Our curriculum
In our school we follow the Montessori Curriculum entails an innovative learning framework that incorporates specific learning outcomes and knowledge skills which satisfy children’s development needs and interest.
Areas of learning
The Montessori Curriculum is divided into five key areas of learning:
- Practical life
- Sensorial
- Mathematics
- Language
- Culture
1. Practical life
Practical life activities also referred to as Daily Life Activities are geared towards enabling children to:
- Develop independence.
- Refine manipulative skills, dexterity and coordination.
- Expand their social skills and social awareness.
- Encourage sense of order and capacity for self-control.
- Raise the children’s self- esteem.
- Enable children to face new challenges.
- Prepare children for other areas of the Montessori Curriculum.
2. Sensorial
Sensorial materials for children in a Montessori classroom were designed by Dr. Maria Montessori to help children express classify and refine their sensory experiences.
The major objectives of the sensorial activities are:
- Refine all the five senses; sense of touch, smell, hearing, taste and sight.
- To refine each of the child’s sense in isolation (popularly) referred to as Isolation of senses.
- Prepare children to be able to carry out activities in other areas especially Mathematics.
3. Language/literacy
- Literacy materials are designed to enhance vocabulary and exploration in both written and spoken language.
- Through Montessori Literacy activities such as sand paper letters and the movable alphabet, children learn phonetic sounds and how to compose words phonetically.
- They progress, first using concrete materials to compose their own written work, read the work of others and learn to communicate their unique thoughts and feelings.
4. Mathematics
- Mathematical concepts are first introduced to children by use of concrete materials. Initial explorations with the sensorial materials encourage children to understand basic mathematics concepts such as learning number recognition, counting and sequencing of numbers. Children are introduced to abstract mathematical concept such as the decimal system and mathematical operations.
5. Culture
- Cultural activities lead children to experience music, stories, artwork and items from the child’s community, society and cultural background. Geography, Science Zoology and Botany are covered in this area.
- Cultural activities enable children to develop an awareness and appreciation of the world around them.