The Pre-Grammar Program at Co-op

NOTE TO PARENTS OF CHILDREN AGES 5 AND UNDER ONLY: Lux Christi offers a Pre-Grammar program not as a stand-alone program, but rather as a means of facilitating family unity among already-homeschooling families. While we wish we could welcome every beautiful young child to our program, we simply do not have the space for all the children who apply. Lux Christi is not like mother's-day-out or daycare-style programs in that all our parents are volunteers in their children's classes at all times, with the exception of a 30-minute break as scheduling allows. Therefore, we are not accepting applications for families whose oldest enrolled child is still in the pre-grammar age. Rest assured that if that applies to you and your family, by simply playing and reading with your children at home and implementing routines and clear expectations, your little one(s) will be ready to join us soon when the oldest is ready for first grade!

 

Lux Christi has adopted a Montessori Method approach to learning the Classical material and structure of Schola Rosa, as part of the revival of classical Catholic education. We will also employ Charlotte Mason’s ideas of virtue training and good habits coupled with beautiful, living books and art and music. Children will be outside for natural, purposeful play to explore and bask in the beauty of God's creation as well.

 

Our goal is to heartily prepare, at a developmentally appropriate level, all of your child's body, mind, and soul, for the work and learning at the grammar stage that comes quickly! We plan to play and learn, while remembering that for children this age, play IS learning!  We expect students to be able to, to the best of their abilities: use the restroom on their own and join us in learning self-control in our classes and schedule and with our materials and others. We will always reinforce the many virtues children are learning: charity, self-control, gratitude, responsibility, obedience, courtesy, attentiveness, and respect.

 

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Co-op Days are when they will practice and employ the skills they have learned first at home. Our safe and loving environment will aid you, the parent, in ensuring your child has the opportunity to meet and play with new friends and be loved and led by an adult class leader. We will have a general daily routine and schedule with clear expectations so that your child can know what
to look forward to each day. This is all meant to serve you, the parent, who is the primary educator of your children. Please keep in mind that the Pre-Grammar Program is meant to enhance your child's social awareness and to engage your child's mind and body in worthy ways, but it is not meant to enable your child to achieve mastery of reading, phonemic awareness, or writing. This is something that must be done under the parent's guidance at home—it will be reinforced and practiced at the Pre-Grammar Program. As part of your child's supply fee, parents and class leaders of Pre-Grammar students will receive The Parent Guide to the Lux Christi Pre-Grammar Program.

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NOTE: We do also offer a nursery for siblings of enrolled children (or dependents of other adult volunteers). Parents are welcome to either enroll their baby or toddler in the nursery or to carry babes-in-arms with them to their assigned duty on Co-op day. Mothers may choose to either step into the nursery to relax on the plush glider chair to nurse, or of course they may nurse anywhere that is more suitable to them. If parents wish to switch from babe-in-arm to nursery in the middle of the year, they are welcome to do so (and vice versa). The nursery is staffed by fellow parent volunteers.