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The Academy offers a complete Montessori curriculum for primary and elementary students with options to fit every family's needs.
Curriculum Options
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Infant Montessori (ages 10 weeks to 18 months)
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| Full Day |
8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. |
| Extended Day Infant |
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. |
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Toddler Montessori (age 18 months to 2.5 years)
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| Half-Day Mornings |
8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. |
| Full Day |
8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. |
| Extended Day Toddler |
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. |
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Junior Montessori (ages 2.5 years to 3.5 years)
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| Half-Day Mornings |
8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. |
| Full Day |
8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. |
| Extended Day Junior |
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. |
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Montessori Primary (ages 3-6)
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| Half-Day Mornings |
8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. |
| Kindergarten (age 5 before 9/30) |
8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. |
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Montessori Elementary
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| First-Third Grades (ages 6-9) |
8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. |
Montessori Extended Day
Includes primary, kindergarten or elementary class
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| Before-School Primary/K/Elem. |
7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m.. |
| Full-Day Primary |
8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. |
| Extended-Day Primary/K |
8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. |
| Extended-Day Elementary |
7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. |
Educational Goals
The Montessori curriculum varies by program, but the following goals are consistent throughout our school:
- To enter into a partnership with parents in the education of their children
- To encourage the self-motivation and self-discipline that will lead to a life-long pursuit of knowledge
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To lead children to mastery of precisely identified intellectual, social, and physical skills
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To help children develop a positive self-image as the key to the development of their full potential
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To foster open minds, compassion, and respect for others
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To balance self-reliance, independence, and freedom with the skills of working cooperatively
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To instill in each child a sense of duty and personal responsibility for the world in which we live
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To spark our children's imagination, wonder, humor, and joy...
The Primary Program
The Primary program covers a three-year cycle for children 3, 4, 5-6 years of age. Each class is a multi-age grouping, balanced for gender and developmental stage. Every student has a chance to be both leader and follower. Cooperative interactive learning promotes authentic socialization of the child.
Dr. Montessori demonstrated that learning results from the interaction of a child's internal thought and external experience in the world around them. To encourage children to explore this world and organize their knowledge of it, we prepare the classroom environment with activities and materials that are appealing and enjoyable, but serious in purpose and effect.
An observer in one of our Primary (3 to 6) classes is struck by the wide range of independent activities going on. This takes careful monitoring, encouragement and tutoring by our experienced teachers and assistants, but the result is well worth it, Each child is allowed to develop academically and socially to their fullest potential. Children learn to read, write and count at their own pace. They learn how to make choices, finish and put work away, and how to correct their mistakes. They learn and practice independence, patience and responsibility for themselves and others as well as becoming masters of creative problem solving.
The Primary program offers the full range of sensorial Montessori experience including:
Language Arts: Pre-reading; reading and writing skills, introduction to Spanish
Mathematics: Number recognition and concepts; exploring and understanding addition, subtraction and other operations
Music and Movement; Physical Education
History and Geography
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