PRIMARY PRESCHOOL PROGRAM (48-60 MONTHS)

This is a prepared environment prepared for preschool/pre kindergarten children between ages 3 to 6, entirely Montessori based. In this program, your child will have the opportunity to enjoy the freedom to move around his environment, and satisfy his inner needs for imitation, repetition, and movement through the following areas.

These activities satisfy the child's need for imitation through simple to complex activities that he has seen in his home environment. These activities that can be as simple as grasping beans from one container to another, or as detailed and complex as dishwashing, will allow the child to satisfy his need for imitation. They will also increase the development of his coordination of movement, independence, self-awareness, social skills of grace and courtesy, as well as concentration and attention.

These materials will help develop and refine your child's senses. Sensorial materials are concrete abstraction of the environment, such as color, shape, and size. Through these materials, and with the help of the teacher, the child experiences each of these qualities of the environment, one of his senses at a time. This area will help the child develop his senses, prepare his mathematical mind, and develop his sense of appreciation of art and language.

Through this area, the child will learn to love and appreciate the skills necessary for counting, adding, multiplying, dividing in all areas of mathematics, including static, dynamic or decimal operations. Once again, all the material in this area is set up in a concrete to abstract concept.

From the moment the child walks in the classroom, his/her vocabulary is constantly through all the areas of the environment. This area will concentrate on phonetically developing the child's ability to read and write at a very early age. He will also have the opportunity to learn parts of speech, oral expression, and creative writing, with the use of fun materials such as the farm game.

This area offers geography, history, botany, zoology, and human values materials. Your child will enjoy discovering his world and the world around him using his language, sensorial, and mathematical skills.

Practical Life : Brain and Body Development

Grace & Coutesy.Personal Care. Walking in the room.Working with the mat.Sweeping.Spooning.Poring.Sponging.Fabrfic Folding.Vase Carrying.Flower Arranging.Plant Watering.Hand Washing.Polishing DSilver.Dressing Frames (Snaps/Hook & eye,Zipper) Table Washing.Using Scissors. Holding and walking with sharp objections.Hammering a Nail.Banana Cutting.Hammering a nail.Food Preparation and serving

Sensorial : Writing Preparation & Brain Development

Knobbed Cylinder. Pink Tower.Experimenting with sensorial materials.Brown Stairs.Red Rods.Colored Tablets (First Box) Geometric Cabinet (Introduction Presentation), Geometric Cabinet (Regular and Irregular Polygons & Closed Form Shapes).Geometric Cabinet - Equilateral, Isosceles, and Scalene Triangles.Constructive Triangles: Rectangular Box. Mystery Bag. Touch Board (Rough and Smooth) Set.Touch Tablets. Fabric Box.Thermic Tablets.Sound Cylinders.The Bells - Introduction & Diatonic Scale.The Bells - Chromatic Scale.Geometric Solids.Binomial Cube

Cultural Development: Reading Preparation & General Development

Art at Home.Leaf Pressing.Water Color Paints.Geography -- Land and Water.Geography -- Colored and Sandpaper Globes.Geography -- Map of the Hemisphere.Zoology Classification.Living and Non-Living.Magnetism.Using a Magnifying Glass. Buoyancy.Light and Shadows


Language: Enriched Reading & Writing

Vocabulary Enrichment - Learning How to Hold a Discussion.Vocabulary Enrichment - Descriptive Language.Vocabulary Enrichment - Reading Aloud.Vocabulary Enrichment - Verbal Identification of Visual and Tactile Feedback.Vocabulary Enrichment - Real Object and Picture Matching.Vocabulary Enrichment - Picture Matching with Words.Vocabulary Enrichment - Categorization.Sounds of Letters - Rhyming Pictures and Sound Matching.Pre-Writing with the Sand Tray.Pre-Writing with Metal Insets.Letter Sounds - Sandpaper Letters.Letter Sounds - Object Boxes.Transition from Sandpaper Letters to Movable Alphabet.Reading and Writing - Movable Alphabet.Reading List of Consonant Vowel Consonant Words

Math: Quantities, Numerals, Decimal System

Sandpaper Numerals.Number Rods (Red & Blue Rods).Number Rods -- 2nd Presentation.Number Rods & Cards.Number Rods and Cards Exercise #2.Number Rods and Cards Exercise #3.Number Rod and Cards Exercise #3 Alternate.Spindle Boxes.Numerals & Counters.Short Bead Stair.Memory Game of Numbers. Introduction to the Golden Beads.The Concept of Zero.Working with Units through Thousands