Our Curriculum

The following is the Montessori Preschool curriculum for 3-6 yrs old that AtoZ Preschool follows.

Practical Life

  • Dressing independently
  • Dressing frames
  • Exercises for increasing sense of order:
    • Movement from left to right
    • Completion of activities
    • Returning activities to shelf
  • Exercises for increasing ability to concentrate
  • Exercises for control of movement:
    • Gross and fine motor
    • Hand-to-eye coordination
  • Sort Cutlery
  • Open and Close Lids
  • Screw and Unscrew Lids
  • Sponge Transfer
  • Wash Vegetables and Fruits
  • Fold Napkins with Napkin Rings
  • Cut a Piece of Bread
  • Butter a Piece of Bread (3.5 y/o)
  • Squeezing oranges
  • Sort Beans
  • Pour Grains, Beans, Rice, Salt
  • Spoon Grains, Rice,

Language Arts

  • Oral expression:
    • Listening
    • Communication skills that include adequate verbal expression
    • Vocabulary enrichment
    • Speaking in front of peers
    • Show and Tell
  • Reading:
    • Phonetic sounds and names of letters
    • Word building skills
    • Decoding 3- to 4-letter words
    • Sight words
  • Literature discussions:
    • Listening skills
    • Read-aloud sessions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
    • Creative stories
  • Writing:
    • Simple compositions
    • Pencil control
    • Letter formation
    • Writing First and Last name (3-6)
    • Printed words in Classroom
  • 3- part card (matching pictures and words)
  • Language Mystery bags

Science

  • Classification:
    • Living and nonliving
    • Vertebrate and invertebrate
  • Weather
  • Human body
  • Life cycle ( Butterfly)
  • Nutrition
  • Magnetic and nonmagnetic
  • Space and solar systems
  • Rocks/minerals
  • Sink and float

(Botany)

  • Introducing the Plant
  • Parts of the Plant
  • Part of the leaf
  • Parts of the Flower
  • Parts of the Fruit
  • Parts of the Seed

(Zoology)

  • The Fish
  • The Frog

Manners / Courtesy

  • Respect for self
  • Respect for peers
  • Respect for adults
  • Manners
  • Classroom rules
  • Meal etiquette
  • Introduction and greetings

Fine Arts

  • Drawing
  • Sponge Painting
  • Painting Objects – Seashells, Pine cones, Sticks, Rocks
  • Rubbings
  • Stickers & Tape Resist Painting
  • Stamping
  • Unwinding and Winding Yarn
  • Dropper activities
  • Lacing
  • Tearing Tissue Paper
  • Cutting with Scissors
  • Gluing
  • Mix Colored Water
  • Clothes pin tong activities

 

Motor Skills

  • Body control and coordination in and out of the classroom
  • Roll a Mat and Put it Away
  • Walk Around the Mat
  • Carry a Chair
  • Carry Objects on a Tray
  • Carry Liquids on a Tray
  • Stacking a Tower with Blocks or Nesting

Life Skills

  • Insert Batteries into a Flashlight
  • Learning Home Address & Phone Number (3 y/o)
  • Matching Locks & Keys
  • Wooden Hammer & Pegs
  • Recycling
  • Hammering Nails (4 y/o)

History / Geography

  • The calendar
  • Days of the week
  • Months of the year
  • Seasons
  • Telling time to the hour
  • Day in the life
  • Globe as Earth’s shape
  • Continents/countries
  • Flag study
  • Land and water forms
  • Map-making skills
  • Oceans
  • Festivals around the world

Math

  • Sorting and counting games
  • Number rod
  • Sandpaper Numbers
  • Number recognition
  • Number Formation
  • Concrete materials to explore place value:
    • Units
    • Tens
    • Hundreds
    • Thousands
  • Concrete materials to perform operations:
  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Written numerals 1-100
  • Skip counting 2s 5s and 10s
  • Even and odd numbers
  • Fractions
  • Measurement
  • Simple money

Sensorial

  • Identification, comparison, gradation of colors, shapes, sounds, and sizes:
  • Smelling Bottles
  • Touch boards
  • Color cards
  • Sound Cylinder
    • Hand-to-eye coordination
  • Weight, temperature
  • Dimension – length, width, height

Arabic

  • Basic vocabulary:
  • Animals
  • Family members
  • Colors
  • Clothing
  • Arabic Letters Recognition and Formation
  • Arabic songs