 Life Skills
Through activities such as caring for the animals at the school as well
as practical housecare like sweeping, setting the tables for snacktime, washing
up after art projects, vacuuming, cleaning windows or mirrors, planting,
watering and weeding the garden, children learn to plan, problem solve and
to pay attention to details while also developing a sense of responsibility,
self-esteem and physical co-ordination. Cooking projects offer practice pouring,
measuring and mixing and an introduction to following written sequential
instructions.
Dressing frames allow children to practice snapping, buttoning,
lacing and buckling.
Managing a linen closet, children learn to fold sheets,
blankets, towels, and tableclothes all of which form part of the daily living
skills activities whose aim is to give a sense of order while lengthening
the child´s concentration span and tolerance of frustration.
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Sensory Perception Area
Sensory exercises are developed specifically to help refine the preschoolers ability to name, categorize, and differentiate information received through each of the five senses, the idea being that the senses provide concrete information from which later abstraction can be made in all areas.
Mathematics
The Mathematics work area is replete with concrete hands-on self-correcting materials designed to allow the children to discover for themselves the substance which underlies mathematic concepts. Children are naturally drawn to exercises in counting, sorting, ordering and reordering according to shape, height, length, width, weight, size, volume etc... These activities along with introductory/hands on addition and subtraction exercises prepare our students for future mathematic learning situations.
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Reading Room/Library
 Our students are encouraged to choose from our wide selection of books to read at any time. The library is classified according to subject and level of difficulty, and children are allowed to check out books at the end of their session. We teach phonetic sounds of the letters before the names, thereby helping the children to begin recognizing the first and last consonants of one syllable words, later graduating on to more complex two and three sylable words. Our students learn to recognize their own and each others´ names through daily activities such as hanging their coat, putting their artwork away, passing out snacks to their classmates, or finding their own toothbrush from among the others. All of these routine events are accompanied by written words or names. Tactile materials such as letters written in sandpaper encourage the children to develop direct relationships with written language.
Geography
Puzzle maps allow 2 dimensional concrete interaction with the continents and countries of the world while the globe offers a perspective of the earth in 3 dimensions. Didactic sculptures of land forms such as mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers, islands, peninsulas give interactive oportunity to learn about geography. Little by little, the children learn the difference between a city, country and continent, learning the names of some countries along the way.
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History
Everyday the new date is added to our interactive calendar which along with time line pictorial representation of personal history offers the first distinctions between day and night, week, weekend, month and year. The individual ages of the children are tracked on an interactive birthday chart which also helps our students place themselves in time.
Gross Motor Areas
Through directed exercises in the gymnasium and free play on the patio, we encourage the preschoolers to practice basic equilibrium, whole body and age-appropriate hand eye-coordination skills.
Fine Motor Skills Area
 The primary objective of the fine motor skills area is to prepare the children for writing.
Through concrete didactic materials presented in game form, later moving on to specific graduated writing exercises, the preschoolers gain the wrist flexibility and fine motor control necessary for future success in writing.
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Multi-Cultural Awareness
Our students learn first hand to be open to new cultures through direct experience with teachers from around the world, as well as through thematic books in the library. In the future, we hope to impliment web conferencing with other montessori classrooms accross the globe.
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Art
Art projects have as their aim creative, imaginative expression as well as psychomotor development. Often, art projects are woven into science, environmental and geography studies, as children create concrete models of these subject areas.
Music
 The music room is one of the children´s favorite spaces, and one of the strongest English language reinforcements for our bilingual young students. With a great variety of instruments placed on shelves within their reach, the pre-schoolers express themselves spontaneously, while also receiving directed music and listening activities.
Here we have the opportunity to develop the concepts of loud, soft, fast, slow, high and low, reinforcing auditory memory with the introduction of rhythm and melody as well as developing an appreciation for different kinds of music from around the world.
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 Computer Room
If the music room is one of the children´s favorite spaces, the computer room is one of the others. With six machines at the preschooler´s disposition, the children have the daily oportunity for interactive play. Children from three years on learn to move the mouse, to click and to drag, managing within their favorite didactic games and websites. One of the primary purposes of this area is to familiarize the children with technology introducing them and instilling a sense of mastery within the world of information and communication. One of our future goals in this area is to connect with other Montessori schools from around the world to form cultural exchange groups by way of videoconference.
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