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Pre-Primary environment in AGI Global School includes children ages 2 TO 6 years (preschool and kindergarten). It offers three Pre-Primary rooms, each with a Montessori certified lead teacher, and a Montessori trained assistant. During these years in our school children experience different roles, responsibilities, and perspectives. Young children learn by observing and interacting with the older children. Older children gain a true understanding of concepts by teaching it to their younger peers. Each year, children become more independent, leading up to their last year where they have the unique opportunity to be community leaders and role models.
Our Pre-Primary Classrooms
- A variety of motivating and educational material
- Multi-hour, uninterrupted work time, which supports the young child’s development of concentration and attention span
- Individualized and small group lessons
- Peer-to-peer learning
- Lessons in cooperation and working together
- Class pet
- Food experiences
- Field trips “in school” where community programs, such as firefighters, are invited into the classrooms
- The Montessori Pre-Primary classroom of our school consists of different areas, each containing shelves of works. The shelves are organized with the simplest works at the beginning and the most advanced works at the end. This organization helps set each child up for success.
- Montessori materials are self-correcting, and this encourages children to feel a sense of accomplishment from the very beginning of their educational journey.
- Each area of the classroom in our school has specific concepts/goals for children to learn and achieve.
- The Sensorial area is unique to the Montessori environment . This area “refines the senses” by allowing children to explore works using their sense of touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. This area also supports the development of key concepts such as shape recognition, discrimination of size (big/little), and color recognition.
- Practical Life experiences provided by the school contains “everyday living” works. These works support the young child’s development of concentration, order, coordination, and independence while also refining their fine motor skills.
- Art exposes children to various famous artists in addition to learning skills such as cutting, drawing, painting, sculpting, and collage. There are many opportunities in the Montessori classroom for creative artistic expression.
- The Geography area in the school supports their understanding of the world around them. Young children are fascinated about the world and love learning about different cultures, holidays, traditions, foods, etc. Pre-Primary children are exposed to maps, flags, landforms, animals, language, etc. from all 7 continents.
- In the Science area provided by the school , children learn about the different classifications of animals (birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, dinosaurs, etc.) as well as perform science experiments and learn about botany (flowers, trees, leaves, plants, etc.). Through these hands-on, interactive experiences, children are allowed the opportunity to explore the world around them at their own pace.
- The Language area of our school supports the development of pre-reading skills such as patterning, sequencing, and classifying as well as sound recognition and awareness. Children also learn the phonetic sound each letter makes and composes (writes) words with the Moveable Alphabet.
- Handwriting skills are supported by our educators throughout the entire classroom via hand strengthening works, but also in the Language area through works such as tracing at the light box, writing letters in the cornmeal tray, and journal writing.
- Reading in our school is supported phonetically and through memorization of non-phonetic words. There are a variety of reading materials available for all levels and interests. Books can be found all over the classroom but there are other reading opportunities found in the Reading Corner and at the CD Listening Station.
- The Math area of the Montessori classroom of our school consists of works that support counting quantity, number recognition , graphing, fractions, money, and time, in addition to learning all four mathematical operations (addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division) in concrete, hands-on ways. Like all areas of the Montessori classroom, the Math area has works that can be used in small groups, individually, with a friend, or with a teacher.
