has held.

Sit in the room and watch the work

A tour is the quickest way to see how the shelves and the morning fit together.

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