Every day at Jiyugaoka International School is filled with the youthful energy and excited voices of the children who attend our international preschool and kindergarten programs in the morning and early afternoon, and who come to learn English language in our afternoon ESL program.
Phonological awareness skills are proven to help a child excel in learning. So at our school we use the Zoo-phonics Multisensory Language Arts Program, used in learning all aspects of language arts, including vocabulary development and articulation.
Focusing on language arts, our experienced teachers who have completed Zoo-phonics' official training course, encourage children to develop their oral language and literacy. All of our children first start practice sounding and body-signaling from "a" to "z" to master phonemic awareness quickly. The use of body signals connecting to the 26 animals is a kinesthetic method which brings fun and excitement into the classroom together with rapid progress, and motivates children to learn.