Learning Areas
Practical Life
Proficiency in everyday life skills is developed through the use of reality based activities, enabling the student to gain self-confidence, concentration, coordination, and independence. The student is encouraged to develop a sense of reponsibility for care of self and care for the environment.
Sensorial / Geometry
Students are continually surrounded by new sensations. The sensorial materials activate the child's absorption of these new impressions. Included are exercises to develop and refine the senses - tactile, auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, and stereognostic. These skills translate into the geometry curriculum in the elementary classroom.
Language
The child learns language naturally from his environment. In order to develop these skills in language, pre-reading and pre-writing exercises begin with the concrete and move to the abstract. The alphabet, identified by its sounds, is presented with sandpaper letters that provide a phonetic base for reading. Students then advance through the curriculum, developing skills in reading, writing, and grammar.
Mathematics
Using concrete materials designed to encourage understanding of quantity to numeral relationships, place value, and mathematical functions, the child moves to a new level of understanding.
Cultural
Students gain a global perspective of the universe through exploration and research in these areas:
At Montessori Visions Academy, students from
2 through 8th grade experience an academically enriched atmosphere embedded in a well-ordered social community. Students learn by using manipulative classroom materials, as well as through teacher guidance. In a peaceful environment teachers work with students individually and in small groups with learning materials.
