This is who we are.
The Primary Day School in Bethesda, Maryland, educates boys and girls during the four most important learning years of their lives—Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade. Children are full of energy, curiosity, and potential during this magical time of life. A Primary Day education taps all three to the fullest.
What is the Phonovisual Method?
The Phonovisual Method is a phonics-based approach to teaching reading, writing, and spelling that influences the entire literacy program and is integrated throughout the curriculum. It continues to prove its value, having outlasted countless trends and changes in reading instruction.
With an understanding that the best way to appreciate the uniqueness of Primary Day is to see it in person, we are offering individual tours so you may have the opportunity to visit Primary Day!
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Wonder
“Optimization is terrific if you want to get somewhere else in the future. But it’s terrible for being where you actually are right now. When goals overtake experience, you lose the freedom to encounter your life as it happens. And when you lose that ability, you are no longer living in full. We used to optimize work so we could do everything else. Now we optimize life as though living were another job. Too many of us seem to be maxxing our…
