Our Curriculum ensures that a high-quality learning experience is offered to each child and that developmental outcomes meet or exceed the national standards for early childhood education.
Curricular Framework
Our Curriculum is designed around four key areas: child centered, culturally responsive, standards-based, and Montessori-inspired. These four areas drive our decisions on what is taught in our classrooms.
Child Centered
The child is at the center of every Curriculum decision made, and we put the needs of the child above all else.
Our Curriculum meets the child where they are and prioritizes all areas of child development. We integrate support for diverse and multilingual learners throughout the Curriculum to provide an equitable experience for all children.
Our Curriculum also encourages independence, collaboration, and joy in learning.
Culturally Responsive
Children thrive when the curriculum is engaging and personally reflective of their lived experiences. At Bezos Academy, we take time to get to know each child and family. Every child’s culture and strengths are identified and nurtured to promote student achievement and a sense of well-being.
Classroom staff create a sense of belonging by incorporating this information into their classroom environments through culturally rich stories and activities. Children also learn about the communities and cultures of their local region.
Standards-Based
Our Curriculum is aligned to research-based standards for student success. These standards allow us to track developmental milestones and inform individualized instruction. Frequently monitoring progress through observation of the whole child enables educators to focus on each individual child and create individualized learning plans based on each child’s needs.
Montessori-Inspired Approach
Core Montessori elements are the foundation of the Bezos Academy Curriculum. Our educators are trained in the Montessori method, and each classroom has a full set of Montessori materials. The Montessori approach allows every child to develop naturally — to learn and grow at their own pace. Our Curriculum will also borrow from other pedagogies to learn, invent, and improve our ability to support every child’s development.
In our classrooms, children follow their interests and engage in hands-on activities using Montessori materials designed to meet each child’s developmental needs using scientific methods. This enhances a child’s physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and cultural development.
Curriculum Areas
Practical Life
Practical life exercises are hands-on activities that teach specific skills — washing, scrubbing, sweeping, plant care, basic food preparation, and more. Children develop strong work habits, build their attention span, and access concentration and emotional regulation. Children gain coordination of their fine and gross motor skills while building independence in caring for themselves and the environment.
Social-Emotional Development
We facilitate developmentally appropriate social-emotional learning and support young children in expressing, understanding, and responding to feelings and emotions. Our teachers guide children to collaborate and build relationships, make friends, understand and respond to their feelings, set goals, build confidence and self-respect, and make effective and meaningful decisions.
Language
Our language activities build knowledge, skills, and concepts necessary for literacy.
Our language-rich environment supports children in developing strong literacy skills, a love of reading and writing, communication skills, and the confidence to express their own creativity. Our teachers are prepared to support multilingual children and their English language development.
Math
Math materials develop memory and abstraction of concepts. Using materials helps children learn complicated concepts by physically acting them out. This allows children to build a strong foundation in math before entering kindergarten.
Our students start with numbers 1-9 and 0, then progress to teens and tens, and advance to the decimal system. They learn basic operations, counting methods, and math facts.
Sensorial Development
Young children learn by doing. They gather information, ideas, and concepts through their senses, and they use this information to understand the world around them.
We introduce children to multiple subject matters, including geometry, botany, and geography. The hands-on approach helps to develop fine motor skills and hand strength needed for writing.
Science and Social Studies
The Science and Social Studies area of our classrooms is where the curriculum comes alive. Here children explore what the world is made of, how things work, and who they are.
Social and scientific activities communicate concepts to children through their senses. The materials follow a general to specific progression and offer just enough information to children to spark curiosity to learn further concepts.
Creative Expression
These activities support the development of fine and gross motor skills and promote creativity, imagination, and self-expression.
Children explore and experiment with child-friendly art materials and methods, such as painting, drawing, clay, tracing, and mosaics. Children also practice expressive techniques in drama, dance, music, and the visual arts, working individually, in small groups, and as a classroom.
Outdoor Environment
Nature’s calming effect helps children who need a release of energy or a peaceful place to regulate their emotions.
Every Bezos Academy has access to an outdoor environment that is prepared with purpose and care, providing a space for nature-based learning, exploration, creativity, fine and gross motor skills, joy, and imagination development.
Enrichment
Every Bezos Academy seeks to provide additional learning opportunities through local partnerships with the surrounding community that support and enrich every child’s development.
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