The Primary School
- The Lower School enrolls students from pre-kindergarten through fourth grade. These are the most formative years in a child’s life, and the lower school takes pride in offering a mastery approach to learning. Children advance quickly in a safe, wholesome, joyful, and nurturing environment with a friendly approach to structure and discipline.
- Our curriculum is age-appropriate, and children build skills in critical thinking, reasoning, research, and communication. With strong academic, moral, and social values, Al Manar International School creates a foundation that will last a lifetime.
- Lower school students learn to read with phonics, a systematic approach to the English language. Students also become skilled in reading comprehension, spelling, grammar, writing, and penmanship. Our class size enables us to teach reading in small groups and one on one. Students read aloud and also have group storytime. The key is constant practice and making reading and English fun.
- Mathematical concepts begin with spatial and logical learning. Students learn to visualize numbers, count, begin factors, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Students are also introduced to concepts such as counting money and telling time.
We use an assortment of hands-on learning materials to help aid students, including counters, patterned blocks, interlocking cubes, play money and toy clocks to help illustrate concepts. Lower school students master arithmetic including the memorization of multiplication tables, long division, fractions and introduction to algebraic and geometric concepts.
- Science is an investigative, hands-on subject in our lower school. Studies include zoology, physics, earth science, astronomy and oceanography, introduction to computers, health, and much more. Students use the vast campus for many outdoor science projects and have access to the science labs, and our middle and high school departments whose level of expertise instills passion and curiosity in our students.
- Art and music are integral to our curriculum. Our art program encourages creativity and artistic advancement through coloring, drawing, painting, shaping, modeling, and more. Our music students perform in our fall concert and spring musical, learn to read music, sing and play instruments.