Grace Montessori Combo Classes Program

 

Early Childhood Classroom - Three to six years old



Practical Life:
The practical life exercises enhance the development of task organization and cognitive order through care of self, care of the environment, exercises of grace and courtesy, and refinement of physical movement and coordination. 

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Sensorial:
The sensorial materials enable the child to order, classify, seriate, and describe sensory impressions in relation to length, width, temperature, mass, color, etc.. 

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Math:
The Montessori math materials, through concrete manipulative materials, allows the child to internalize the concepts of number, symbol, sequence, operations, and memorization of basic facts.

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Language:
The language work includes oral language development, written expression, reading, the study of grammar, creative dramatics, and children's literature. Basic skills in writing and reading are developed through the use of sandpaper letters (loose alphabet letters) and various presentations allowing children to effortlessly links sounds and symbols and express their thoughts in writing. The child is also presented with geography, history, life sciences, music, art, and movement education.

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Virtually every environment will also have an elliptical line on the floor. This is generally used for "walking on the line" activities that help children develop gracefulness and for the "silence game" where children can practice sitting without making a sound. The line is also frequently used for a large group meeting area, where the class meets as a whole. Often a class will have one or two large group meetings each day. One will usually serve as an opening meeting and precede a more individualized work period and another will serve as a closing or transitional group time preceding the next activity (i.e., time outdoors, lunch, dismissal, etc.). The group meetings may be used for large group presentations of materials, movement, music activities, group celebrations, snacks, games, and discussions.

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Children enrolling in the Combo A, Combo B, and Kindergarten classes must be fully toilet trained as we do not have the proper  facilities for changing diapers in those classrooms