STAGE 2 TO 3 YEARS

Planet Adventure: two magical years

Planet Adventure and Planet Magic are our classrooms for older children. Because adventure and magic undoubtedly accompany this stage in which our “elders” take small steps but achieve giant leaps.

Two amazing years in which all their previous learning blossoms, in which they are eager to show us their new skills and everything they are capable of doing “all by themselves.” A year full of words, with an unstoppable explosion of language, in which the “older” children have lots to say.

In our last year together, we took the opportunity to enjoy new ideas, dreams, and activities with the best companions: your children. Are you up for this new adventure?

Our seniors at Planet Adventure and Planet Magic

If the children at our school never cease to amaze us, the “older ones” do so constantly. They test us every day with their energy, their desire to play, and their eagerness to learn about the world around them.

That’s why our classrooms, Planet Adventure and Planet Magic, respond to these concerns with spaces where expression, movement, language, laughter, and emotions take center stage. Lots of emotions, because growing up a little bit also includes tantrums. That’s why emotional education and offering them a secure and balanced emotional model becomes even more important.

But in addition, their nature project, with its sensory garden and forest, is essential to our educational project, allowing us to enjoy our more than 1,000 square meters of outdoor space. This is because it allows our children to take responsibility for caring for the garden and enjoy a space designed for sensory stimulation.

Language awakens and accompanies all their activities. Greater control of their bodies allows them to perform more complex tasks and increases their interest in their peer group, with whom they enjoy learning and playing games together… and also learning to resolve their first conflicts.

  • We are getting started in emotional education. Naming emotions, because in order to learn how to regulate them, the first step is to identify them and also experiment with them.
  • Social and cooperative learning. The time has come to start participating in shared games, to feel part of the group, to follow small rules... to enjoy being together.
  • Imitation and symbolic play. Their greater maturity also allows them to imitate adult roles more consciously, and this is reflected in their games of role-playing and symbolization... to express what they are learning through play.
  • We learn through routines. The daily routine at school allows us to encourage our older students to become more independent and aware of everything they are capable of doing.
  • We encourage healthy habits. Because from the outset, it is beneficial to reinforce the value of taking care of our bodies and minds through nutrition, rest, and exercise.
  • We enjoy rhythm and movement. Integrating music with movement and language. Playing with musical instruments, experimenting with sounds.
  • We learn by discovering. Using spaces in which to test, observe, and discover their surroundings for themselves, keeping all intelligences in mind.
  • We are starting to take care of our vegetable garden and our plants in the sensory garden. We promote caring for and enjoying nature, observing its growth, its leaves, fruits, etc.
  • We reinforce movements and motor milestones. With neuromotor circuits and stories that promote the foundations of cognitive development, preventing difficulties in later stages.
  • We promote English as a second language. Beginning to express themselves in this language with words, songs... and increasing their understanding in the familiar environment of the classroom.

A week on the planets of 2- and 3-year-olds

Our seniors enthusiastically participate in all our activities. This stage also allows us to introduce them to new concepts, using topics that are meaningful to them and spark their interest. That is why we incorporate our activities and games into learning situations such as the circus, family, animals, seasons, art… and, of course, space. Because our mascot Hori allows us to learn about his own planet and also new environments in a familiar and experiential way.

In addition, we change our activities every year to keep our educational team’s creativity alive. Over the course of a week, we play many games and do many activities, such as:

  • Assembly, communication, and socialization, starting the day on the move, strengthening group bonds through songs, stories, poetry, theater, and communicative games, with systematic exposure to English as the language of instruction.
  • Emotional regulation and personal autonomy, with pre-social games, self-esteem, emotion management, and mindfulness, including relaxation, yoga, and breathing techniques, as well as activities to encourage independence in daily routines.
  • Psychomotor skills and well-being, through movement games that develop coordination and balance, circuits, neuromotor stories, and relaxation activities.
  • Exploration, creativity, and playful learning, workshops and sensory stimulation in different spaces, themed projects (stories, plants, friends, school, planets), and discovery, heuristic, symbolic, and corner games.
  • Extracurricular trips to nearby locations to extend learning beyond the school.