|
|
Primary Curriculum
|
Our beautiful, spacious and carefully thought through design and layout of each classroom invite natural exploration. Each classroom is divided into several logical areas by low open shelves on which the children discover developmentally appropriate learning activities. Each classroom has the following areas; Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Math, Art, Music, Geography and Science. A description of each area, accompanied by a photograph taken in one of our classrooms, follows. |
| Sensorial
.jpg)
The Sensorial materials isolate each unique sense. The child is able to define and categorize objects by color, sound, texture, smell, weight and size, which prepares for the abstract concepts of language, math and science. |
| Mathematics
Concrete materials build upon each other to give the child a breadth and depth of mathematical concept including quantity, numerals, the decimal system, and four operations. |
| Botany
 | The world is divided into living and non-living things, which the child classifies. In this way the child can bring order into his/her world. The children learn the names of plant parts and species. They also grow plants of their own. |
| Practical Life
The practical life activities are the foundation of the child's development of concentration, motor coordination and self-esteem. through these works the child learns the work cycle, choose, do, replace and choose again. Once this skill is mastered the child is free to take on anything in the classroon. Practical life is truly the basis for becoming. |
| Art
 Real works of art, hung at a child's eye level, frequently changed, coupled with a variety of creative mediums with which to explore form the foundation of the Montessori art program. |
| | | Geography
Materials provide the child the opportunity to classify the earth into continents, countries, states and land formations, both presently and historically. They learn what the earth consists of and what to do to keep it environmentally healthy. |
| Language
Montessori presents reading through writingFirst the child learns to draw shapes, from shapes the child begins to write letters, the letters have sounds and the sounds blend to become words. The child's explosion into writing naturally preceeds the explosion into reading by several months. |
|
|
|
|
