Grades 1-3
More Confidence to Try New Things and Expand Your World
Your child needs and deserves a strong, diverse academic foundation. Children also need just to be kids and have their childhood protected and nurtured. Everything we do in our lower grades at Mason Prep is designed to support both goals.
How your child develops the skills and confidence to approach learning in these early years can shape their entire academic journey. Mason Prep uses tested and trusted pedagogical tools and programs to give each child their best start.
Where Strong Foundations Take Shape
Reading & Comprehension Skills
Reading and comprehension skills are primary goals for young students. We use the SRA Open Court Reading program in grades K-2 because it is phonetically based and flexible enough to allow children with different learning styles to succeed. We then transition to the Reading Street program in grade 3 as it continues to apply strong phonetics skills and further strengthens our students’ comprehension and application skills.
A Strong Grammar Foundation
As they progress, our students are introduced to the beginnings of a strong grammar foundation through our language arts curriculum with projects and assignments that include:
- Creative writing
- Spelling
- Book talks
- Journals
- Pen Pal correspondences
The Sadlier-Oxford Math Program
The Sadlier-Oxford math program introduces new foundational skills and concepts at each grade level. Along the way, students build a deep conceptual understanding of how math works as they refine their growing critical thinking and application skills. Since we recognize and respect that students have different learning styles, this system offers students multiple ways of solving a problem so they can choose a strategy that aligns with how they learn best.
Special Areas
Academics are much more than core skills in language and math. Many of the fundamental skills students need can only be genuinely mastered as children experience the arts or play as part of a team. Each of the following has a critical role in how we educate the whole child in the early grades:
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Mason Preparatory School is committed to the education of the whole child in preparation for secondary education through the cultivation of respect, integrity, and personal responsibility within a nurturing environment that results in a productive citizen of a global community.