Primary/1st grade

FIRST GRADE EDUCATION: 1st grade 
The elementary program offers a continuum built on the preschool experience. The environment reflects a new stage of development and offers the following:

• Presentation of the formal scientific language of zoology, botany, anthropology, geography, geology, etc., exposing the child to accurate, organized information and respecting the child's intelligence and interests. 

• The use of timelines, pictures, charts, and other visual aidsto provide a linguistic and visual overview of the first principles of each discipline. 

• Presentation of knowledge as part of a large-scale narrativethat unfolds the origins of the earth, life, human communities, and modern history, always in the context of the wholeness of life. 

• A mathematics curriculum presented with concrete materialsthat simultaneously reveal arithmetic, geometric, and algebraic correlations.

• Emphasis on open-ended research and in-depth study using primary and secondary sources (no textbooks or worksheets) as well as other materials