What are Montessori Curriculum Areas?
Inglewood Montessori’s curriculum focuses on six areas. PRACTICAL LIFE: The children learn how to tie their shoes, put on their coats, or clean up after themselves if they spill something. SENSORY AWARENESS EDUCATION: These exercises make sure children use all five senses to learn. For example, a child studying about fall gathers leaves and feels how brittle they are. LANGUAGE ARTS: Children are encouraged to express themselves verbally and are taught to trace and recognize letters as a precursor to learning reading, spelling, grammar, and handwriting skills. MATHEMATICS and GEOMETRY: Children learn about numbers through hands-on learning using concrete materials, such as the golden beads that represent the hierarchy of the decimal system, for example. CULTURAL SUBJECTS: Children learn about other countries (geography), animals (zoology), time, history, music, movement, science, and art. SOCIALIZATION: Children learn about relationships and cooperative activities through parties, speci
