Motia Early
Childhood Program

Our Motia Early Childhood program promotes a playful and engaging approach to learning, and fosters essential skills such as sequencing, sensory integration, eye-hand coordination, and an appreciation for the beauty of language are integrated as foundational elements of learning.

Rain or shine, every day the children enjoy unstructured playtime, awakening their senses in our expansive, lush garden. Children engage in creative activities like hauling stones and logs, digging, playing in the mud kitchen, and building forts with large logs and branches, where they observe the principles of physics in action. Children especially cherish their time in the sandpit. Throughout the year our students actively participate in all stages of gardening—from composting to sowing seeds to raking leaves and creating mud cakes!

Speech and language development is woven throughout many aspects of the day. Through fairy tales and folktales, nature stories and puppet shows, language is explored in many ways, including regional stories, rhymes and games in the mother tongue. Alliteration, repetition, rhythm and imagery are some of the elements that the children are grasping unconsciously and building on their imagination and memory.

Our curriculum draws from our own Pakistani cultural celebrations as well as universal festivals throughout the year. These celebrations are a way for the children to form a deeper bond with their cultural roots.