In Trilok’s classes, learning about the world goes hand in hand with learning about the self. The child’s mind and body come into dialogue with one another through meditation practice, emotional self-regulation skills, physical education, artistic exploration and a yearning for learning. Children learn to articulate their evolving understanding of the world through a palate of studious disciplines: from math, science and literacy to culture, movement, and the arts.
The Grapes at Trilok work together at the mixed levels of Pre-K and Kindergarten learners. These are the youngest of our Trilok Elementary School learners. They study the humanities, the sciences, and the arts, as described below.
MATHEMATICS
Math is naturally incorporated throughout the day, which helps children gain mastery over time and space. Examples include: weaving, music class, the independent work with Singapore workbooks, class projects, where collaboration is encouraged. Children work thoughtfully at their own speed.
LIFE SCIENCE
Life Science engages children’s imaginations and curiosity about the ways our natural world works. The Cambridge curriculum is incorporated to support independent work and class science together. Earth is studied as a home for all Life, which requires the care and nurture of all human beings. Children actively engage in a green vision, learning to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, and even to compost. Trilok garden creates seasonal opportunities, to observe the cycle of plant life, and to cultivate vegetables and fruits.
Through exploration of the senses, students engage in active experimentation, learn to think logically, make predictions, classify observations, and solve problems. As a result, they become able to recognize patterns of nature and signs and symbols of life’s processes.
LITERACY
A child is a writer from the first mark they make on paper, and our goal is to nurture this, alongside a deep enthusiasm for reading and writing. As students learn to read a picture, a facial expression, a letter, a number, word or a story, clues of literacy are decoded organically. Each child grows through skills and understandings found in literacy lessons, and their confidence follows. Teachers work to strengthen this identity of: “I CAN read. I CAN write.
Berries immerse themselves in the daily process of creating books. Through listening to stories and reading them with increasing independence, students become inspired and they learn about authors and illustrators as people who offer great gifts.
SOCIAL AND PEACE STUDIES
Social Studies invite to develop the skills to contribute to a peaceful society. Students learn citizenship skills in the classroom by making agreements, solving problems, and practicing compassion.
Children’s understanding of time and space stretch, and they delve into inquiry about their family’s roots. They begin to chart the neighborhood and the globe through their familiar pathways. Homework Assignments. (AHA!) Provides opportunity for enhanced family dialogue and connection.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
At Trilok, students gain cultural awareness, as they are exposed to a plethora of languages. They experience Spanish and English everyday, and they are exposed to Japanese, French, and others. Through the year, Spanish-speaking cultures are studied, allowing the children opportunities to experience traditions rooted in the diverse Latin Diaspora. Foreign language study involves greetings, conversational games, songs, special themes, art and academics names, shapes, colors, foods and following directions.
VISUAL ART
With classes such as weaving and technology, students engage in creative exploration, through which they expand their imaginative capabilities. As they handle paint, scissors, glue and more, they improve their motor skills, and they are introduced to great art, artists and learn art history.
PERFORMING ARTS
Each season, Trilok children study a wide range of performing arts from music and dance, to theater and circus, through Trilok Fusion Arts, and their ability to express themselves grows. They rehearse Ensemble Theater, music, and dance works each season, to show to their families, in a biannual community event.
In the process, students learn songs and rhythmic phrases, explore the intentions and contrasts of fast and slow beats, and discover their movements’ voice through instruments.
MOVEMENT AND MINDFULNESS
Body and Mind experience deep integration through various practices, which include yoga, meditation, gym, dance, and theater. Breath awareness links them all, to bridge the wellbeing of body and mind for Trilok young learners.
Children learn to identify their feelings and soothe their woes, through skills of compassion, self-regulation and convict resolution.