Our Elementary School Program
The Elementary program is for students from 6 to 12 years old and is organized into two multi-year cycles: Lower Elementary for 6 to 9-year-olds and Upper Elementary for 9 to 11-year-olds. As in the Primary classes, students spend multiple years in the same classroom, building community with one another and deepening relationships with teachers. Elementary-aged children continue to learn using concrete materials as they move gradually toward increasingly abstract thinking. The Elementary lessons and materials are multi-sensory, dramatic, and impressionistic, serving to ignite the imagination and curiosity of the students.
The spiral curriculum of the Montessori classroom exposes students to many interrelated topics repeatedly over time. With each repetition, children build on the knowledge they already have about a topic, delving deeper into the details, seeing the connections more clearly, and ultimately developing a deep understanding of our complex world. The core of the Montessori Elementary curriculum is known as “Cosmic Education” and includes profound lessons, such as the origin of the universe, life on Earth, the emergence of humans, and the history of math and writing.