About Us

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 A home away from home learning environment where children come and learn hands on using creativity and with Montessori materials. We also tutor and provide afterschool pick ups at selected local area schools.

The Montessori Curriculum offers children five key areas of study: Practical Life, Sensorial, Mathematics, Language, and Culture. Each learning area is made up of a set of Montessori materials that each teach one key knowledge area or skill. Through repetition and practice, children develop a foundational understanding of each material, and master the core competencies within each curriculum area.
 

Key Curriculum Areas

• Practical life: Independence, social skills and care for the environment

• Sensorial: Colors, shapes, textures, weights, dimension, discrimination and distinguishing between smells, taste and sound

• Mathematics: Numbers, quantities, counting, addition, subtraction, decimal system, multiplication and division

• Language: Oral language, phonics, letter formation, sentence structure, vowels and consonants, writing, reading and early literacy skills

• Culture: Geography, botany, zoology, science, history, music and art

The Five Areas of the Montessori Curriculum:
 

Practical Life

The Montessori Practical Life Curriculum incorporates exercises and activities that children observe in daily life. These activities develop children’s independence, concentration, and fine motor skills. Typical practical life activities involve transferring, food preparation, lessons in grace and courtesy, and cleaning.

Example materials and activities include:

• Spooning

• Tonging

• Threading

• Sweeping 

Sensorial

Sensorial activities teach children to refine their senses of sight, touch, sound, smell and taste so that they are able to organise sensory impressions and their understanding of the world. Through sensorial materials, children learn about similarity and difference, dimensions, colours and shapes, and distinguish between smells, taste and sound. Sensorial work also prepares children for mathematics, language and geometry by teaching children how to classify and sort.

Example materials and activities include:

• Pink Tower

• Colour Box

• Geometric Solids

• Trinomial Cube

Mathematics

The Mathematics Curriculum teaches children to understand abstract mathematical concepts and relationships through hands-on learning experiences. Children learn to count, identify and match numerals to their quantity, relate decimal quantities and symbols, and become aware of the functions of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division by using the Montessori materials.

Example materials and activities include:

• Numerals and Counters

• Hanging Bead Stair

• Teen Boards

• Hundred Board

Language

The Montessori Language Curriculum provides children with the knowledge and skills to build their vocabulary and understanding of language. The skills required for reading, writing and oral language are developed through hands-on experience using the Montessori language materials. Children learn letter sounds (phonics), letter identification and formation, how to combine sounds to make words, how to build simple sentences, and how to properly hold a pencil. Oral language skills are developed through daily social interactions, group time experiences, and lessons in grace and courtesy.

Example materials and activities include:

• Sandpaper Letters

• Moveable Alphabet

• Metal Insets

• Three Part Cards

Culture

The Culture Curriculum incorporates a wide range of subjects, including: Geography, Botany, Zoology, Science, History, Music and Art. Through explorations of culture, children develop an understanding of their community, their world, and their social responsibilities. Children learn to respond to diversity with respect, appreciate music and art, and develop awareness of sustainability.

Example materials and activities include:

• Land and Water Forms

• Continent Boxes

• Life Cycle Puzzle and Activities

• Map Cabinet

Throughout the year in a Primary Montessori classroom, children receive a multitude of lessons on what we call “Grace and Courtesy”. Grace and Courtesy lessons are essentially teaching the children what it means to be polite and how to appropriately communicate his or her feelings.

3 Pillars Of A Montessori Education

• Prepared Environment. The first pillar of Montessori education is the importance of a prepared environment. ...

• Materials. The second pillar of Montessori education is found in the unique materials used to support learning. ...

• Teacher as Guide. 

What are the 4 C's in Montessori?

critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication

These include: critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication; otherwise known as 'The Four C's. 

Critical Thinking

Montessori education encourages children to develop critical thinking skills by providing them with hands-on learning materials.

Each Montessori material is specifically designed to isolate one concept or skill, and has an inbuilt control of error, which allows the child to ‘discover’ the outcome of the material independent of an adult.
 

Collaboration

The Montessori program encourages children to develop strong social skills through interactive learning experiences and cooperative play.

This structure to the Montessori environment leads to the development of a harmonious classroom community, which creates the optimal learning environment for children.
 

Creativity

Montessori education recognizes that creativity is not a skill that is learned, so much as it evolves from a process of cognitive development. This process begins when the child is born, and develops spontaneously as the child’s intelligence becomes established over time.

Creativity is crucial in Montessori education as it is viewed as a way that children come to understand their world and construct themselves through self-expression.

The Montessori method fosters creativity by providing children with an environment that allows for freedom within boundaries.

Communication 

In Montessori, the development of communication skills is reinforced through the practical life and language program.

Through practical life lessons in grace and courtesy, children learn to be courteous and respectful of others. Every school day students practice proper greetings, such as “please” and “thank you,” and using eye contact when speaking.

The development of communications skills is also reinforced through the language curriculum, which immerses children in the world of spoken language, writing, and reading.

Montessori materials, such as the sandpaper letters, provide children with the foundations for identifying and writing the alphabet.

Language materials progress in difficulty as children begin to learn sight words and develop the visual and auditory tracking skills required for reading and writing.