The three Montessori curriculum areas are featured in the classroom. These are:

Practical Life Exercises: Control of his/her body is the first step toward the child’s independence and confidence. He/she therefore learns by easy steps to dress themselves, to zip, tie bows, button, lace, to cut and paste paper, to wash a table, etc. Practical life exercises help the child learn how to learn. In these exercises he/she consistently follows through a cycle of steps, focuses attention on detail, and completes a task geared to his/her particular level of ability. What he/she learns is clearly useful at home and elsewhere and has the fascination of being part of the “real” world.

Sensorial Exercises: Accurate sense perceptions are essential to understanding and appreciating the world, as well as to any creative undertaking. Many exercises specifically help the child to isolate, compare and classify his perceptions. For example, he/she grades and match pairs of sound boxes, color tablets and testing jars, build towers and stairs of special blocks which show exact gradations of volume, width and length, traces with his/her fingers blindfolded by touch alone. Sense exercises help the child develop the confidence needed for involvement in art forms-painting, modeling in clay, collage, music.

Cultural Exercises: All children go through periods of keen sensitivity to language, mathematics, geography, music, etc. Their interest in learning is natural and intense. Since materials and guidance are always at hand, the child can work at a particular interest and satisfy his/her need to know more and more. By the end of three years, stimulated by the activities of the other children and the guidance of the teacher, his/her interests have usually widened into many areas.

Math - Geography - History - English-Reading & Writing
Music - Biology - Geometry - Dance - Spanish - Swimming