The child’s age determines a “section” in which he will be admitted from the age of 2 years, these sections are called: very small section (tout petite section TPS), small section (petite section) (PS – 3/4 years), medium section (moyenne section) (ME – 4/5 years), or large section (large section) (GS – 5/6 years). The educational system allows students to develop their language skills in a multilingual way.
The five areas of learning in Maternal
1- Mobilize language in all its dimensions.
- The oral route
Dare to enter into communication
Understand and Learn
Exchange and reflect with others
Begins to reflect on language and gain phonological awareness
Acquisition and development of phonological awareness
Awakening to linguistic diversity
- The written
It is up to the Maternal to give everyone a common writing culture.
Listen to the written word and understand
Understand the function of writing
Start producing script and discover how it works
Discover the alphabetical principle
Start writing on your own
Training required before practicing cursive writing: graphic exercises
Writing tests
The first independent writing productions
2- Act, express yourself, understand through physical activity
Act in space, over time and on objects
Adapt your balance and movement to varied environments or limitations
Communicate with others through actions with an expressive or artistic purpose
Collaborate, cooperate, oppose
3- Act, express yourself, understand through artistic activities.
- Objectives and elements of progressivity.
Develop a taste for artistic practices.
Discover different forms of artistic expression.
Live and express emotions, make choices.
- Visual and plastic productions.
- To draw
Practice decorative graphics
Make plastic, flat and volume compositions
Observar, comprender y transformar imágenes
- Sound universes
Play with your voice and acquire a repertoire of children’s songs and rhymes
Explore instruments, use body tones
Refine your listening skills
- The live show
Practice some performing arts activities.
4- Build the first tools to structure your thinking
- Discover the numbers and their uses.
Construct the number to express the quantities.
Stabilize the knowledge of small numbers.
Use the number to designate a range, a position.
Develop the first knowledge and skills rigorously.
Acquire the oral sequence of word numbers.
Write the numbers. - Explore shapes, sizes, organized suites
Classify objects according to the characteristics related to their shape. Know how to name some flat shapes (square, triangle, circle or disk, rectangle) and recognize some solids (cube, pyramid, ball, cylinder).
Classify and order objects according to criteria of length, mass or capacity.
Reproduce an assembly of a model (puzzle, paving, solids assembly).
Reproduce, draw flat shapes.
Identify the organizing principle of an algorithm and continue its application.
5- Explore the world
Find your way in time and space
- Time
Stabilize the first temporary reference points
Introduce social benchmarks
Consolidate the concept of chronology
Increase awareness of the concept of duration - The space
Experience space
Represents space
Discover different environments - Explore the world of the living, objects and matter.
Discover the living world
Explore the matter
Use, create, manipulate objects
Use digital tools
A day at the Maternal
The various activities are distributed throughout the day according to the children’s attention skills. The moments of regrouping and collective work alternate with learning situations in the workshop.
- The Knowledge and Culture Center
It is a place of linguistic and cultural resources of the school (books, videos, audio cassettes, TV, computers, Internet …). It is managed by a team of documentary filmmakers. - Educational outings
To develop specific educational projects, classes will be able to leave the school to discover their surroundings: outings can be one or half day supervised by teachers and accompanied by parent volunteers.
Specialized Maternal Staff (ASEM)
In accordance with the operation of the French Maternal School, the children benefit from the services of an agent specialized in maternal, they have a profile of kindergarten teachers in the Colombian system in each class. This staff has a very important educational role with the children. They participate with the teacher in the supervision, hygiene and safety of the young students (class, snack, food, nap in a small section). They prepare and maintain the equipment for the activities and ensure its hygiene and storage. It is staff that follows a process of training in the French language, who can, under the direction of the teacher, supervise a teaching activity and be an integral part of the educational team. However, unlike the teacher, he is not responsible for teaching.
