Mosaic Programs
Infant Program Overview
Low Student to Teacher Ratio
In our hope to give each infant individualized, personal care, we keep our ratios low.
Safe, Responsive, and Interactive Environment
Our infant center welcomes and values each child’s developmental phase. We provide an environment where teachers, children, and families are encouraged to interact and develop relationships. We provide daily communication logs to keep track of the child’s activities during the day. In addition, we have closed-circuit cameras recording at all times.
Fun, Engaging, and Appropriate Activities
Our curriculum offers hands-on, appropriate, and relevant activities that encompass the cognitive, language, physical, and social-emotional development of every child. Sensory exploration, finger plays, puppetry, nursery rhymes, reading books, and nature walks are just some of the daily activities we provide our infants.
Warm, Experienced, and Qualified Teachers
Our teachers assure every family the best care possible for their child. We conduct onsite screenings and regularly assess each infant’s growth and development.
Monthly Nurse Visits
Our school nurse performs monthly visits to check on the healthy practices and habits we should be aware of. The nurse gives additional in-service sessions about different health topics necessary for the infant staff to learn.
Healthy Meals
Nutritious table food is cooked on site.
Infant Creative Curriculum
The first step in providing the appropriate support for the learning process is to understand the needs and personalities of the children. Students learn best in an environment in which they feel secure; this is especially true for young children who get easily frightened by the unknown.
It is our job as educators to create a responsive environment where the child feels welcome and safe to move around, play, and be him/her/themselves. Within the Creative Curriculum, not only does the teacher serve as a role model but also a moderator for student interaction.
The Creative Curriculum places an emphasis on teachers working with parents and families for the child’s benefit. By sharing accomplishments and milestones with parents daily, we hope that parents can continue to encourage their children outside the classroom.
The Discovery Program Overview
Discovery Program Features
Mosaic’s Discovery Program introduces your child to a world of communication, sharing, learning, and exploring. Your child will be encouraged to build on their confidence and self-help. The classroom environment will help develop your child’s cognitive, emotional, social, and physical skills. The Discovery Program will prepare your child for preschool.
Communication to Increase Language Skills
Vocabulary development through repetition of words and sentences. Group sharing and reading will help strengthen conversation skills with our ABC Music & Me Program (Kindermusik).
Expanding the Mind
Our Growing with Mathematics Program guides your child to their first steps of mathematical concepts on sorting, matching, patterning, and number identification. Furthermore, to develop their knowledge of the alphabet and letter writing, we offer a variety of approaches through our Handwriting Without Tears Program.
Community
Our cooperative play environment with large and small group activities will help your child learn to share, communicate, and respect others, as well as, recognize the feelings of others and how to respond appropriately.
Physical Activities
Strengthen gross motor skills through jumping, throwing, and running with our SPARK gross motor program. Outside play includes nature walks and playground play.
Individual Expression
Pretend play and role playing are strongly encouraged. Creativity with painting, gluing, drawing, and cutting stimulates children’s imagination and self-expression in art.
Preschool Program Overview
Reading and Language
✔ Know that pictures and symbols have meanings
✔ Identify letters of the alphabet
✔ Make some letter-sound matches
✔ Begin to develop phonological awareness
✔ Answer simple questions about a story
✔ Use drawing and writing skills to relay a message
✔ Listen, understand and respond to directions
✔ Know that reading progresses from left to right and top to bottom
✔ Identify signs and labels in the surroundings
Mathematics
✔ Recognize numbers and count with understanding
✔ Use concepts that included number recognition and one-to-one correspondence
✔ Solve simple mathematical problems
✔ Beginning to understand the concept of time by following daily schedule and routines
✔ Sort, classify and compare objects
✔ Recognize shapes and structures in the surroundings
✔ Show understanding of measurement
✔ Beginning to learn addition and subtraction as they sort, classify and make a comparison of quantities
Science
✔ Learning to use senses to observe and discover surroundings
✔ Learning to use common weather-related terms
✔ Use scientific tools such as thermometers, magnets, balance scales, and magnifying glasses for observations
✔ Know the concept of night/day as well as the seasons
✔ Begin to be aware of technology and how it affects us
✔ Know the basic safety practices
Social Studies
✔ Show understanding of the similarities and differences in people
✔ Learning to understand the concept of voting as a way of making choices
✔ Beginning to understand the concept of leadership in the environment
✔ Beginning to learn & think geographically
✔ Understand that each of us belongs to a family and the differences in every family as to their culture
Fine Arts
✔ Participate in music, dance, and drama activities
✔ Describe their own creative work or of others
✔ Use creative arts as a way of expressing themselves
Physical Activities
✔ Know how to express feelings, needs, and wants
✔ Show eagerness and curiosity
✔ Begin to understand and follow rules
✔ Learning how to seek solutions to problems
✔ Displaying initiative and independence in actions
✔ Show empathy and caring for others
✔ Begin to share materials and take turns
✔ Respect the rights of self and others
✔ Develop a relationship with children and adults
✔ Participate in cooperative groups play
Montessori Program Overview
Our Vision
To serve a diverse community by creating an environment of encouragement, trust, and mutual respect for our staff and families in order to achieve consistent high-quality education and care for all children.
What Is Montessori?
Montessori emphasizes learning through all five senses, not just through listening, watching, or reading. Children at Mosaic Montessori learn at their own, individual pace and according to their own choice of activities from many possibilities. Learning is an exciting process of discovery, leading to concentration, motivation, self-discipline, and a love of learning.
Work Centers
The environment is arranged according to subject area, and children are always free to move around the room. There is no limit to how long a child can work with a piece of material. At any one time in a day all subjects–math, language, science, history, geography, art, music, etc.–are being studied at all levels.
Mixed-age Groupings in Montessori (3 to 6 year olds)
Mosaic Montessori places children ages three to six in one group, forming a community in which the older children share their knowledge with the younger ones. Our program encourages mixed-age grouping of children to provide a rich learning environment that all children are unique and develop at their own pace and according to their individual interests and abilities.
Our Montessori teachers are educated in mixed-age grouping to help ensure it is implemented with the utmost focus on the child’s development and safety. Mixed-age grouping is an effective tool in child development providing many benefits including:
1. Older children learn to be helpful, patient, tolerant, while development increased confidence in their own skills and abilities.
2. Younger children have the opportunity to learn more advanced cognitive and socialization skills from older children.
Teaching Methods: "Teach by Teaching, Not by Correcting"
The child’s efforts and work is respected as it is. The teacher, through extensive observation and record-keeping, plans individual projects to enable each child to learn what he/she needs in order to improve.
Assessment
Assessment is by portfolio and the teacher’s observation and record-keeping. The test of whether or not the system is working lies in the accomplishment and behavior of the children, their happiness, maturity, kindness, and love of learning and level of work