Our Curriculum
Key to Learning is a complete curriculum comprised of over 600 vibrant and varied ‘sessions’ across 12 different modules focused on developing learning abilities, but that also cover a wide range of traditional age-appropriate ‘knowledge and skills’.
This gives children the opportunity to develop, practise and fine-tune their learning abilities across a range of unique as well as traditional learning areas and popular preschool/pre-k/kinder/early years topics. There’s something for every type of learner.
Each ‘session’ is like an invitation or provocation for the children, to stimulate and develop specific areas of the brain, and which also give children the ideas and stimulation for rich and varied self-directed activities afterwards.
There are two levels to the curriculum:
CATERPILLARS
for approximately 2.5- to 4-year-olds
BUTTERFLIES
for approximately 4- to 7-year-olds
CATERPILLARS
for approximately 2.5- to 4-year-olds
BUTTERFLIES
for approximately 4- to 7-year-olds
ONE CURRICULUM, TWELVE MODULES
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SENSORY MATHEMATICS
Develops the ability to analyse the external, visual qualities of objects using sensory standards such as colour, shape and size. It also builds the foundation for the development of mental abilities.
LOGIC
Develops the ability to analyse objects and events, see their invisible sides, identify their most essential characteristics, think sequentially, draw conclusions, and classify and systematise information.
MATHEMATICS
Using visual models, children discover the language of mathematics and the concept of measurement, compare different quantities and qualities of objects, and explore the relationships more, less, equal.
STORY GRAMMAR
Develops a love of story, ownership of story language and a profound understanding of story structure by following a specific set of procedures known as ‘visual modelling’.
DEVELOPMENTAL GAMES
Develops productive imagination, symbolic literacy, language and communication skills, flexible thinking, creative problem solving, self-regulation and self-esteem.
ARTOGRAPHICS
Cultivates the essential skills required both for writing and creative artistic expression. Develops ‘art vision’ and introduces different symbolic tools, composition, rhythm and colour.
VISUAL – SPATIAL
Develops spatial awareness and the ability to ‘read’ maps. Children look at objects in space and use symbols to represent what they and others see through visual models – maps, schemes and plans.
CREATIVE MODELLING
Through shared activity, children discover symmetry and pattern by manipulating geometric shapes to create artistic compositions of the world around them. Develops co-operative and social skills.
CONSTRUCTION
Develops mathematical and goal-directed behaviour. Children analyse the structure of objects, plan, explain their plans and execute them using wooden modular building blocks.
EXPLORATION
Through games, stories and simple yet powerful experiments, children discover important scientific concepts – states of matter, different qualities of substances and transformations.
EXPRESSIVE MOVEMENT
Develops emotional intelligence, non-verbal communication skills, creativity and productive imagination through body movement, gestures, facial expressions and music.
YOU – ME – WORLD
Using symbols and visual models, children learn about themselves as physical, emotional and social beings, and about the natural and material world – about living things and inanimate objects.