We Grow as Giants

Toddler Program: Montessori classroom with 2-3 year old children. 7:45AM to 11:45AM.
Preschool: Montessori classrooms with 3-5 year old children. Students remain in the same class for the entire three-year cycle. 7:45AM to 2:55PM.

Curriculum

“Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.” – Maria Montessori
The Preschool Curriculum is grounded in the Montessori Method and consists of 8 strands, as shown below.

Practical Life

Real life experiences that build the foundation of future academic skills through purposeful activities, while developing independence, order, concentration, motor control and coordination, sense of responsibility, and social skills.

Practical Life

Language Arts

Oral language, pre-reading and pre-writing activities, enhancing vocabulary and exploring spoken and written language.

Language arts

Sensorial

Sensorial activities develop and refine the five senses. Children become precise observers, leading to the abstraction of ideas, logical thinking and the ability to distinguish, categorize and relate new information to what they already know. The materials also serve to expand the child’s vocabulary in a very concrete way.

Sensorial

Math

Introduction to numeration (symbols and quantities from 0 to 10), linear counting (symbols and quantities from 1 to 100), skip counting to 1000 (using bead chains), and the decimal system (units, tens, hundreds and thousands) through exchange and bank games.

Math

Social Studies

Geography consists of materials related to the children's understanding of the world around them (planet, continents, countries, culture, etc). History is also developed through the children’s world, their daily routine, days, months, seasons, telling time, and birthdays (which are well celebrated).

Social Studies

Science

Science activities allow the child to manipulate and experience materials that help them discover natural laws. Students learn science through hands-on experiences (sink and float, magnetic and non magnetic, gardening, etc), and classification activities (living and nonliving, plant-animal-mineral life cycles).

Science

K5 Child Protection

Students understand personal safety, develop skills in recognizing and responding to unsafe situations, and identifying trusted adults. The curriculum includes: naming body parts (use of correct anatomical terms),privacy (personal space), decision making, giving consent, respectful behaviors and language, recognizing emotions, empathy, self-respect, internet safety, reporting situations to trustworthy adults.

K5 Child Protection

Língua Portuguesa

Alunos de 4 e 5 anos participam das aulas de Português, o chamado “Brazilian Program”, ou simplesmente BP. Seguimos a Base Nacional Comum Curricular, dentro do campo de experiência “Escuta, Fala, Pensamento e Imaginação”.

Língua Portuguesa

Montessori VIDEO

Source: American Montessori Society