Children’s House Program Highlights
Children’s House Curriculum
Sensorial
The sensorial area helps children to acquire information from their environment and classify that information to solve problems. Examples of sensorial skills are sorting from largest to smallest, matching fabrics by touch alone, and learning how to name and identify both two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional solids.
Practical Life
In the practical life area, our students develop concentration, coordination, and independence. They practice skills that help them care for themselves and develop their fine motor skills. Examples of practical life works are pouring water, using tongs, washing windows, and preparing food.
Language
Materials in the language area help children to first develop pre-reading skills such as understanding sequence and visually discriminating amongst shapes. Students then move on to sandpaper letters to teach the shape of letters and their sounds. We use moveable alphabet letters so children can begin forming words. Our approach to literacy is a blend of phonics and whole-language methods.
Mathematics
The math area is divided into several sections: quantities 1-10 (where a child’s one-to-one correspondence becomes fixed and numeral symbols are clearly associated with quantities); operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division); linear counting (eventually resulting in counting to 1000); and the decimal system (place value into the thousands).
Science & Geography
The math area is divided into several sections: quantities 1-10 (where a child’s one-to-one correspondence becomes fixed and numeral symbols are clearly associated with quantities); operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division); linear counting (eventually resulting in counting to 1000); and the decimal system (place value into the thousands).
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ’The children are now working as if I did not exist.’
~ Maria Montessori