• Reading – Early exercises are used to practice reading and recognizing parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Interpretive reading for comprehension at ever-increasing levels of difficulty. Children will use library and reference books for both research and pleasure. Novel Study is a monthly focus, and the Junior Great books are used to develop critical thinking.

• Handwriting – Many exercises are used to develop and prepare the hand to write cursively through beautiful Montessori presentations.

• Composition – Once handwriting is accomplished, children start to develop their composition skills by understanding sentence structure, paragraph structure, etc. Research skills and preparation of reports gradually become a major part of the educational program. Students will compose short stories, poems, plays, reports and news articles. The development of essay writing begins in Lower Elementary, where students are encouraged to write paragraphs that are descriptive and gradually build the paragraphs into an essay.

• Grammar - a whole grammar learning scheme is presented with the use of Montessori materials called Grammar boxes. In Grades 4-6 ( Upper elementary) this study is taken further increasing students writing skills, sentence structure and comprehension.

• Spelling – Students use the movable alphabet to sound out and spell words as they learn to read. 

• Word Study -The study of compound words, singular/plural, masculine/feminine, prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms homonyms, contractions, idioms, similes, and metaphors.  Increasing comprehension, spelling and writing skills.

Study of the four basic operations with the use of the golden beads: addition, multiplication, subtraction and division continues. Children then begin the “passage of abstraction” by solving problems with paper and pencil. Children will work with fractions, decimals and geometry. They study money units, history, equivalent sums and foreign currencies as part of social studies. They also study the history of mathematics, its application in science, graph reading and preparation and statistical analysis. Students learn the nomenclature, characteristics, measurement and drawing of geometric shapes and concepts such as point angle and surface solid, etc.

Physical, cultural and economic geography is studied. Through the use of puzzle maps, children will study land and water formations, longitude and latitude, coordinate positions on the globe, the earth’s poles, the history and use of the compass, topographic maps, and much more. At the primary level, we have concentrated on studying continents. At the elementary level, our cultural studies are more specific, and countries are studied in many ways: geography, climate, fauna, flora, major rivers and lakes, cities, mountains, people, food, religion, etc. Children also study the natural resources of the earth in terms of production, imports, exports and interdependence. The presentation of the Great Stories helps children understand the universe.

They will continue with the Orff music program and will also have access to music materials within their classroom. This will include further studies of classical music, rhythm, voice, dance, movement, Orff instruments (including playing the recorder) and composing music.

Art is integrated into the whole curriculum. Art is used to expand lessons in science, geography, history, language arts and math. Formal art instruction is also given in the classroom through a variety of techniques and media. Artists and schools of art are also explored.

Each year children will continue to study and analyze the needs, culture, technology and social history of various periods in history. Development of transportation, architecture, great inventions and great leaders will also be studied.

Children continue to focus on botany and zoology as they have already been doing in the primary classrooms through the identification, labelling and naming of various plants and animals. The children do a very specific study of the animal kingdom, including mankind. Students are also introduced to Chemistry and Physics through the study of the Elements and through various experiments.

French is introduced to the children. The emphasis is on children gaining a love for the language, building a vocabulary and basic grammar skills. The classroom has materials that children will be able to work with once they have mastered their reading skills.

Computers are available in the classroom. The primary purpose of the computers will be for research and writing purposes. Children will also learn skills in keyboarding, word processing, graphing, spreadsheets and photography.