The Lower School at the academy provides a vibrant and caring setting where students from Kindergarten through 5th grade are inspired to explore, develop, and thrive. Our carefully crafted curriculum highlights the value of problem-solving, teamwork, and critical thinking across diverse contexts. Our committed faculty fosters a secure and encouraging environment, enabling students to expand their intellectual horizons, embrace suitable challenges, and evolve into self-assured, skilled learners.
Real content fosters a natural love for learning and thinking. Students learn about historical events, characters, stories, fables, myths, scientific facts, and mathematical proofs. They read whole books in great depth, and learn to approach books both with motivation to learn and courage to question. This helps to sustain the best kind of conversation and elevate the tenor of our common life.
We agree with Aristotle that one becomes good only by observing and practicing right behavior. Discipline, ethics, and personal responsibility will be modeled and expected. Students will be introduced to the virtuous behavior of timeless heroes and heroines of literature and history. Moreover, the school will define a standard of behavior using Seven Pillars of Virtue (courage, courtesy, honesty, perseverance, self-government, service and responsibility).
The Founders of our country believed the purpose of education was to prepare students to become virtuous people and good citizens. In alignment with that vision, we nurture academic achievement, personal discipline, ethics, and responsibility. Students will graduate as highly literate, responsible, ethical citizens who are well-prepared to advance into any life endeavor, to inspire others, and to articulate and uphold our Nation’s founding principles.
We agree with Aristotle that one becomes good only by observing and practicing right behavior. Discipline, ethics, and personal responsibility will be modeled and expected. Students will be introduced to the virtuous behavior of timeless heroes and heroines of literature and history. Moreover, the school will define a standard of behavior using Seven Pillars of Virtue (courage, courtesy, honesty, perseverance, self-government, service and responsibility).
Lower School Curriculum
Children are curious about the natural world and the society in which they live. They have a natural love for stories, songs, and art. Our curriculum builds on these natural aptitudes and feeds this natural hunger by providing students with the information they need to be culturally literate.
Reading, Literacy, and Phonics
Children begin by learning the foundations of the English language, advance to the writing of concise and grammatically correct sentences, and finally begin to write paragraphs and essays.
Singapore Math
Singapore Math is a cohesive, deep, and focused mathematics curriculum, for Kindergarten through Seventh Grade, with the goal of developing algebraic thinking.