Adventure Curriculum
Parents are welcome to observe our classrooms. It will be immediately noticeable that our classrooms offer a rich variety of specially designed materials and resources unklie the traditional daycare setting. The materials and resources address and meet the wide range of interest, abilities and skills of the mixed-age preschool children working in the Montessori prepared environment. The goal of Adventure Montessori Learning is to provide an educational environment that serves the whole child, where they can grow intellectually, emotionally, socially and physically. Serving the whole child is an unmatched concept in a daycare environment. Children will teach themselves through use of the specially designed Montessori materials attractive, generally simple, and child size. Along with the curriculum come lessons in character development as well. Adventure Montessori feels that the best way to instill good values and self discipline is by being consistent, modeling the right behavior, and consciously teaching the children the correct thing to do.
LANGUAGE
The child has learned language naturally from his environment. Now the teacher brings these words to life. The alphabet identified by its sounds is presented with sandpaper letters that provide a phonic base for reading. The child only hears the sound a and sees its shape, but in tracing, they train their muscles for writing. They begin reading when they are ready and will proceed at their own pace.
MATHEMATICS
The world of numbers and their function is presented to the child in a most logical, understandable, and exciting manner. Each mathematical concept is embodied in a concrete piece of material. By manipulating these clear materials, the child understands gains substance. Mathematics becomes not terrifying, but a vibrant and inviting new dimension. These skills are used in the everyday childcare setting.
PRACTICAL LIFE
Skills that help in daily living. The young child loves the abundance of practical life exercises, because they enable them to function confidently and competently in activities of their everyday life. They satisfy the desires to imitate adults with items especially scaled to size. They are naturally attracted to things that give them independence and control of their life. Inside a daycare setting a child will usually be assigned a specific workplace and will not have this experience. Industriously they sweep, dust, polishes, and pour. The child is delighted in doing. While they are engrossed with their work, they are developing their concentration, their attention to detail, and their coordination. These exercises are the foundation on which the child is prepared for reading and writing.
SENSORIAL
Development of sensory perception. Preschool Children are continually surrounded by new sensations. The sensorial materials activate the childs absorption of these new impressions. This enables them to categorize and organize the unfamiliar. Each piece of material isolates one definite quality of sense: color, size, weight, shape, texture, and sound. Each piece of material stimulates extensive vocabulary building. This sensorial basis is presented in many of the academically oriented materials for our preschool. When a child develops their senses, they not only develop themselves but they form their learning tools.
FINE ARTS
Music, art, foreign language, and creative movement are available in our childcare setting.