Programs

Children's Learning World offers programs for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years of age.
The Montessori children are exposed to a full curriculum, which is presented individually or in small groups. The subjects include reading, writing, math, spelling, geometry, botany, zoology, geography, history, physical education, art, music, and drama. Children take part in two performances during the school year. Extracurricular activities are also available throughout the school day.

Half Day - 8:30am to 11:30am
School Hour - 8:30am to 2:30pm
Full Day - 6:30am to 6pm
Full Day Infant/Toddler - 7:30am to 5:30pm

 - Programs are offered 3, 4, or 5 days a week. -

Infant/Toddler Program (6 weeks to 2 years)
Our infant program welcomes children who are at least 6 weeks old. The infant environment is designed to support movement, exploration and a variety of sensorial experiences. This includes materials of different textures, sounds, and form and function. The furniture and materials are low to the ground to encourage children to reach, climb and move as they like. The room is calm, warm and welcoming.

As infants transition from home to our prepared environment, our goal is make this transition as seamless as possible. Teachers partner with parents to learn about each child’s schedule, routine, and personality to ensure that each child feels safe and cared for. Teachers observe, support, and encourage natural development of the child. They serve as a guide and model for parents and children as they explore the environment.

Our toddler program is a natural progression from our infant program. Toddlers are encouraged to acquire self-help skills, growth and independence by using materials that will encourage fine motor and gross motor development. The environment supports the establishment of autonomy, separation and self-directed exploration, toilet learning, etc. The program includes every day living skills, activities for sensorimotor and language development, and exploration with art and science materials that are developmentally appropriate.

Young Child Program (2-3 year old) and Preschool and Kindergarten Program (3-6 year old)

• The Montessori Environment - In the Montessori classroom, the child develops his ability to set up a task, complete it, and return materials to the right area. Through practice in these exercises, the child increases his confidence in his ability and extends his length of concentration through numerous self-correcting didactic materials.
• Practical life - The child is provided with many exercises in “practical life” among which are the bow tying, lacing, buckling, zipping and buttoning exercises. This encourages a child’s self-care routines. Also included are the activities of pouring, scooping, spooning and other fine motor activities.
• Sensorial - As the child works with the Montessori sensorial exercises, he learns to make comparisons – similarities, differences, opposites, and eventually degrees of variation in texture, quantity, color and sound. The repetition of the exercises teaches him to establish order and further extend his knowledge and degree of concentration.
• Language - The child begins his pre-reading and writing skills by the learning sounds by their phonetic sound and tracing the sandpaper letters. As he touches and traces the letter, the teacher voices the appropriate sound (using their most used sound). This natural way of learning sounds/letters prepares the child to read.
• The moveable alphabets allow the child to compose words, and the pronunciation of the component sounds. In the second step, the teacher dictates the words and the child composes them, after which the child soon becomes able to compose the words alone. The child proceeds at his own rate of mastery to the more complicated reading tasks.
• Mathematics - The development of mathematical concepts starts with the sensory materials. Following the mastery of these materials, multiple versions are taught to the child with increased complexity. Montessori designed materials were made to lead the child from concrete academic concepts to abstract principles.

Elementary Program (6-12 year old)
The elementary curriculum is designed to nurture the children’s love of learning. The children are not only developing academic skills, but they are learning to be self-directed, responsible group members who apply their problem-solving strategies to their community.

• The Montessori Environment - In the Montessori classroom, the child continues to develop his ability to set up a task, complete it, and return materials to the right area. The child increases his confidence in his ability and extends his length of concentration through numerous self-correcting didactic materials.
• Sensorial - As the child works with the Montessori sensorial exercises, he learns to make comparisons – similarities, differences, opposites, and eventually degrees of variation in texture, quantity, color and sound. The repetition of the exercises teaches him to establish order and further extend his knowledge and degree of concentration.
• Language - The child advances his reading and writing skills by building words and sentences using phonetics. The child will work through leveled reading books to allow for practice, mastery, and advancement of literacy skills. The child will study grammar, spelling, and mechanics.
• Mathematics - The development of mathematical concepts continues with the sensory materials. As with the younger classes, multiple versions of a concept are taught to the child with increased complexity. Montessori designed materials were made to lead the child from concrete academic concepts to abstract principles. Arithmetic or operations, geometry, spacial reasoning, time, money, and logical reasoning are taught.
• Cultural studies, Science, and Social Science - The child explores integrated zoology, botany, anthropology, geography, geology, physical and life sciences, and art. The child explores the connection of all living things and ways to represent knowledge. The child learns about his civic duty and to be a responsible citizen. Students choreograph and perform a play at the end of the year.