Children playingThe very young child is developing language and vocabulary skills at a rate faster than any other time of his/her life.  Names are given for all the objects in the classroom as well as vocabulary for the characteristics they are learning through their senses.  Story reading and group songs develop listening skills and self-confidence with verbal expressions.

The pre-primary child is offered the opportunity to use his/her ever-expanding vocabulary and language in small group discussions, large group sharing, and interaction with peers.  Children follow the sequence of reading by learning individual sounds associated with the alphabet, learning each sound's relationship to others in words, and finally reading short labels.  Isolating the difficulty between phonetic spelling and the ability to print allows a young child to construct sentences and even stories with the use of the moveable alphabet.  Prepared materials for grammar and syntax are available to complement each child's individual progress.