LAMA Leaders Program
Children have a natural love of learning. They are innately inquisitive, drawn to things that are new and different, and do not have the fear and reservations that we have as adults. All of our programs are designed to harness this natural love of learning, while ensuring that it is directed towards the fundamentals in a creative and innovative way.
Program Highlights
- Small class sizes: 10 students with 2 teachers plus a support team.
- One-on-one learning sessions with personalized learning plans.
- A structured day focused on literacy and mathematics fundamentals.
- Catered lunch and 2 snacks, individually portioned, packaged, and labelled.
- An engaging, natural outdoor learning environment.
- Optional early drop-off from 7:30am and LAMA Late Care until 6:00pm.
The daily approach.
Our students drive the learning, and our educators facilitate the experience. Here are some highlights from our day.
Wake-Up & Morning Meeting
Our morning starts with our teachers greeting their students and welcoming them into the school, helping them to hang up their belongings and join our LAMA Wake-Up Program. Blending yoga, karate, and tai chi, this program wakes up our bodies and gets us motivated and ready for learning! It culminates in our morning meeting, where we get our story mats, place our named morning rocks in the self-regulation bucket while we talk about how we are feeling, share some stories, and then discuss the day ahead!
Outdoor Learning Block 1
This is followed by our first outdoor learning block. We practice what we preach, and show our students that learning happens everywhere! Some of our students’ outdoor learning favourites are: scavenger hunts, chalk letter writing, alphabet soup, or STEM fun with Mentos and soda. Messy, learning-forward outdoor experiments.
Literacy & Math + One-on-Ones
When we transition indoors, we have our literacy or mathematics focused in-class block. During this same time, our students start their one-on-ones with the lead teacher. This is where they work on their individualized programs, designed to fit their personal learning goals, at their own pace.
Cool Down & Hands-On Learning
Our afternoon starts with a nap or LAMA Cool Down program, which lets our little learners calm down, take in the day, reset their minds, and prepare for the afternoon’s adventure! This is followed by another outdoor learning opportunity, before we return for our hands-on learning experience. Student favourites have been creating our own habitats, personal Pinocchio dolls and mini novel studies, role-switch (where the students get to teach the teachers), and letter match.
Outdoor Social Send-Off
To end our day, before we meet our parents and go home, we have an outdoor social to recap the day’s learning.