DAVM Curriculum
Toddler Community
Children age 2 years to age three years are placed in a small and an intimate group of twelve to Fifteen children with two trained staff members.
The environment conforms to the physical needs of the children, both in the size of the furnishings and in the opportunities for motor development.
The materials on easily accessible shelves simulate child’s visual discrimination, tactile and auditory senses.
Preschool and Kindergarten Program
Children three years till six years are placed in a group of twenty two to twenty six students, with one lead and one assistant teacher.
The preschool environment unifies the social, physical, and intellectual functioning of the child. In Montessori environment, academic competency is a means to an end, and the manipulative are viewed as “materials for development.”
In the Montessori preschool, five distinct areas constitute the prepared environment:
- Practical life enhances the development of eye-hand coordination, gross motor control, and cognitive order through care of self, care of environment, development of social relations, and coordination of physical movement.
- Sensorial area enables the child to order, classify, and describe sensory impressions in relation to length, width, temperature, mass, color, pitch, etc.
- Mathematics makes use of manipulative materials to enable the child to internalize concepts of numbers, symbol, sequence, operations, and memorization of basic facts.
- Language includes oral language development, written expression, reading, grammar, creative dramatics, and children's literature.
- Cultural activities expose the child to basics in geography, history, life sciences. Music, art, and movement education are part of the integrated cultural curriculum.
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