This program provides students with the experience of reading for meaning. As they work through a series of short stories during story time, students explore the meaning or greater questions underlying different elements of the story or its characters. There is no right or wrong answer while exploring books. The outcome is that children learn to develop their own answers, share them, and perhaps adapt their own point of view once they have heard from another perspective.

 

Students will begin to move from inventive (phonetic) spelling, where the focus is on promoting a love of writing their name and the ability to communicate about ideas, to a more refined use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. Children will learn to edit their own work, as well as that of their peers the Montessori way. These skills will also be further developed as the students pursue cultural studies, while working in the areas of geography, history, art, food, music etc.

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