Harvest Lane is a Foreign Language Educational Program which provides a holistic approach to teaching, by considering the five basic senses (Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Touching and Tasting) as pillars for our education platform.

Harvest Lane is a fun, well thought-out, and creative educational program for children of ages 3.5 - 12 to learn and surround themselves with the English* language in a natural way.

Immersed in a multicultural environment, with Native Foreign Language teachers and proven educational activities, your child will be in a friendly and enriching environment, learning through his natural senses about the world around him and creating new things with his/her own resources.

Our class activities are divided into two main groups (Exploratory Workshops and Creative Studios) according to main developmental learning capabilities. Within these groups, a hands-on experience of the foreign language is taught through different activities in our four main programs: "5 Senses Lab", Performing Arts, Reading / Jolly Phonics and Art Studio. In each of these groups, all our activities surround Sensorial, Academic, Practical Life and Multicultural events.

*We will be providing other Languages such as Spanish, German, and French, among others.

This block of activities are aimed for children within ages 3.5 – 6.5, and involve activities which are destined for little explorers who first become aware of their natural and innate resources: their senses.

Activities within this categorical group surround:

• Arts and Crafts and Medium Exploration (Fine Motor Skills Development) –in our Art Studio;
• Role Playing (Perception, Personification and Empathy), Singing & Dancing basics (Physical and Spatial Awareness and Coordination) and Basic Musical Beats* (for sound and Auditory Exploration), - in our Performing Arts;
• Feeling & Tasting Testing corner (for sensorial awareness and exploration) - in our 5 Senses Lab
• Object-description games (vocabulary learning and enhancement), and Jolly Phonics Tool (Synthetic Phonics approach to achieve basic Reading and Writing skills) - in our Reading / Jolly Phonics

*Once a month and upon request, special Music master classes are held.

"5 Senses Lab": the objective of this course is to promote sensorial awareness and recognition of our 5 senses and therefore incorporate the language in a natural and organic way. Since sensorial learning is proven to be most effective in learning and retaining information, we use these creative and fun activities to invite children to explore and create with our 5 senses. Activities involve obtaining hands on experience with different testing trays, creating experiments and science-fair like projects. Kids not only love this, but also learn in a fun way.

Performing Arts: the objective of this course is to involve kids to develop different kinds of performing skills (whether it's basic social and communication skills or acting skills), physical and spatial awareness, musical and dancing talents. These activities involve creativity, imagination, confidence, stage-comfort, and presentation skills.

Reading / Jolly Phonics: this is fun and child centred approach to teaching literacy through synthetic phonics. With actions for each of the 42 letter sounds, the multi-sensory method is very motivating for children and teachers, who can see their students achieve. The letter sounds are split into seven specific groups and the sounds are taught in a specific order (not alphabetically). This enables children to begin building words as early as possible. Using a synthetic phonics approach, Jolly Phonics teaches children the five key skills for reading and writing.

Art Studio: the objective of this course is to introduce the aesthetics of art at different levels. Not only does it provide the resources to develop and improve art skills but also art appreciation. Ranging from more traditional art classes to more out-of-the-ordinary ones, children will not only learn about different art techniques and mediums, but also embark on different art projects with what is learned. In this art space, creativity has no limit and a new way of looking at art will always be discovered.