The Montessori Primary program offers a unique, mixed-age classroom environment, for children approximately 2½ to 6-years-old. Children engage in individual learning experiences, as well as one-on-one interactions, which are integral to the Montessori Method. As children get older, they tend to see things that adults find ordinary as very interesting and special. Practical life exercises like sorting, pouring, or washing dishes absorb them completely. We recognize this as the beginning of control and coordination of mind and body. That’s why Montessori learning revolves around tangible, hands-on experiences. Children use concrete materials to learn math; movable alphabet letters to explore language; and cubes, cylinders, and other objects to categorize find spatial relationships, and more. Our Primary classroom is for students between the ages of 2½ years and 4 years. Primary classrooms promote skills of independence, concentration, social skills, and academic readiness necessary to succeed at the next level. Your child will benefit from the multi-age classrooms that help students to learn and support each other and learn at their own pace. In this classroom, the main focuses are continuing to increase students' independence, applying knowledge of letters and sounds to word recognition, basic science and math operations, introduction to geography, and the world’s cultures. The primary class also prepares the students for a kindergarten program.