Growing confident learners.
From a Transitional Kindergarten through fifth grade, Lower School students develop strong academic foundations while building confidence, independence, creativity, and leadership. With each year students begin to see themselves as capable thinkers and responsible community members.
A nurturing beginning.
Our youngest classrooms blend purposeful play with intentional academic instruction.
Academic Foundations
Letter recognition, phonemic awareness, early reading readiness, number sense, patterns, shapes, and problem-solving, taught through purposeful play and direct instruction.
Arts & Creativity
Visual arts, music, movement, dramatic play, and creative expression nurture imagination and confidence from the very first year.
Social & Emotional Growth
Children practice kindness, listening, sharing, and self-regulation in a warm classroom community where every child is known and valued.
Becoming the kind of person the world needs.
Character Development
Honesty, responsibility, kindness, and ethical citizenship, guided by teachers who know them individually and older students who lead by example.
Leadership
Daily opportunities to lead, in the classroom, on the field, through student council, and in service to others.
Student Support
Teachers know every student well and differentiate instruction to meet each child's strengths and needs.
Curriculum your child will use:
English Language Arts
- •UFLI Foundations (1st and 2nd grades)
- •Secret Stories (1st and 2nd grades)
- •Writer's Workshop (TK and Kindergarten)
- •Step Up to Writing (starting in 3rd grade)
- •Handwriting Without Tears (TK and Kindergarten)
- •Writing with a Master Teacher (1st–4th grades)
Math
- •Big Ideas: California Math & You (TK and Kindergarten)
Science
- •CIJE STEM (TK and Kindergarten)
Social Studies
- •McGraw Hill History and Social Studies (TK and Kindergarten)