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Our Montessori Curriculum Includes:

Language Arts
Math
Culture
Sensorial
Practical life
(See details below)

Plus enriched programs in:

Music
French
Art
Drama
Gym
Computers

Singalong at Music Time Creative Movement

CURRICULUM

Toddler Program: Ages 18 months- 30 months
Child/Teacher Ratio 1:5
Available year round

Pre-Casa Program: Ages 30 months – 36 months
Child/Teacher Ratio 1:8
Available year round

Casa Program: Ages 3 years – 6 years
Child/Teacher Ratio 1:8
Follows school year calendar (Sept. – June)
Half day & Full Day/ Extended Program

JK/SK Kindergarten: Alternate days may be accommodated with a Montessori program.

Elementary: Grade 1 - 6

The Casa Program

The Montessori curriculum consists of five subjects. These are practical life, sensorial, language, mathematics and cultural subjects. In addition extra curricular subjects and activities are added from time to time e.g. introduction to French, art, music, gym, jazz, ballet and karate. Montessori materials are designed to awaken the inner desire and channel that curiosity it a learning experience developing a child’s senses and coordinating his/her movements in preparation for reading, writing and logical thought.

1. Practical Life exercises help the child to form patterns of objects, Develop the ability to concentrate on tasks independently, coordinate eye and hand movement and good work habits through tasks such as pouring, sorting, spooning, polishing and cleaning their work area and putting away each exercise after completion. These exercises build a child’s self-esteem, self-confidence and independence with accomplishment.

2. Sensorial activities help children o differentiate between dimensions, color, the ability to smell , taste hear, feel, and see in order to better distinguish their impressions.

3. Language enriches a child’s vocabulary and enhances creative writing, reading and self-expression. A child progresses from learning the shapes and sounds of letters to reading three letter words from phonics word building puzzles to identifying objects and making words with a movable alphabets to printing words and sentences. Soon children learn non-phonetic words, read books and answer questions base on the story they have read.

4. Mathematics helps in the understanding of quantity and progresses into a rote counting, Counting by 1’s 2’;s 5;ss and 10’s, counting backwards by 1’s understanding the decimal system.

5. Cultural subjects include History, Geography and Science. It focuses on the child’s ability to understand their relationship with the world around them.

Lower Elementary -
Level I English Language

Study of Language arts is divided into four sections.
I. Reading
II. Writing
III. Grammar
IV. Listening & verbal skillsI.

I. READING

- Review of phonetic sounds
- Phonics Practice Reader, Series 2- long vowels
- Study of digraphs, Two letters representing one sound, E.g. Ph, ey in phone, key.
- Oxford reading tree series of progressive readers
- Reading aloud to other students and classmates
- Silent Reading
- Introduction to chapter books with study on content
- Introduction to book reports
- Introduction to library skillsII.

II. WRITING
Penmanship Skills:

- Printing
- Cursive writing technique

Introduction to Creative Writing:
- Personal journals
- Person word books
- Creating sentences
- Creating stories
- Creating poetry
- Letter writing, Addresses etc.
- Write and illustrate personal children’s story

Spelling:

- Spelling exercises and tests
- Introduction to dictionary skillsIII.

III. GRAMMAR

Including study of:

- Sentence structure
- Simple tense (past, present, future)
- Use of capitals
- Plurals
- Nouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Punctuation (period, question and exclamation marks)
- Possession (use of apostrophe )

IV. LISTENING & VERBAL SKILLS
Story Reading:
- Children’s ;literature
- Group work and discussion
- Student of different types of literature and illustration
- Introduction of poetry
Verbal skills:
- expressing ideas via current events, news, class discussions and debates
- verbal presentation to classmates i.e. show and tell and book reports
- vocabulary building

Lower Elementary
Level 1 Mathematics

Unit I: NUMERATION & NUMBER SKILLS
- Read and print numbers up to 9,999
- Counting by 1’s, 2’s. 5’s 10’s and 25’s beyond 100
- Counting backwards from 1000 by 1;s
- Identify place value patterns (i.e. Trading 10 units f1 ten)
- Place value patterns utilizing zero as place holder
- Ordinal numbers (numbers defining position in a series, E.g.’ first’, ‘second’, ‘third’, etc.)
- Introduction to fractions using halves thirds, quarters as a part of a whole
- Compare two proper fraction (i.e. 3/6 is the same as _)

Unit II: COMPUTATIONS
Operations:

- Review of addition tables
- Review of complex addition
- Addition fact equations (i.e. 3+2 = 2 + 3 )
- Introduction to a calculator
- Multiplication tables in concrete and abstract form
- Introduction to division from concrete to abstract
- Introduction to subtraction
Money:
- Study of money value; using 1c 5c, 10c, 25c, and $1.00 coins
Problem solving:
- Simple problem solving utilizing one operation (i.e. addition, subtraction or skip counting)
- Use of calculator in problem solving activities
- Problem solving abstractly

Unit III: MEASURMENT
Linear Measurement:
- Linear measurement using centimeter and meter
- Record the results of measurement activities in a variety of ways; (I.e. graphs, charts)
Measurement of time:
- measure of time (i.e. days, weeks, months, years, minutes, hours and days)
- reading digital and analog clocks
- reading and writing the time
Measurement of temperature:
- Use of thermometer to determine whether temperature is rising or falling
- Reading thermometer and writing temperature

Measurement of perimeter & area:
- Estimate, measure and record the distance around objects and the space occupied by squares, rectangles etc.
Capacity, volume & Mass:
- Estimate, measure and record capacity using a collection of containers

Unit IV: PATTERNING & ALGEBRA
- Recognize that patterning results from repeating an operation (i.e. addition)
- Recognize that patterning results a transition (i.e. flip, slide, and turn)

Cultural Studies

Cultural studies focuses on the study of life and the time line of life, which represents the panorama of the Earth’s History.

Geography covers a study of the solar system, the physical characteristics of the earth and its atmosphere with extensive exploration of the social and economic aspects of countries and people.

History covers the study of early man, Ancient civilizations, the story of the universe and the history of Canada

Botany covers the general and specific study of the classification of the plant kingdom and the evolution of plants

Zoology examines a cosmic view of the animal kingdom and its classification with an emphasis on how animals meet their needs

Physical Science gives children the opportunity for logical thinking, hypothesizing and discovering scientific principals as they perform experiments in energy ( light, magnetism, heat, sound, electricity and machines) and matter.

French and Italian is taught in small groups using worksheets and textbooks.

Visual arts encourage the enrich and imagination and creativity while developing skills thought he use of various media for picture-making, drawing, sculpture, and crafts

Music provides the opportunity to learn, read, compose and play music develop pitch, rhythm and beat and study various composers. Children also develop their vocal skills and participate in the school choir. Instrument music is introduction privately once a week either before or after school.