The Four Seasons Montessori curriculum is a three year program for 3 year olds, 4 year olds, and children in their kindergarten year. This program encompasses the full integrity of the 3 year cycle of the Montessori pedagogy. The classrooms are carefully designed to provide a stimulating environment using authentic Montessori materials and lessons. Accredited Montessori teachers guide and encourage each child’s natural tendency for curiosity that in turn fosters a life-long love of learning.
“The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.”
Maria Montessori
Dr. Montessori observed that children pass through definite periods of sensitivity for acquiring knowledge and skills. The classrooms at Four Seasons Montessori are organized to facilitate learning in the following areas:
Step 1 – The Observation
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By manipulating the materials, children develop the fine motor control, coordination, concentration and organization that is essential for future work with the more complex academic materials.
Dr. Montessori put great value in the child’s ability to care for oneself. At Four Seasons Montessori your child will gain independence and good work habits, and will learn how to care for oneself and the environment through the work with the Practical Life activities.

At Four Seasons Montessori your child will have the opportunity to do matching and grading activities with the Sensorial materials according to colour, texture, weight, size, shape, sound and smell. Dr. Montessori believed that this process of educating and training the senses to be able to discriminate and appreciate sensory impressions is the beginning of conscious knowledge.

Gradually the rules of grammar are introduced with different games. In parallel, the hand is being prepared for writing with materials designed to perfect the motor skills required to use a writing tool and form letters.
Sometime during the years when a child is in a Montessori class, an exciting thing happens. After working with the materials, a day comes when he realizes that he is able to express his thoughts on paper with a pencil. Dr. Montessori called this phenomena the “explosion into writing.”
When writing begins in this spontaneous way, writing is effortless and fun! Because the child has already learned control, the repetition necessary for developing neatness and style does not tire him.

Young children love to count, taking pleasure in the rhythm and the language of numbers. Dr. Montessori demonstrated that, when children have access to mathematical materials at a young age, they will easily and joyfully assimilate many facts and skills of arithmetic.
At Four Seasons Montessori your child will enjoy the opportunity to manipulate concrete materials that represent various mathematical quantities. The beauty of the coloured beads and lacquered wood number cards invite children to touch and to move them around as they count, separate, share and compare the equipment, learning the basic operations of arithmetic.

Children begin with the study of the globe, then the land and water forms, followed by the continents and individual countries. The materials include colour-coded wood puzzle maps, flags of the world, geography folders with pictures for each continent, and small animal figures.

“The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.”
Maria Montessori

Each classroom supplies a variety of mediums to work with, including: pencils, pastels, scissors, glue, brushes, paint, and different types of paper. Lessons are given in the use of the artists’ tools, introducing the techniques and language of the genre: Shade, tint, tone, palette, brushstroke, collage, crimson, bronze… On the wall hang beautiful reproductions of artwork representative of various artists, eras, countries, and styles.
Special crafts and activities are done for celebrations and thematic topics.

At Four Seasons Montessori we also strive to offer additional opportunities to develop gross motor movement and skills, including dance, yoga and sports. Social interactions and friendships are fostered and strengthened during these shared activities.

During the course of the day, children can venture outside and learn about the care of the outdoor environment: Raking leaves in the fall, planting flowers, herbs and vegetables in the spring and watering, weeding and harvesting in the summer. They can also record their observations and paint pictures at the outdoor easel or paint rocks for the rock garden.
Benefits to the child include: Coordination, balance, agility, self-awareness and self-expression. Hands-on learning fosters a deep-rooted connection to the earth that will last a lifetime.