Language, Math, Sensorial, Practical Life, Science & Geography, Music & Movement, Arts & Crafts
Practical Life
Practical life is the most important stepping stone that builds the foundation in all areas of the Montessori classroom. By participating in activities like pouring, preparing food, tonging, spooning, and tweezing children refine their muscular coordination, develop concentration, learn order, and also learn to take care of self and environment. All activities usually follow a left-to-right and top-to-bottom orientation which indirectly prepares the child for reading and writing.
Sensorial
Sensorial materials fulfills the instinctive desire to see, touch, taste, hear, and feel around them. Each piece of sensorial material isolates one quality like color, weight, taste, touch, smell and dimension. It helps children to classify the environment by logical reasoned thoughts, and thus build the foundation for physical and mental activities in learning. It refines their five senses and helps them move along from concrete to abstract thinking in language development, writing and math.
Language
Language activity starts with pre-language like rhyming, categorizing, sequencing of story card and matching opposite cards. Children master alphabet sounds through sorting objects of begining sounds. This process helps them to encode and decode two to three sounds together which leads to read CVC words, phonogram words, blends, compound words and word families.
Math
The foundation of early math skills starts with practical life lessons where children develop a concept of order, sequence, and exactness, sensorial explorations of dimensions, and categorization. In the beginning, children learn math using math manipulative in a concrete approach. However with repetition and successive mathematical activity, children gradually move to more abstract thinking. The Montessori curriculum for this age group branches from simple 1-10 work to basic operations of addition, multiplication, subtraction, division, and the decimal layout.
Science & Geography
In geography, children at Paramount are exposed to hands-on puzzle maps of the world and the seven continents. They also learn about landforms, habitats and communities.
Science is taught through hands-on activities like living vs non-living, lifecycle of a butterfly, planets, sink & float lessons and more.
Music & Movement
Maria Montessori always believed in educating the whole child. So she incorporated hands-on activities in art, music, zoology, botany geography, and history. At Paramount Montessori, children are exposed to different cultures and festivities through songs. They learn the rhythm with drums, rhythm sticks, bells: triangles, and other musical instruments. Besides learning culture, music has other aspects too. Seasonal activities and festivals are reflected through art projects in our school. Children love to draw, paint make crafts relating to special occasions and celebrations all year round.
Weekly Group Activities
Monday Activities
Science and Culture
Music & Movement
Tuesday Activities
Science and Culture
Yoga
Wednesday Activities
Science and Culture
Music & Movement
Thursday Activities
Science and Culture
Spanish
Friday Activities
Science and Culture
Show and Tell
Arts & Crafts
Arts & Crafts are organized for all festivities throughout the year. These festivities include, but not limited to, Valentines Day, St. Patricks Day, Spring Activity, Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays. Children participate in making crafts in preparation to these festivities.
