Skills and knowledge
There are four main areas in the preschool Montessori program: Real life – Sensory development – Language – Math. In addition, the program also covers some areas of culture including history, geography, science, and music. At this stage, we want to bring children excitement in learning with an environment that is carefully prepared based on a child’s developmental needs:
• Real-life skills: Practice self-care skills, take care of the nature skills. Children have the opportunity to contribute to the classroom community as a responsible individual: preparing snacks, arranging flowers, cleaning windows, taking care of plants
• Sensory Development: Introduces interesting concepts of color, weight, shape, texture, size, material, sound and smell, develops the ability to classify, sort, and distinguish – essential skills in mathematics, geometry and language.
• Mathematics: Familiarize themselves with numbers and symbols. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are introduced through extremely intuitive tools, creating excitement and better understanding for children.
• Language: Language development pervades the classroom as children share discoveries, learn new songs, listen to stories, and work with many Montessori teachers to learn letters and spelling, reading and writing.
• Culture: Introducing the world outside classrooms including geography, history, science, biology, and botany. Nature and global awareness are taught in the classroom through the use of fruits, the model of the earth, types of soil and water, animal and plant jigsaw, and scientific studies: water bodies, sink, float, seed germination, etc.