The VDM Primary Program
Discover an exceptional Montessori preschool experience at Villa Di Maria Montessori, where our acclaimed Primary programs cater to children aged 2.5 to 6.5 years. Each thoughtfully designed classroom offers a welcoming home environment, meticulously prepared with authentic Montessori materials to inspire independence and a deep love for learning. Under the guidance of our experienced and nurturing educators, children receive meaningful, individualized lessons that foster holistic development. Below, we explore how the core tenets of Montessori philosophy are beautifully integrated across all four areas of our classrooms, ensuring your child receives an unparalleled and enriching preschool foundation.
Practical Life
Within the Montessori preschool environment, the Practical Life area is a foundational cornerstone, immersing children in a rich variety of purposeful activities. Here, children engage with hands-on materials to master essential daily living skills such as cutting, pasting, pouring, spooning, washing, sewing, polishing, and folding. This crucial foundational work is meticulously designed to cultivate self-confidence, significantly enhance fine motor abilities, and empower each child to become remarkably independent and self-sufficient. It’s where concentration, coordination, and a joyful sense of accomplishment truly flourish.
Sensorial
Sensorial materials in our vibrant Montessori preschool environment are masterfully designed to refine a child’s senses, empowering them to perceive and interpret stimuli from the outside world with enhanced logic and order. Through hands-on exploration with these unique tools, children gain invaluable experience and specialized vocabulary to become intimately familiar with geometric shapes, their relationships, and the nuances of sorting items by size, weight, color, and texture. This precise sensory discrimination is absolutely fundamental, significantly strengthening a child’s innate logical reasoning, cultivating keen observation skills, and building a robust ‘math sense’ crucial for future academic success.
Language
In our enriching Montessori preschool environment, comprehensive language experiences are organically woven throughout every aspect of the classroom. Utilizing innovative, hands-on materials such as sandpaper letters, the moveable alphabet, sandpaper phonograms, and engaging puzzle words, we empower our students to develop foundational literacy skills and approach both writing and reading with remarkable confidence. Through consistent exposure to quality literature and abundant opportunities for creative written expression, the mastery of spelling and grammar unfolds naturally, cultivating articulate communicators and fostering a lifelong love for language.
Mathematics
The mathematics program at our Montessori Preschool is uniquely designed to cultivate a profound comfort and intuitive understanding of numbers from a remarkably young age. Through engaging, hands-on experiences with our beautiful and purposeful Montessori materials, children are naturally introduced to numerals and complex mathematical concepts, transforming learning into an exciting discovery. It’s common for our students, after completing a full classroom cycle, to achieve fluent mastery in addition and subtraction with remarkable ease. What truly sets our curriculum apart is its advanced scope: we comprehensively introduce concepts like decimals, fractions, multiplication, and even division, all typically mastered well before the end of their Kindergarten year. This accelerated yet natural progression is a testament to the power of the Montessori method in building strong numerical literacy and a genuine, lifelong love for mathematics.
