The Sagemont School, Lower School Campus:
The Sagemont Lower School Campus provides an enriching and nurturing learning community that instills in each student the ability to think critically and to act with integrity and self-confidence. The Sagemont School seeks to develop in each student a love of learning, a strong sense of personal growth, and a sense of personal and community responsibility. Administration, faculty and students work together as a community of learners to develop and maintain these important goals. Differentiated Instruction is the cornerstone for helping each child to reach his or her potential.
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Early Childhood Program
Teachers create an environment that affords the potential for learning. We focus on projects and activities in a balanced, integrated way. The daily schedule includes a broad variety of activities that incorporate both group and individual activities. Learning centers are an integral component of our Early Childhood Program. Teachers prepare centers in conjunction with curriculum plans and add new special interest centers as needed. The program is designed to stimulate learning in social, emotional, physical, and intellectual domains. The majority of the day is spent engaged in classroom activities, specialty classes and fine motor and gross motor activities.
Early Childhood students experience language development through a variety of activities. They are provided with daily opportunities to observe how language is relevant to their lives. Our teachers incorporate storytelling, finger plays, rhymes, songs, poems, and sharing time. Letter sounds and names are incorporated into each of these activities as well.
Students are prepared for kindergarten by learning the connection between written and oral language. Developmentally appropriate reading skills are introduced in our Pre-kindergarten program utilizing the McGraw-Hill reading series.
Students learn basic pre-math concepts by engaging in multiple activities which include identifying basic shapes, counting, size comparing, sorting, sequencing numbers and matching, repeating simple patterns, number rhymes and finger plays. Math Readiness skills are enhanced with a series of activities involving counting, sequencing, patterning, sorting, comparing, matching and number rhymes in an effort to increase basic skills while challenging each individual's capacities. The Everyday Mathematics Curriculum is introduced in our Pre-kindergarten program.
Our Social Studies curriculum involves a personal focus on students. It encompasses learning about themselves, their families, community helpers and the different multicultural holidays.
Science is a valuable component of our Early Childhood Program and is incorporated through numerous opportunities for hands-on investigation, exploration and observation, as well as the measuring and mixing preparation of theme-related snacks. Our science curriculum is closely related to all our themes.
Elementary Program
The Elementary Program at The Sagemont School emphasizes meaningful instruction for each individual child. Our small class size enables teachers to discover each child's individual strengths and challenges. Teachers develop specific objectives necessary for success in each grade level. Students are encouraged to think critically and work cooperatively in a 
mutually respectful setting. Students are encouraged to always strive for their personal best. Our "hands-on / student centered" curriculum incorporates activities within all the major subject areas of Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science.
Reading
In Pre-kindergarten through Grade 5, we utilize McGraw-Hill's reading program, a curriculum that motivates students and supports teachers. Students read award-winning fiction and content-rich nonfiction. Teachers enjoy carefully sequenced instruction, multi-level resources for independent reading, five-day lesson plans and ideas for cross-curricular and multicultural enrichment. Numerous technology and assessment resources, including unique Internet Connections, provide further support. This year we will continue to instruct our students in K - 5 using the Six Traits + 1 Writing Program. The 6-trait model, written by teachers, originated in 1984 in the Beaverton, Oregon, School District.
Mathematics
Everyday Mathematics is a Pre-kindergarten through Grade 5 enriched mathematics curriculum developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. This curriculum empowers students and teachers to understand mathematical content far beyond arithmetic. Everyday Mathematics espouses high expectations and exposes students to enriched mathematical content by involving them in engaging lessons.
Science
FOSS is an elementary school science program developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science with support from the National Science Foundation. FOSS program materials are designed to meet the challenge of providing meaningful science education for all students in diverse American classrooms and to prepare them for life in the 21st century. FOSS incorporates time-honored methodologies such as hands-on inquiry and interdisciplinary projects with contemporary methodologies such as multi-sensory observation and collaborative learning groups. The development of the FOSS program was guided by recent advances in the understanding of how youngsters think and learn.
Social Studies
Emphasis is placed on cultural studies that include exposure to the beliefs, customs and traditions of their own and other cultures through the use of stories, legends, myths and fantasy. Students will investigate families at home and around the world, basic needs, personal responsibilities, physical and cultural ch
aracteristics of the environment, holidays and celebrations, personal family histories, Native American and immigrant populations and the local community.
Geography is an integral part of our social studies curriculum in Grades 1 through 5. Students are encouraged to utilize multiple resources including maps, atlases, globes and the Internet to improve their geographical awareness.
Elective Classes
All students in the Lower School Campus have classes in Art, Music, Physical Education, Science, Media, Spanish and Swimming.
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