Student Learning
Early Years Program
Early Learning Years Program at MBIS
For students aged 3-6
Early Years education plays a vital role in laying the foundation for lifelong learning.
MBIS Philosophy
At MBIS, our philosophy centers on student-led inquiry, encouraging children to actively engage through observation, play, questioning, investigation, and drawing conclusions. This approach enhances critical thinking, cultivates curiosity, and makes learning an engaging and enjoyable process.
Our Early Years Program Environment
By fostering confidence in their abilities, thoughts, and ideas, children develop stronger relationships with peers and improve their communication skills. Our Early Years Program creates a supportive and nurturing environment where students can deepen their understanding of the world and grow as confident, capable, and compassionate learners.
Collaborative Teaching Model
To achieve this, our program adopts a collaborative teaching model with multiple educators who carefully plan and deliver a wide range of meaningful and engaging activities. This team-based approach ensures that each child receives the attention they need to maximize their potential.
Early Years classrooms
The Early Years classrooms are set up as “Prepared Environments” that stimulate creativity and encourage exploration. Purposefully designed learning materials provide hands-on, engaging experiences that cater to the developmental needs of preschool-aged children. These activities foster concentration, inner satisfaction, and a positive attitude toward school, helping children build essential skills and habits for future success.
The MBIS Early Years Program objectives
Children between the ages of 3 and 6 are particularly receptive to learning the fundamental rules of human behavior.
Develop a positive attitude towards school.
Foster self-confidence in each child.
Assist each child in building a habit of concentration.
Cultivate a healthy curiosity for learning.
Develop initiative and persistence.
Encourage inner security and a sense of order.
Enhance sensory-motor skills through activities that utilize specially designed materials.
Develop communication and social skills.
Encourage the growth of creative intelligence and imagination.
Browse Our Early Years Specialists Lessons
The purpose of our program is to nurture foundational habits, attitudes, and skills that inspire a lifetime of creative learning.
Physical Education
Students learn about their environment by moving through space often to a rhythmic beat. This movement includes moving side-to-side, forward-and-back, and upward-and-down using a variety of pathways and in relation to objects. Students practice locomotor movements, including walking, running, hopping, skipping, jumping, leaping, galloping, and sliding, to move in general space at both fast and slow speeds. Students also practice non-locomotor movements, including bending, curling, stretching, swaying, swinging, turning, and twisting to move in personal space. Three and four year old students are also beginning to manipulate (e.g., strike, toss, kick, bounce) a wide variety of objects.
Japanese
Students enjoy learning Japanese by singing and dancing Japanese songs. They also learn about Japanese culture and traditions through a variety of activities such as making origami and crafts based on Japanese cultural events and listening to Japanese folk tales. They learn how to read, write, speak and listen in Japanese and are introduced to Hiragana.
Music
Students are exposed to the basic elements of music such as singing, rhythms, listening ( instrument identification), the concept of high and low notes, and slow, medium and fast tempos. Instruments incorporated into this class are rhythm sticks, Orff instruments (xylophones), hand bells, Boomwhackers, tambourines, and various other ethnic instruments.
Visual Arts
Early Childhood students are engaged in activities that introduce art materials and tools and teach practical skills. These become the means through which children can do creative art work. Children who do creative work are building the qualities of self-confidence and imagination; these qualities are valuable in whatever goals the children pursue.
Library
Students will learn how a library can enrich their lives. They will check-in and checkout books weekly which relate to their interests. Students will be exposed to a variety of reading materials and learn about the basic format of books. Students will experience the joy of having books read to them and in reading/looking at books independently. They will learn how books are created and about the people who create them.
