Petite Ecole Internationale

A Non-profit Language Immersion Montessori School

A French Immersion
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New After-School Language Program Starting in August 2005
  • Starting at 3:15 PM
  • Open to all (not just Petite Ecole students)
  • 1-hour/day language classes
  • French - 3 days a week
  • Spanish - 2 days a week

Why Immersion?
Learning a language takes times and the more time students are exposed to comprehensible input in the language they are learning the better they will do.


Primary Curriculum
(scroll down for Pre-K Curriculum)

The objective of the Primary curriculum is to allow the child to absorb impressions through his/her senses and to acquire basic, everyday French

Math:
 

Introduction to decimal system & preparation for its understanding

 

Shapes

 

Sorting

 

Grading

 

Linear counting 1-10

 

 

Language:
 

Language acquisition: Enrichment of vocabulary,  Matching, Sequencing,

 

Preparation for writing: preparation of the hand (finger tracing, fine motor skills, left to right.

 

 

Science:

Magnetic/Non-magnetic

 

Sink/Float

 

Gardening

 

 

Culture:

 

Cultural celebrations throughout the year

 

 

Music/Art: 

Singing/Musical games

 

Work on texture

 

Painting (finger, easel, water color)

 

 

Emotional/Social:

Identify & cope with emotions

 

Sharing

 

Grace & courtesy

 

Physical readiness (potty training, balance,...)

 

Following directions

 Pre K Curriculum

The objective of the Pre K curriculum is to combine concrete material with activities to guide the child toward abstraction and to expand the child’s French vocabulary to include concepts and ideas.

Math:

Addition/Subtraction (1-9)

 

 

 

Creation of complex numbers & matching the corresponding quantities

 

Skip counting

 

Different triangles & polygons

Introduction to geometric solids

 

Initiation to reading the clock

 

 

Language:

Fluent reading of phonetic  words

 

Initiation to writing (spelling, pencil tracing, line drawing, name writing)

 

3 finger grip of pencil

 

Initiation to sounds
Initiation to phonograms
Phonetic

 

 

Geography:

World (maps)

 

Texas (maps)

 

United States (maps)

 

France (maps)

 

Land & water forms

 

 

Culture:

 

Cultural celebrations throughout the year

 

Lessons in history and sociology (cooking, costumes, basic needs of humans)

 

Passing of time (past/present/future,  timelines, calendar)

 

 

Science: 

Sink/Float

 

Magnetic/Non-Magnetic

 

Classification (Living/Non-Living, Air/Land/Water, Fish/Bird/Mammal, Vertabrate/Invertabrate,…)

 

Life-cycles

 

Botany (parts of the tree, parts of the flower, types of leaves, gardening)

 

 

Music/Art: 

Singing/Musical games

 

Painting (finger, easel, water color)

 

Collage

 

Craft

 

 

Emotional/Social:

Self reliance

 

Critical thinking

 

Decision making

 

Responsibility

 
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