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Constructivism means that our curriculum is built upon the interests and development of the children in the class rather than on a randomly selected topic.

We listen carefully for topics that appear to be piquing the interest of some children in the class, we make careful observations of the children’s development. From these two sources, each classroom teaching team develops curriculum in which children practice gathering information from a number of sources, sources which will later translate into academic disciplines, and then invite the children to synthesize the information into theory.

Preschoolers  -- synthesizing, hypothesizing? Yes!

Preschoolers are active observers of world; they are curious and anxious to make sense out of the many amazing questions that face them. The great difference between a preschooler and their older peers however, is that they are still very concrete thinkers, so their hypotheses are often very limited. Never mind -- in the preschool years, our goal is not to teach children facts and figures, but to capitalize on their innate curiosity and zest for life by helping them develop the thinking skills that set the stage for a fulfilling life.