Primary
The Primary programs at Villa Di Maria Montessori are geared toward children from 2.5 to 6.5 years. Each classroom is a welcoming home environment with authentic Montessori materials where experienced teachers give meaningful lessons and nurture our students.
Practical Life
In the Practical Life area of the classroom, children work with a variety of materials that allow them to master skills such as cutting, pasting, pouring, spooning, washing, sewing, polishing, folding, sewing, and more. The foundational work done in the Practical Life area serves to develop confidence, improve fine-motor abilities, and support a child in becoming self-sufficient.
Sensorial
Sensorial materials help to refine a child’s senses so that they can receive stimuli from the outside world in a more logical and ordered way. Sensorial lessons focus on giving children the experience and vocabulary to be familiar with shapes and their relationships, to sort items based on size, to recognize when two things are similar or different. These sorts of abilities strengthen a child’s logical reasoning and math sense.
Language
Language experiences are woven throughout our entire classroom. Sandpaper letters, moveable alphabet boxes, sandpaper phonograms, puzzle words, word study, and many other materials help our students to write and read with confidence. Spelling and grammar come naturally as a result of frequent exposure to good books and constant practice creating written projects.
Mathematics
Our mathematics program is specially designed to help children become comfortable working with numbers. Numerals are introduced at a young age and math games are always popular. After a complete cycle in the classroom, fluent addition and subtraction is the norm. Our curriculum includes decimals, fractions, multiplication, and division before the end of Kindergarten. All this is accomplished naturally and easily with the aid of beautiful and purposeful materials.
