LAREN MONTESSORI SCHOOL CURRICULUM

In a Montessori classroom students are working on their own individual work. They work independently most often but will also work in small groups to help them develop cooperative learning skills. The work is chosen by the student with suggestions from the directress (teacher) or teaching assistants to ensure that the child works in each area of the classroom and is working at his/her level. The following are the areas and skills on which the children are working and can accomplish during their time at Laren Montessori.

RESPECT FOR OTHERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT:

As children work and move in the classroom, they are walking: slowly; around tables, chairs, and work rugs; keeping their hands to themselves so as not to hurt or disturb a friend at work. Students are learning to use materials with care, putting work back in its proper place, making sure work is left as it was found. They are speaking in an appropriate inside voice so they don’t break a friend’s concentration. Children are learning to speak to others as they would like to be spoken to. Students are learning to be a friend and to think of others and their feelings.

PRACTICAL LIFE:

This area is designed to develop attention span, concentration, self-confidence, persistence, and accuracy through accomplishing activities used in everyday life:

SENSORIAL:

Each of the Sensorial Materials isolates one defining quality such as colors, shapes, sizes (large to small, thick to thin, long to short, tall to short), sounds, textures and scents.

MATH:

Recognizing numerals 1-10, Counting sets for numerals 1-10(one to one counting), Recognizing numerals 11-19, Addition, Subtraction, Reading/understanding 2, 3, 4, digit numbers (place value), Addition/subtraction with multi digit numbers, Skip counting, Multiplication, Division, Measuring, Money, Fractions, Story problems.

GEOGRAPHY:

Globes, Land/water, The 7 continents, Countries within each continent, U.S. States, U.S. and other countries' flags, Phone number, Address, Calendar (days of the week, months of the year, the date), Time (by the hour, half past, quarter to, quarter past) Air, Land, Water, Directions, and Landforms.

SCIENCE:

Vertebrate and Invertebrate: what are they and what fits in each group; Living and Nonliving; Plant and Animal; Body parts of humans, animals, and plants; The 5 senses, Skeleton, Magnetism, The Five Food Groups, Ocean, Weather, Solar System, Trees/Flowers.

LANGUAGE:

Verbal skills, Matching, Opposites, Classification, Completing a pattern, Sequencing parts of a story, Rhyming, Initial (beginning) sounds, Ending sounds, Vowels, Short vowel word building, Building/reading a sentence, Reading a short vowel story, Consonant blends and diagraphs, Long vowel word building, Reading comprehension, Parts of speech, Alphabetical order.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION:

Lessons in the Spanish language are given in each Montessori classroom 2 days per week beginning in October. Instruction is given by Mrs. Alejandra Keefe, a Laren Montessori Directress who is from Argentina. Teachers will also place Spanish work in areas of the classroom that the children can choose to do during individual work time.

Students are taught to say things in Spanish that they are already familiar with saying in English. The children are taught basic conversational Spanish such as "Hello, how are you?", "My name is....", "I am ....years old", etc. Students also learn several sets of words to incorporate with thir learned conversational skills (colors, numbers, body parts, fruits, animals, items in the home and classroom, etc.).

FINE MOTOR SKILLS:

Pencil grasp, Pencil use and control, Coloring, Tracing letters and numerals, Printing letters and numerals in proper form on lined paper, Printing name, words, sentences and Cursive handwriting

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