Programs

Our Programs

Unleash your little one‘s full potential with Alka Montessori’s outstanding programs. Learn more about our engaging childcare options that cater to different age groups. 

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18 Months–2 1/2 Years

Programs Available

  • Full Day: 8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. 
  • Half Day: 8:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 

Enrollment options are 3 days per week and 5 days per week. Both programs include two snacks throughout the day. 

Syllabus

Language Arts

  • Identifying all the letters and initial sounds using sandpaper letters. 
  • Identifying sounds in words. 
  • Tracing letters in correct form and character. 

The language materials aim to support, develop, and refine vision, hearing, and speech, preparing the child for more formal learning of writing, reading, and penmanship. Additionally, various exercises are introduced to enhance sensorimotor skills. 

Mathematics

  • Identifying numbers 0-9. 
  • Mastering 1-10 in terms of quantity and quality. 

The mathematical concepts are introduced in a concrete manner, allowing the child to count up to ten and comprehend quantities using tools like linear rods, sandpaper numbers, and the spindle box. 

Practical Life

  • Learning about independence and self-reliance. 
  • Establishing connections between physical, mental, and moral desires. 

The Practical Life section forms the basis for all other classroom activities. It encompasses everyday tasks that the child needs to learn in order to master self-care and environmental upkeep. These activities include pouring, sweeping, and practicing grace and courtesy. The presentation of these tasks is designed to develop the child’s concentration, coordination, independence, and orderliness. 

Sensorial

  • Exploring different shapes. 
  • Distinguishing between smooth and rough textures. 
  • Understanding the concepts of hot and cold. 
  • Differentiating between sweet and sour tastes. 
  • Distinguishing between spicy and sweet flavors. 
  • Contrasting rough and soft surfaces. 
  • Learning about cooking. 

Sensorial materials have a built-in control of error, which helps to develop in the child a habit of working independently, without fear of making mistakes, thereby becoming more comfortable with the fact that errors are essential to the process of learning. 

This area contains Montessorispecific materials that help the child refine his or her experience of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. Sensory experiences with materials are the child’s first step toward understanding the abstract concepts they represent. 

Geography/Culture

  • Identifying continents and countries. 
  • Learning about the diverse food, clothing, and languages of other countries. 

Poems

  • Learning about poems. 

Science

  • Studying plant life. 
  • Exploring the animal kingdom. 
  • Investigating the life cycles and care of various organisms. 

Music

  • Exploring the relationship between music, rhythm, and exercise. 

Foreign Languages

  • Spanish 
    • Counting 
    • Greetings 
    • Seasons
    • Songs

2 1/2 Years to 4 Years

Programs Available

  • Full Day: 8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. 
  • Half Day: 8:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 

Enrollment options are 3 days per week and 5 days per week. Both programs include two snacks throughout the day. 

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Syllabus

Practical Life

  • Learning about independence and self-reliance. 
  • Correlating physical, mental, and moral desires. 
    • Physical: Moving and exercising to support the growth of limbs. 
    • Psychic: Refining and practicing movements. 
    • Moral: Learning a sense of usefulness and helpfulness toward others. 
  • Learning about respect and appreciation for all types of work. 
  • Performing daily activities with joy, skill, and grace, thus striving for perfection. 
  • Learning how to achieve faster normalization. 

Practical life encompasses preliminary exercises, motor skills development, self-care, environmental care, grace, and courtesy. 

Sensorial

Sensorial materials facilitate individual work and repetition, allowing children to classify their sensorial impressions in an organized, orderly, and scientific manner. These materials incorporate a built-in control of error, encouraging independent work and instilling confidence in the child to embrace mistakes as essential to the learning process. 

  • Sight: 
    • Cylinder Blocks 
    • Knobbed Cylinders 
    • Pink Cube Tower 
    • Broad Stair and Knobless Cylinders 
    • Primary and Secondary Colors 
    • Binomial and Trinomial Cubes 
    • Shapes of the Geometric Cabinet (Presentation Tray) 
    • Constructive Triangles (Triangular, Rectangular) 
    • Large and Small Hexagonal Boxes 
    • Geometric Solids and Bases For Geometric Solids 
  • Touch: 
    • Rough And Smooth Board 
    • Texture Tablets 
    • Fabric Boxes 
  • Smell: 
    • Smelling Jars 
  • Taste: 
    • Tasting Solids 
  • Sound: 
    • Sound Cylinders 
    • Bells

This course also involves enhancing a child’s stereognostic sense. 

 

Language Arts

  • Developing oral language skills through storytelling, poems, and songs. 
  • Identifying and recognizing letters and their initial sounds. 
  • Recognizing sounds in words. 
  • Identifying beginning sounds in words. 
  • Identifying ending sounds in words. 
  • Tracing letters in the correct form and direction. 
  • Expanding vocabulary through object-to-object and object-to-picture matching. 
  • Classifying objects by different characteristics. 
  • Understanding opposites and things that go together. 
  • Tracing and writing names. 
  • Developing oral language skills through storytelling, poems, and songs. 
  • Identifying and recognizing letters and their initial sounds. 
  • Recognizing sounds in words. 
  • Identifying beginning sounds in words. 
  • Identifying ending sounds in words. 
  • Tracing letters in the correct form and direction. 
  • Expanding vocabulary through object-to-object and object-to-picture matching. 
  • Classifying objects by different characteristics. 
  • Understanding opposites and things that go together. 
  • Tracing and writing names. 

Mathematics

  • Utilizing number rods. 
  • Learning with sandpaper numbers. 
  • Practicing with the spindle box. 
  • Engaging in counter games. 
  • Enhancing memory skills through a memory game. 
  • Mastering the concept of quantity and quality for numbers 1-30. 
  • Learning about the decimal system (introduction). 
  • Exploring numbers with teen boards. 
  • Understanding place value with ten boards. 
  • Learning how to tell time using clocks (introduction). 

Culture

  • Studying history (weeks, months, and seasons). 
  • Exploring different land and water forms in geography. 
  • Learning about continents and countries around the world. 
  • Learning about diverse food, clothing, languages, and traditions around the world. 

Science

  • Exploring the life cycles of plants and animals. 

Music

  • Engaging in music and movement activities. 

Foreign Languages

  • Spanish 
    • Counting 
    • Greetings 
    • Colors 
    • Days of the Week 

4 Years to 5+ Years

Programs Available

  • Full Day: 8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. 
  • Half Day: 8:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 

Enrollment options are 3 days per week and 5 days per week. Both programs include two snacks throughout the day. 

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Syllabus

Language Arts

  • Hearing and identifying sounds in words, including rhymes, syllables, beginning or ending consonants, and blends. 
  • Recognizing the sounds of most consonants and easy-to-hear vowel sounds. 
  • Reading and writing frequently used words. 
  • Understanding the basics of print, including letters, words, and page layout. 
  • Writing letters correctly, in the standard form and direction. 
  • Deciphering unfamiliar words in reading and spelling using familiar words. 
  • Using resources, such as word walls and lists. 
  • Reading diverse forms of language, such as poetry, fairy tales, song lyrics, haiku, and fiction and nonfiction. 

Mathematics

  • Mastering the concept of quantity and quality for numbers 1-30. 
  • Recognizing and copying patterns. 
  • Learning about measuring and graphing (introduction). 
  • Acquiring a strong foundation in basic number operations. 
  • Understanding fractions (introduction). 
  • Understanding money (introduction). 
  • Understanding time (introduction). 

Practical Life

  • Building concentration, order, focus, and self-control through a variety of activities. 
  • Learning practical daily skills through hands-on activities and manipulatives. 
  • Developing small motor control, motor planning, and hand-eye coordination through practical tasks. 
  • Building the muscles needed for proper pencil grip, whole hand movement, and wrist control. 
  • Learning the importance of care for self and the environment. 

Sensorial

  • Engaging in learning through the five senses. 
  • Developing discrimination skills in size, weight, color, smell, sound, and texture. 

Culture and Geography

  • Studying physical land and water forms. 
  • Learning about continent maps and globes. 
  • Learning about different cultures, including their food, clothing, and language. 
  • Exploring the animal species that live in other countries. 
  • Understanding the physical composition and characteristics of different countries. 

Science

  • Exploring botany. 
  • Studying zoology through life cycles and habitats. 
  • Investigating geology. 
  • Understanding seasons and weather patterns. 
  • Learning about magnets. 
  • Learning about the solar system. 

Music

  • Learning about rhythm and movement. 

Art

  • Creating and experimenting with different art mediums. 

Yoga

  • Learning beginner basic yoga poses, such as downward dog, cobra, pretzel, etc. 
  • Embracing the concept of deep breathing, stretching, and relaxing the body. 

Get in Touch 

For more information about our programs, feel free to call or email us. We look forward to hearing from you. 

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So happy I found this school ! My son was a late bloomer for every mile stone. When he first joined he was still in diapers and didn’t say too much. Less than two months he was out of diapers and talking away to everyone. I love how passionate and caring the teachers are. I can’t wait to enroll my daughter next year so she can enjoy the same experience he had!

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