Our Montessori Early Years Learning Program

In our home-like environment, our children learn daily-life skills, such as how to get dressed, prepare snacks, set the table, and care for plants. They also learn appropriate social interactions, such as saying ‘please’ and ‘thank-you’, being kind and helpful, listening without interrupting, and resolving conflicts peacefully. 

Practical Life activities promote independence, and fine- and gross-motor coordination.

Example of activities:

• Pouring Water 

• Sorting Objects

• Making Orange Juice 

• Buttering Bread

• Sifting

• Washing a Table/Chair 

• Chopping Vegetables

• Folding Clothes

• Washing Hands

• Dressing and Undressing

• Setting a Table 

• Greeting People

• Coughing and Sneezing Etiquette

• Offering a Hug

A hallmark of the Montessori pedagogy, the Sensorial area offers the children a wide array of experiences where they refine their senses and learn how to describe them, helping children classify their surroundings and create order. It lays the foundation to classify, sort, and discriminate—skills necessary in building mathematical and language intelligence. 

Example of activities: 

• Sight | the properties of size, shape, volume, and color

• Touch | the properties of size, shape, volume, texture, and temperature

• Hearing | the properties of sound, including pitch and volume

• Taste | recognition of differences between tastes, salty, sweet, bitter, and sour 

• Smell | differentiation of likenesses and different aroma 

The math materials help the children develop an understanding of the key math concepts, by grasping abstract concepts in a tangible way. Our children learn to identify numerals and match them to their quantity, understand place-value and the base-10 system, and practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. With an exploratory approach, children do more than just memorize math facts; they gain a firm understanding of the meaning behind them.

Example of activities: 

• Whole number concepts and numeration from one to ten 

• Sequence and quantity of numerals from one to one hundred 

• Place value of units-tens, hundreds, and thousands 

• Concrete exploration of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division 

• Exploration of geometric shapes, time, measurement 

Our environment is rich in oral language, listening stories, poems, singing and conversations. The Language activities help children acquire vocabulary, and develop skills needed for writing and reading. Using hands-on materials, our children learn letter sounds, how to combine sounds to make words, how to build sentences, and how to use a pencil. Once these skills are acquired, our children spontaneously learn to read. 

Example of activities: 

• A various of pre-reading activities along with the Montessori sandpaper Letters will lead to reading proficiency 

• Sound of letters

• Classification 

A wide range of subjects, including history, geography, science, art, and music, are integrated in lessons in the cultural area of the curriculum. Children learn about their own community and the world around them. Discovering similarities and differences among people and places helps them develop an understanding and respect for all living things.

Example of activities: 

• Globe

• Continents and oceans puzzle maps

• Country flags and landforms

• Plants and animals

• Magnets, sing and float, solar system, volcanoes