Program
Specials
Creative Movement
Children learn joyfully through movement. Creative Movement supports the development of physical skills, problem solving, social skills, manipulative and perceptual abilities and an aesthetic sensibility.
Library
Our libraries are filled with books and provide opportunities for developing literacy and encouraging a love of reading. The children visit our lending library with their class once per week. Children are fully engaged during their library visit, learning how a library works, listening to stories and borrowing books to enjoy at home. Our lending library contains a growing collection of over 4,000 titles.
The library program allows parent volunteers to spend time with their children and to help the school.
Each classroom has its own library filled with age-appropriate books for the children to enjoy during the day. Teachers read stories from the classroom library and children have the choice to enjoy books of their choosing during the day.
The library program allows parent volunteers to spend time with their children and to help the school.
Each classroom has its own library filled with age-appropriate books for the children to enjoy during the day. Teachers read stories from the classroom library and children have the choice to enjoy books of their choosing during the day.
Music
The Music Program at Episcopal is designed to teach the children the language of music through singing songs—both with and without words—chanting poems and rhythms, moving to music, listening to live and recorded music, exploring instruments and sounds and acting out stories associated with pieces or songs. The children intuitively learn to understand, and sing in, a variety of keys, tonalities and meters.
The program fosters a love of music, and, with gentle guidance from the teacher, children are encouraged to take more and more musical risks as they experience successes.
Music at Episcopal gives children the ear training required for participation in music throughout their lives. With growing aural mastery of the language of music comes the preparedness for reading, playing instruments and writing music as the children continue their education in ongoing schools. Children attend Music twice a week.
Storytelling
The storytelling program at Episcopal is designed to augment the classroom language arts activities. The program uses folktales from around the world as well as original stories and music as the basis for a wide range of literacy building experiences.
Listening skills, predicting and sequencing abilities are developed as the children participate in the stories that are shared. These stories become richer as the children act them out, giving them an understanding of story structure from the inside out. The students’ storytelling skills are enhanced when they add onto stories, create group stories and narrate their own stories for their classmates to act.
Incorporating rhythm, rhyme, humor and repetition, Storytelling engages the children and makes them an integral part of the story and the surrounding activities. The children attend Storytelling once a week.
