he Montessori curriculum includes

meaningful activities in the following areas:

Practical Life

Practical Life gives the child the opportunity to care for themselves and their surroundings. They learn independence, concentration, gross and fine motor skills, and sense of order.

Sensory Motor

Sensory motor develops perception and sensory awareness. Children learn by sight, feel, taste, smell and simply experimenting.

Mathematics

Mathematical materials introduce number and quantity concepts in a concrete manner. Sensorial materials prepare them for work with the decimal system, and geometry, and establish patterns for analytical thinking. Learning numbers and counting leads to addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and geometry.

Language

Language is introduced with the use of phonetics (sounds). Children work with phonics by composing stories with the moveable alphabet letters before they can read or write. As the older child begins to sound out words, reading fluency is encouraged through lessons with functions of grammar and sentence structure.

Culture

Children learn history and geography as well as about different people and cultures from all over the world.

Physical and Social Science

Physical and Social Science is introduces the child to the concept of living and non-living things, to energy, to space and time. The Solar System is also introduced.

Art, Music and Movement

These are integrated into the work cycle with an emphasis on creative versus imitative work. Children develop their own creativity and acquire fine and gross motor skills, body awareness, balance and rhythm.