Prima Curriculum

Prima Curriculum

Children in our Prima Community have exposure to six key areas:

Practical Life:

Exercises and activities that children observe in daily life. These activities develop children's independence, coordination, concentration, and fine and gross motor skills. Practical Life activities are calming and grounding activities that teach purposeful ways to be responsible and thoughtful.

Sensorial:

Activities that teach children to refine their senses of touch, sound, smell, and taste so that they are able to organize sensory impressions and their understanding of the world. Children have exposure to similarity, difference, dimension, colors, shapes, and distinguish between smells, tast, and sound.

Sensorial work also prepares children for mathematics, language, and geometry by teaching how to classify and sort.

Language:

The Montessori Language Curriculum provides children with the knowledge and skills to build their vocabulary and understanding of language. The preparatory skills required for reading, writing, and oral language are developed through hands on experience using Montessori language materials. Prima children are exposed to rich language through diverse literature, nomenclature, songs, poetry, sequencing activities, real life imagery, and stories based in reality. Oral language skills are developed through daily social interactions, peer and group time experiences, and lessons in grace and courtesy.

Mathematics:

The Mathematic Curriculum teaches young children to understand concepts and relationships through hands-on learning experiences. Children have exposure to concepts such as more than and less than, calendar exploration, patterns, sorting, one to one correspondence, counting, learning the symbol of numbers, and learning to associate numerals and quantity.

Culture:

Multicultural studies lay a foundation of mutual understanding by exposing children to geography, history, physical, and life science basics. Children gain an awareness of the world around them by exploring other countries, their customs, foods, languages, and wildlife for example.

Grace and Courtesy:

Grace and Courtesy lessons are essentially teaching the children what it means to be polite and how to appropriately communicate their feelings. These lessons are often demonstrated through role-play given by the teacher and students who are willing to demonstrate their etiquette (the children are always very entertained by these lessons!)