Primary Program "The Children's House" Ages 3 to 6 years |
The Primary classroom has an atmosphere of
calmness, order and joy, as children ages 3-6
learn together while being guided by a trained
directress. This prepared environment is child
sized, and includes uniquely designed materials
that have been carefully chosen to foster
developmental growth and individual exploration.
Each material encourages purposeful activity
that appeals to the child's tendencies toward
order, exploration, repetition and communication.
The "great work" of the first plane child is to
construct himself and his personality through his
hands, sensorially. The activities in the Primary
Program fall into four major areas: practical life,
sensorial, language and mathematics. Music, art,
science, geography, gardening, animal care,
and physical education are also a part of the
daily curriculum.
Children learn to work at a task from beginning
to end as they develop motivation, self-
discipline, independence, and a lengthening
capacity for concentration. As older students
grow in self-confidence, they have a natural
desire to take on more academic challenges and
assume leadership roles. Respect for others,
grace and courtesy develop naturally as children
grow within the Montessori environment.
Half Day: Monday-Friday 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Full Day/Kindergarten: Monday-Friday 9:00 am-
3:00 pm
Children who are 5 by Sept. 1 are in their
Kindergarten year.
All Day Montessori: Monday-Friday 7:30 am -
6:00 pm
In the Montessori preschool, five distinct areas
constitute the prepared environment:
• The practical life area offers materials which
enhance the development of task organization
and cognitive order through care of self, care of
the environment, exercises of grace and
courtesy, and coordination of physical movement.
• The sensorial area offers materials that enable
the child to order, classify and describe sensory
impressions in relation to length, width,
temperature, mass, color, pitch, etc.
• Mathematics makes use of manipulative
materials to enable the child to internalize
concepts of number, quantity, symbol,
sequence, operations and memorization of basic
facts.
• The language area includes materials created
to encourage oral language development,
written expression, reading, and the study of
grammar, and experience creative dramatics and
children’s literature. Basic skills in writing and
reading are developed through the use of
sandpaper letters, the movable alphabet and
various presentations allowing children to link
sounds and letter symbols effortlessly and to
express their thoughts through writing.
• Cultural activities expose the child to basics in
geography, history and life sciences. Music, art
and movement education are part of the
integrated cultural curriculum at Community
Montessori School.
calmness, order and joy, as children ages 3-6
learn together while being guided by a trained
directress. This prepared environment is child
sized, and includes uniquely designed materials
that have been carefully chosen to foster
developmental growth and individual exploration.
Each material encourages purposeful activity
that appeals to the child's tendencies toward
order, exploration, repetition and communication.
The "great work" of the first plane child is to
construct himself and his personality through his
hands, sensorially. The activities in the Primary
Program fall into four major areas: practical life,
sensorial, language and mathematics. Music, art,
science, geography, gardening, animal care,
and physical education are also a part of the
daily curriculum.
Children learn to work at a task from beginning
to end as they develop motivation, self-
discipline, independence, and a lengthening
capacity for concentration. As older students
grow in self-confidence, they have a natural
desire to take on more academic challenges and
assume leadership roles. Respect for others,
grace and courtesy develop naturally as children
grow within the Montessori environment.
Half Day: Monday-Friday 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Full Day/Kindergarten: Monday-Friday 9:00 am-
3:00 pm
Children who are 5 by Sept. 1 are in their
Kindergarten year.
All Day Montessori: Monday-Friday 7:30 am -
6:00 pm
In the Montessori preschool, five distinct areas
constitute the prepared environment:
• The practical life area offers materials which
enhance the development of task organization
and cognitive order through care of self, care of
the environment, exercises of grace and
courtesy, and coordination of physical movement.
• The sensorial area offers materials that enable
the child to order, classify and describe sensory
impressions in relation to length, width,
temperature, mass, color, pitch, etc.
• Mathematics makes use of manipulative
materials to enable the child to internalize
concepts of number, quantity, symbol,
sequence, operations and memorization of basic
facts.
• The language area includes materials created
to encourage oral language development,
written expression, reading, and the study of
grammar, and experience creative dramatics and
children’s literature. Basic skills in writing and
reading are developed through the use of
sandpaper letters, the movable alphabet and
various presentations allowing children to link
sounds and letter symbols effortlessly and to
express their thoughts through writing.
• Cultural activities expose the child to basics in
geography, history and life sciences. Music, art
and movement education are part of the
integrated cultural curriculum at Community
Montessori School.
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