Welcome to Kids Connect
Our Mission
Promote each child’s development and active learning through play, projects and differentiated instruction in a secure, stimulating and nurturing environment with qualified and caring teachers.
Our Vision
A learning community recognized for its innovative program and child centered approach where each one reaches for their full potential and learns in an active way, playing and interacting with others through projects and appropriate experiences in a safe and healthy environment.
Mónika Lubrano has been passionate about children’s growth, development and learning since she was thirteen years old. Her love and desire to teach students has taken her to pursue her career in Early Childhood Education and continue her studies in this area.
Mónika graduated from UNIBE with a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education. She earned a Master’s degree in English as a Second Language from New York University (NYU), where she was part of the highly selective Fulbright Scholar program. In addition, Mónika has earned two Postgraduate degrees, one in Leadership and School Innovation and the other one in Coaching, Emotional Intelligence and PNL from Universidad La Salle in Madrid, Spain.
Prior to founding Kids Connect, Mónika was co-founder and director of a preschool for five years. Mónika has more than 10 years of teaching experience, during which time she was also the founder of a successful afternoon program that supported student’s learning for more than a decade.
Mónika believes that each child has special skills and talents, and that it is the school’s role, to work closely with families to identify, encourage, and promote them. Integrating social emotional learning is key to help children reach their full potential.
Learning Methodologies
Our Programs
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Our Physical Education program provides instruction that promotes the knowledge and development of motor skills. Physical Education contributes to the growth and development in children through motor skills and coordination.
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Our psychomotor practices program develops psychomotor skills through play and movement. In addition to developing motor skills, students learn to express themselves, regulate their emotions, and socialize with their peers through this program. These lessons are facilitated by a trained instructor in our mini gym.
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Our language development program is guided by a speech therapist that provides extra support for all children ages 1 and 2. This is accomplished through intentional lessons that allow students to acquire the formation, meaning and use of words in context.
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Our reading and writing program uses the Orton-Gillingham approach to help children in Pre-Kinder and Kinder learn to read and write. During this process children develop phonemic awareness, an essential reading and writing skill where children identify and manipulate individual sounds in words and the understanding that words and syllables are made up of sequences of speech sounds.
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Our socio-emotional learning program uses the Construyo framework for children ages 3 to 5. This part of the curriculum promotes interaction between children and their families, as they engage together in activities designed to promote self-esteem, emotional intelligence, social skills and conflict resolution abilities.
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Our math program follows the Singapore Math curriculum. This curriculum focuses on problem solving and mathematical thinking, two key factors to succeed in math. Children learn a scaffolded three-step model, deliberately advancing from concrete concepts (manipulatives) to the pictorial (visual representation) and finally to the abstract (problem solving).
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Children participate in music classes each week that promote the love and joy of music. Children participate in activities through play that help them understand how sounds are produced, how to identify different musical instruments and how to create music.
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Science and Technology are an essential part of a child’s education in the 21st century. Through various projects and investigations based on our Project Based Learning methodology, children learn to think critically, problem solve, collaborate, and use different tools. In this process, children become more interested and develop critical knowledge of the environment in which they live.
Graduate's Profile
Kids Connect alumni:
- Demonstrate independence, confidence and a growth-mindset when communicating, playing and interacting with others.
- Identify, understand, name, express and regulate their emotions in an age-appropriate way.
- Communicate orally and in writing at an age-appropriate level; demonstrate an interest and love for literacy.
- Think logically, critically and creatively when solving problems and making decisions.
- Use resources and tools to find solutions to problems and to create new and original outcomes.
- Demonstrate curiosity and desire to actively explore and discover their environment.
- Socialize and interact in positive ways with others; demonstrate empathy, respect and inclusive.
- Connect their learning to various situations and needs of their environment.
- Care for, value, and show gratitude for what their social and natural environments offer.
- Follow rules, respect established norms and take responsibility for their decisions.
- Practice healthy habits that promote wellbeing for their own and others’ happiness.
- Actively participate in family and school activities; collaborate with others to achieve common goals.
- Use technology in age-appropriate appropriate ways.