Lower School

The Lower School Program at Northern Light School is composed of grades kindergarten through four. Grades kindergarten through two have one, multiple-subject teacher; grades three and four have one mathematics and science instructor, and one head-room teacher who instructs in the subjects of language arts and written communication, social, cultural and world studies, and visual art. Each classroom has between ten and sixteen students. There are approximately between ten and sixteen students in the Lower School Program.

Curriculum

The Lower School curriculum is structured to challenge and support students from varying developmental stages and abilities, contributing to each child's unique growing and learning process. Each lower school classroom environment is stimulating and offers an interactive and engaging atmosphere that cultivates and fosters a great love for discovery and learning.

The Lower School Program's teachers and instructors understand that for young children, inquiry and hypothesis formation are essential to comprehension and mastery of concepts and skills in the earliest years of learning. Foreign language instruction begins in kindergarten and is studied through grade eight. Students take Spanish as a course, although head room teachers implement additional foreign languages, including Mandarin, French, and Sino-Tibetan Languages.

Curriculum development is a collaboration between the teachers of the Lower School Program and the school's directors. Implemented lessons offer children ideas rooted in progressive and forward-thinking concepts.

At Northern Light School, Lower School Program teachers and instructors seek to equip students in integrated classrooms with the knowledge to view their world with inquiry, to challenge injustice and inequity with grace and courage, and to impact their communities positively with confidence and compassion.