Primary

Our Montessori Primary program offers a unique, mixed-age classroom for children 3 years to 6 years of age.

This beautifully prepared classroom guides children through an individual learning experience tailored to their individual needs, wants, and interests – focusing on the development of work habits, rather than memorization of information.  Our classrooms are founded on the philosophy that children have a natural desire to learn, and by giving them the tools they need to go deeper in their own education, children can self curate lifelong skills in concentration, independence, refining fine motor skills, and develop a natural sense of order — all of which are needed for a lifetime of control and coordination of mind and body.  Additionally, our Primary Program offers one-on-one instruction from our Montessori-trained Guides, giving a student the opportunity for a deeper understanding of a work cycle, as well as an opportunity for the teacher to understand the individual needs and strengths of a student.

Growth and development

Children in our Primary classroom use concrete materials to learn math, explore language, find spacial relationships between objects, and deepen their understanding of categorization.  By allowing the freedom of movement through our well defined curriculum, our students are discovering independence, confidence, and innovation – taking ownership of their own education!  Children leave our program with a well rounded understanding of a multitude of subjects, including:

  • Practical Life: Children will develop their sense of order, concentration, coordination, and independence through work such as the Button Frame, Metal Polishing, Table Washing, Food Preparation, Water & Grain Pouring and Sewing. Grace and Courtesy introduces the groundwork for respect of others, the child’s environment, and societal expectations.
  • Sensorial: This area provides the child with visual/spatial skills, enlarges the field of perception, develops fine motor skills, teaches critical thinking, and develops the five senses.
  • Language: Children continue to acquire language development first through the introduction of sounds, followed by writing activities, a series of reading progressions, grammar, and sentence structure.
  • Mathematics: Teaching similarities, 1-1 correspondence, quantity, cardinal, and ordinal numbers, counting, place value, decimal system, concrete concepts of all four math operations, and geometry. Children will begin with concrete math concepts, moving into more abstract ideas as the years progress.
  • Cultural: Children will learn political and physical geography and cultural awareness as well as an introduction to the sciences.