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Preschool

A safe and welcoming place where the little ones live a personalized and unforgettable experience, which will enhance their strengths so that they can reach their best version.

In Preschool, our students learn by freely exploring the world around them, attending to their interests and needs.

Children develop their skills in an experiential and meaningful way:

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Emotional

Social

Cognitive

Motor

Linguistic

Artistic

MONTESSORI PROGRAM

The Montessori Preschool program is an educational innovation that meets the needs of our preschool students.

The Montessori program integrates ages between 3 and 6 years old into “Houses”, small multi- age communities with up to 32 students and their three teachers. Each house is equipped with scientifically designed materials in a prepared environment.

With the Montessori program, the students develop their abilities, skills, and virtues ​​in a secure structured environment that allows them to explore freely with concrete materials and interact with children of different ages within their same development stage.

AMI Certification

Guides: We have teachers certified by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI), founded by Maria Montessori.

Houses and concrete materiales: They are faithful and aligned with the Montessori method, ensuring the correct implementation and teaching of the program.

Five Montessori Learning Areas

Practical Life:

Develop life skills and promote independence.

Sensorial:

Refine the senses and help children understand and classify their environment.

Language:

Develop communication skills and language comprehension.

Math:

Introduce mathematical concepts in a concrete real-world manner.

Cultural:

Broaden the child’s knowledge about the world and their environment.

Three fundamental aspects enrich the Montessori environment:

social

SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT:

a group of children of different ages.

physical

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT:

a tidy and stimulating environment  adapted to the child.

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HUMAN ENVIRONMENT:

community made up of children and adults.

Our Spaces

We have a variety of spaces designed to favor personalized growth for our students. Every detail is designed to motivate students, promote critical thinking and develop creativity in an atmosphere of care, joy and trust.

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Advanced English Program

Our students learn English as they do with their native language, naturally by listening to it every day.

Starting at age three, our students have a 70% immersion in English through all the programmed and proposed activities.

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Virtues, Pastoral and Spiritual Formation

Three-year-olds and up are exposed to content, attitudes, values, ​​and virtues that respond to our formative model. We implement this starting in the Nursery to establish essential foundations of our Integral Formation.

Good Sheperd

Our students get to know Jesus, the Good Shepherd, in a prepared environment called the Atrium.

COBU

Meaning “Good Heart,” this is a virtues and socio-emotional education program for preschool-aged children. We develop strategies and tools that promote socio-emotional learning for our students, their families, and the educational community.

We aim for our children to feel respected and valued for who they are and learn to build positive relationships with others.