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Primary Education Program
(2½ – 6 year-olds)
A child’s task during the primary years is self construction. The Montessori environment is designed to remove obstacles to development, laying a strong foundation for success in all aspects of life.
Curriculum
Dr. Montessori’s extensive research shows that children from ages 3 to 6 learn primarily through their senses. These keen minds possess the unique ability to absorb all aspects of their culture and environment without effort or fatigue. Guided by these principles, the primary classroom consists of four main areas: practical life, sensorial, language and mathematics.
Practical Life
In the Practical Life area, children learn how to function independently as they learn the skills of caring for themselves and their environment, grace and courtesy, and control and coordination of movement.
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Sensorial
Children build cognitive skills and learn to order and classify impressions by touching, seeing, smelling, tasting, listening and exploring the physical properties of their environment.
Language
The primary classroom is rich in oral language opportunities as the children experience conversations, stories and poetry. The didactic language materials help children link sound and symbols effortlessly, encouraging the development of written expression and reading skills. To enhance language development, children are introduced to grammar studies.
Mathematics
As with each of the other 3 areas, the understanding of math begins with manipulation of the concrete materials and gradually moves toward the abstraction of complex mathematical concepts.
Here are few examples of primary math lessons:
Introduction to the Decimal System (Golden Beads)
Introduction to the Decimal System (Cards)
The Bank Game/Collective Exercises (operations with the decimal system)
Linear and Skip Counting (chains)
Programs Offered
OakHaven Montessori School offers three options for the primary program:
Half Day 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Montessori class time and a morning snack
2/3 Day 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Montessori morning plus lunch and outside play time
Full Day 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Montessori morning, lunch, outside play time plus Montessori afternoon or nap
Extended Care is also available for families who need additional care:
Before School Care 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
After School Care 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Includes an afternoon snack
“My life has been spent in the research of truth. Through study of children I have scrutinized human nature at its origin both in the East and the West and although it is forty years now since I began my work, childhood still seems to me an inexhaustible source of revelations and – let me say – of hope.” – Dr. Maria Montessori, 1947