Curriculum

• Montessori paired with Creative Curriculum
• Whole Language & Phonics
• Modern technology with age appropriate educational programs
  
• Scholastic Weekly Readers:  Let’s Find Out and Clifford magazines along with their on-line resources for each magazine
  

What is Montessori?

Montessori is an educational approach developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori and characterized by an emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child’s natural physiological, physical, and social development.

• Student choice of activity from within a prescribed range of options
• Uninterrupted blocks of work time, ideally three hours

•  A constructivist or "discovery" model, where students learn concepts from working with materials, rather than by direct instruction
• Specialized educational materials developed by Montessori and her collaborators
• Freedom of movement within the classroom
• A trained Montessori teacher

What is Creative Curriculum?

Creative Curriculum balances both teacher-directed and child-initiated learning, with an emphasis on responding to children's learning styles and building on their strengths and interests.  The philosophy behind the Creative Curriculum is that young children learn best by doing. Learning isn't just repeating what someone else says; it requires active thinking and experimenting to find out how things work and to learn firsthand about the world we live in.

>> View our 2016-17 curriculum plan here.

Play is the work of a child.
Maria Montessori