Nursery 4s Curriculum HOW DOES IMAGINATION AND COLOR SHAPE MY WORLD? HOW DOES OUR COMMUNITY AND GARDEN GROW? Nursery is the beginning of a child's Far Brook journey where friendship, community, understanding and love of school are fostered through a broad range of intentional and open-ended learning and play experiences. The focus of the work for our learners in Nursery 4s is to nurture the natural curiosity, wonder and joy that exists within each child. There is a focus on choice making, role playing, affecting change and stewardship of our world. Over the course of the year we center our work on concrete and wonder-filled aspects of growth and change, grounded by our two essential questions. We begin with an in-depth study of color, establishing and nurturing a classroom garden and noticing the seasonal world around us. As we move into winter, we begin to understand the process that the world goes through to adapt to this new season and we turn our focus inward to each other. We focus on our families and our community, learning about sharing a common purpose and interdependence. This is exemplified by learning about our classmates and our families, as well as the sustainment of our garden. As we move towards the spring there is a culminating gardening project, as we see the efforts of tending to our garden come to fruition. Through this connection between the concrete and the imaginative, the students grow and expand their understanding of the world around them and their ability to express this beauty in words, original art, cooperative action and stewardship. We progress from wonder to action!
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