Our objective is to provide a well-prepared Chinese and English environment to stimulate children’s cognitive, motor, sensory, language, social and practical skills in an age-appropriate development. Our creative curriculum is integrated at every moment, from the morning your child steps into Stonebridge Daycare, we welcome him/her with warm greetings to the afternoon you pick up your child home we communicate with you about the day the children stay with us. Take diapering/toileting for example, we will interact with the children in this rare high- quality time and have them know more about themselves and build up their self- confidence. Developing a child’s self-confidence via diapering/toileting is also within our curriculum. Generally speaking, our curriculum design will use the effective elements of Montessori Method in the following six areas:
1. Cognitive activities: From the acknowledge of the simple objects, playing
puzzles, geometric shapes, primary colors to the basic mathematics to be learned before going to school, from simple to complex in an age-appropriate development.
2. Motor activities: indoor we will emphasize children’s fine motor skills via crafts and arts, outdoor we will let children enjoy playing and develop gross motor skills.
3. Sensory activity: Let the children identify sources of sounds, colors, smells by touching different objects, listening to different voices or collecting real objects from life; let the children experience the warmth and coldness personally, and stimulate the all-round development of senses.
4. Language activities: From simple body parts to singing children’s songs, telling stories, reading books, and learning how to communicate clearly via both Chinese and English.
5. Social Activities: We will learn to interact well with teachers and other children, learn to understand and accept the emotions of ourselves and others, and learn to express our emotional needs and how to get along well with others during all the activities.
6. Practical life activities: From understanding pots and pans, spoon and scoops to learning how to scoop, pour and cut, as well as to understand the daily food and gradually gain an independent living skills such as washing hands, wiping your nose, dressing themselves, recycling and waste, toileting all these basic life skills. The above activities are throughout every moment at Stonebridge Daycare bit by bit based on mutual trust between teachers and children/parents, and gradually adjust to meet the needs of the development of each child accordingly, By the time they graduate, they will have received a thorough grounding in physically, intellectually, and emotionally that will serve them well for life as well as the rest of their schooling and beyond. It will build a solid foundation for our little friends who will grow into a human being who can love and be loved, respect and be respected.
课程设计
我们的课程设计目标是在一个准备好的中英文环境中刺激孩子在认知，运动，感官，语言及情感和实际生活各方位全人发展。每天从早上您的孩子踏进石桥幼儿园的那一刻我们就用热情的问候来欢迎他/她的到来，一直到下午您接孩子回家，我们与您沟通孩子这一天在学校的生活与学状况，我们的课程融入在每时每刻，即使是给孩子换尿布，我们也会与孩子互动，是不可多得的高质量相处时刻，同时教孩子生活常识，鼓励孩子对自己身体具体了解，培养孩子自信心，即一个换尿布也在我们的课程设计之内。总的说得，我们的课程设计会利用蒙氏教育的有效元素表现在以下六个方面：
1．认知活动：从最简单的认识实物，玩具拼图，各种几何图形，主要颜色及到学前需掌握的基本数学，让孩子对生活环境的认识从无到有，从简到繁，适宜的发展。
2．运动活动：室内我们会强调孩子的精细动作技能，室外我们会让孩子尽情玩耍，发展大幅运动技能，两者同时发展。
3．感知活动：让孩子触摸不同物品，聆听不同声音，从生活中收集实物，让孩子亲手去体会冷暖，刺激各个感官全面发展。
4．语言活动：从简单地说自己的身体部位，到唱儿歌，讲故事，读书，从呀呀学语到清楚表达沟通，都会采用中英两种语言。
5．社交活动：能与老师及其他小朋友有很好的互动，能学习了解和接纳自己和他人的情感，在其中学会表达自己的情感需求及与人如何和睦相处。
6．实际生活活动：从认识生活中的锅碗瓢盆刀叉勺，到学会如何舀，倒和切，及了解日用食中逐步掌握自己独立生活的自理能力，如洗手，擦鼻涕，穿戴衣服，扔垃圾，上厕所这些基本生活技能，为一生所用。

以上各个方面的活动都贯穿在生活中的点点滴滴，时时刻刻，而且是建立在老师与孩子和家长彼此信任的基础上，逐步因着孩子的成长而不断调整适应，让孩子在身，心，灵各方面全人发展，让孩子长成为一个能爱人，也被人爱，尊敬人也受人尊敬的独立个体垫下坚实基础。