Our Curriculum
The Montessori curriculum encompasses six areas:
Practical Life
The practical life exercise help prepare a child for writing and reading skills by developing and encouraging the following:
- Concentration
- Independence
- Order
- Small Motor Skills
- Hand Eye Coordination
Examples of practical life exercises are: dressing frames, polishing shoes, washing hands, pouring water/rice, sweeping, dusting, folding, plant care, room care, food prep, scrubbing, peeling, washing, drying, cutting and
pasting.
Sensorial
Sensorial exercises help children further their development in these areas: matching, sorting, grading, classifying, sequencing and creating order. Sensory based lessons are the foundation for later works in language and mathematics.
- Visuals – knobbed cylinders, knobless cylinders, towers, long rods, geometric solids
- Tactile – rough and smooth boards
- Auditory – sound cylinders and bells
- Olfactory – smelling cylinders
- Gustatory – tasting tray
Math
- Introduction to Numbers
- Decimal System
- Teens and Tens
- Memory Work
- Passage to Abstraction
- Fractions
Language Arts
- Vocabulary and Rhythmic Work
- Sandpaper Letters
- Moveable Alphabet
- Reading Theory
- Parts of Speech
Geography
- Puzzle Maps – North America, South America, Asia, Europe
- Sandpaper Globe
- Continent Globe
- Land, Air and Water
- Cultural Studies
Art
- Puzzle Maps – North America, South America, Asia, Europe
- Sandpaper Globe
- Continent Globe
- Land, Air and Water
- Cultural Studies