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The guides and staff at Sankofa Montessori are here to empower every child to build a life of purpose through exploratory learning and growth. We would love to meet your family and hear more about your vision and goals for your child’s education.
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Our Teaching Philosophy
At Sankofa Montessori, our guides foster a student-centered learning environment that awakens curiosity and nurtures the unique developmental needs of each child. We strategically place students in multi-age groupings to build growth mindsets and monitor their individual progress. We consciously care for and integrate the diverse cultures and backgrounds of our students into our learning community and engage families throughout their learning journey.
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Child Centered
Child Centered
The learning in the classroom is guided by each child’s own interests and skill levels. Children in a Montessori classroom move around freely and work independently or with others on tasks of their own choosing. The teacher in a Montessori classroom is a highly trained practitioner and a caring guide who works with each child individually, demonstrating various activities and then giving them space to try it on their own.
Learning Environment
Learning Environment
The classroom is intentionally stocked with materials tailored to the developmental needs of children, including the need to learn through different senses (sight, touch/texture, movement, etc.). The classroom is set up to reflect the individualized learning plan for each child that is based on their unique interests and abilities in addition to their academic outcomes.
Multi-Age Classrooms
Multi-Age Classrooms
The Montessori curriculum is intentionally grouped into three-year cycles, rather than broken out into year-by-year expectations for student learning. This respects the fact that children develop and master academic topics at different speeds. A child begins as a member of the youngest cohort in the room, benefitting from the example set by older children.
Continuous Progress Monitoring
Continuous Progress Monitoring
Montessori instructors are trained to pay close attention to the needs of each child in their classroom, enabling them to provide differentiated instruction. The teacher supports the child’s growth through all areas of the curriculum to ensure that each child is exposed to the full sequence of lessons in each area and provides support and new challenges as needed
The Montessori Primary Curriculum
Montessori has its own curriculum for grades PK3-K. Hands-on materials
Practical Life
- Activities to support independent functioning
Care of self
Care of environment
Grace and courtesy - Step-by-step tasks lay a foundation for the complex processes of mathematics, reading, writing and science
- Activities strengthen the hand and wrist in preparation for writing
Sensorial
- Activities to support the refinement of the senses (vision, hearing, touch, smell and even taste)
- Sorting and grading tasks
- Noticing and naming similarities and differences lays the foundations for science, mathematics, language and the arts
- Activities strengthen the hand and wrist in preparation for writing
Language
- Spoken language and vocabulary development
- Foundations of writing and reading (letter sounds, letter shapes, etc.)
- Writing with the movable alphabet
- Writing by hand
- Reading (words to sentences to books)
Mathematics
- Understanding the numbers 0-10
- Understanding numbers in the teens and tens
- The decimal system: units, tens, hundreds and thousands
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division into the thousands
- Foundations for later studies of fractions, multiples, squaring and cubing, algebra and geometry
Cultural Studies
- Scientific studies include biology and earth science, with a focus on plants and animals
- Geography studies begin with the earth as a whole and move to continents, countries and US states
- World cultures are introduced through pictures, stories and objects
- Art and music are incorporated into everyday activities
Engaging meaningfully with families, because they are experts on how our children can thrive.
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