Primary Montessori Program

Primary Montessori Class

Ages

3 – 6 yrs.

In our Primary Montessori classroom, the “Daffodils,” highly trained teachers create a customized environment to promote “hands-on” learning.

In a prepared classroom, children work with specially designed manipulative materials that invite exploration and engage the senses in the process of learning.

All the activities in our classroom promote:

  • Meaningful and challenging work at a child’s interest and ability level. 
  • Child-directed activities keep a child motivated, helps build focus, and encourages responsibility. 
  • Work at their own pace

What is a Montessori work cycle, and how does it work?

A Montessori work cycle lets the child direct what he/she wants to work with and, in turn, facilitates the development of coordination, concentration, and independence.

A Montessori work cycle is a three-step process.

  1. Selection of activity
  2. Working on it for as long it keeps their interest alive.
  3. Cleaning up the activity and returning it to the shelf and making another work choice.

“Dr. Maria Montessori believed (and modern science has affirmed) that moving and learning are inseparable.” American Montessori Society

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Curriculum:

The Primary Classroom follows a 3-year sequence curriculum. The teacher is a guide, and the children learn at their own pace. Playful Plato Montessori offers an individualized curriculum for your children. Learning is limitless in this classroom, with opportunities for the children to touch the skies.

Classroom work areas layout

  • Practical Life

    Children love working on activities on the Practical Life shelf. These are activities that develop fine motor skills. 

    The Practical Life shelf helps the children learn the following daily-life skills:

    • Getting dressed
    • Pouring liquid from one container to the other
    • Transferring objects from one jar to the other using different spoons, ladles, and tongs.
    • Cleaning and sweeping

    These skill-building activities help:

    • Build focus
    • Understand the basic concepts of mathematics
    • Improve hand-eye coordination
    • Improve controlled muscle movement
    • Develop strong hand muscles that help a child write beautifully later on
    • Promote independence and self-reliance
  • Sensorial

    The Sensorial section of the classroom helps develop and refine all the five senses. 

    The children learn:

    • Experience the difference between surfaces
    • They learn how to distinguish based on weight, height, and volume.
    • Tune to match sounds and smells
    • It also lays a basis for Geometry.
    • It refines vocabulary, math, and classification skills.
  • Math

    Playful Platos Montessori uses a “hands-on” approach. Children not only memorize math facts; they gain a firm understanding of the meaning behind them by repeating the concept in different forms and activities.
    Children learn how to:

    • Read and write numerals.
    • Match them to their quantity by working on different materials.
    • Understand place-value and the base-10 system
    • Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with the help of colored beads.
  • Language

    At Playful Platos Montessori, we promote language activities throughout the day.

    Our language activities promote children to:

    • Acquire and use vocabulary
    • Develop the skills needed for writing
    • Develop the necessary skills for reading
    • Learn basic grammar
    • Learn sentence structure
    • Write creatively using all the skills mentioned above
  • Science, Geography, and History

    Geography and Science shelves help the children understand the different concepts ranging from:

    • Difference between living and non-living
    • Difference between landforms
    • Learn the names and identify the continents
    • Learn and identify the oceans
    • Learn where we are in space
    • Explore different cultures and celebrations which helps them develop an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of our world