Pre-Kindergarten

The CPE Montessori Chelsea Program offers an age-appropriate developmental curriculum for pre-kindergarten children.

The curriculum is organized into the following learning areas.

• Practical Life Activities: A carefully chosen selection of small-motor activities designed to develop students' independence, coordination, concentration, sense of order, and care for the environment.
• Language Development: Activities that contribute to language development are at the core of the Montessori experience for 3- and 4-year-olds. Language is taught phonetically in order to provide students with the skills for reading as soon as they are ready.
• Sensorial Materials: Self-correcting introductory Montessori materials cultivate students' ability to make accurate judgments and comparisons of size, shape, color, sound, and texture to enable them to become more perceptive and analytical in their observations. These materials prepare the child developmentally for mathematics.
• Mathematics: Montessori math materials enable students to learn about numbers concretely by working with especially designed manipulatives representing quantities.
• Science Exploration: Students' appreciation of nature is enhanced with regular hands-on experiments and exploration.
• Geography and Culture: Cultural diversity, customs, maps, and landforms are studied in our Geography and Culture Room as well as in the classroom.
• Social Emphasis: Children are taught to get along with others and to be respectful of others and their work.

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