PreK Transitional: 3 - 4 years
Language - Children listen to and understand increasingly complex communications in the target languages. They are encouraged to use the target language with greater frequency to communicate thoughts and needs. They are encouraged to speak, read, and write in English and Chinese, and to speak in Spanish.
Math - Children count, quantify, and begin to understand relationships between quantities and their numbers, place value and base ten, spacial relationships and shapes. The development of early arithmetic skills in three languages is continued, with increasing attention to concepts.
Fine and Gross Motor Skills - Children continue their development in this area with increasingly challenging opportunities to engage in non-competitive children's sports , complex play, drawing, and writing. They continue to develop their skills at yoga.
Social Emotional Development - Continued development of their social/emotional skills, ability to recognize and manage their feelings and behavior, establish and sustain positive relationships with peers (making friends). They participate constructively in group activities. They use acquired tools of resiliency and executive functioning.
Nature Science - Children are encouraged to be scientists. They engage in scientific projects that focus on a single topic in nature for several weeks. They review literature, hypothesize, collect specimens, experiment, observe, document, conclude, and make reports and recommendations for future research projects.