Montessori Activities & Materials

The Montessori classroom offers unique educational materials which children enjoy and go back to repeatedly.  These are multi sensory, sequential and self-correcting materials.  Working with these materials, children develop coordination, attention to detail, and good work habits.  The materials capture the chill’s attention, which initiates concentration and mental development.

	To the left: A student is working with the constructive triangles located in the sensorial area.
To the right: Another student is working with geometric solids.
	To the left: A student eagerly works with the colored beads located in mathematics area.

Montessori Program

In addition to foreign language, life science, history, geography, music, arts and crafts, movement education, our Montessori program is based on the following main components:

Practical Life Exercises:

The mechanisms of adaptation in Practical Life are the foundation of a Montessori environment, providing a sane and wholesome range of activities that develop control and coordination of movement, awareness of the environment, orderly thought patterns, independent work habits, and responsibility.

Sensorial Exercises:

The sensorial materials allow for individual work and repetition.  They also lay a solid foundation for mathematics, geometry, geography, botany, art and music.  Thanks to the control of error, the children acquire the habit of working independently, unafraid of making mistakes.

Language:

The language materials are outstanding in their simplicity and in the fact that they provide keys for the children to discover something that is beyond what lies on the surface.  When children come into the Montessori environment at around 3 years of age,  their spoken language is developed yet they have a boundless capacity to expand and enrich their language, and as a natural consequence, the desire to write and read.

Mathematics:

Before the children begin to work with the math materials, they are well prepared.  Practical life exercises have given them the opportunity to develop logical and sequential thought patterns.   Practical life and Sensorial materials allow the children to work with numbers 1-10 in dimensions and with math materials, they are given their numerical value.

Geography & Social Studies

With the geography materials, the child is given the facts of his physical world- that it is a sphere, that this sphere is composed of land masses and bodies of water, that these have different forms and that these forms have names.  Including land masses which are continents and waters are called oceans.

Elementary Montessori Curriculum:

Kindergarten - Sixth Grade

The curriculum is divided into math, algebra, geometry, reading, spelling, language arts, penmanship, science, social studies, health, art, music and physical education.  Each subject begins at its lowest level and is repeated each year to build upon and expand previous learning experiences.

The elementary classrooms provide many activities for growth and learning to take place.  Through a delicate balance in teaching and materials, allows for exploration and learning to the fullest potential.