Casa
34 Months To 6 Years Old
The Casa program at My First Montessori School revolves around building and strengthening the foundations learned by the students in the Toddler program. They are encouraged to be independent learners and get a strong grasp of educational materials at their own pace and ability. We maintain a 8:1 student to teacher ratio, while each Casa classroom has Montessori trained teachers and Registered Early Childhood Educators.
What your child will learn
My First Montessori School’s unique Casa program uses the Montessori philosophy along with the Ministry of Education pedagogy on early learning to help children achieve their fullest potential. Please click below to find out more about the domains and skills that the children will work towards.
- Making friends
- Conflict resolution
- Peer group entry skills
- Helping skills
- Co-operation
- Empathy
- Interacting with adults
- Self-concept
- Identity formation
- Self-esteem
- Recognizing and expressing emotions
- Positive attitudes toward learning
- Using verbal & non-verbal communication
- Vocabulary
- Conversing with peers and adults
- Using descriptive language to explain, explore and extend
- Listening to others
- Enjoying literacy
- Phonological awareness
- Reading
- Familiar conventions of print
- Writing skills
- Self-regulation
- Problem solving
- Representation
- Questioning
- Observing
- Collecting and organizing information
- Reflecting and reaching conclusions
- Classifying
- Seriating
- Determining quantity
- Identifying patterns
- Measurement
Gross Motor
- Walking
- Jumping
- Hopping
- Galloping
- Throwing
- Riding
Fine Motor
- Dressing
- Eating
- Tool use
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Casa Curriculum
Children enrolled in the Casa program have the potential and opportunity to work on diverse materials. Our classroom is warm and welcoming, encouraging children to feel supported and enjoy their time at our school. The Montessori style of ‘directing’ rather than ‘teaching’ means that we enhance and nurture the inner ability of each child to learn instinctively.
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Practical Life | Sensorial | Mathematics | Language | Culture |
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Care of Self - Dressing frames - Folding clothes - Polishing - Locks & keys - Sewing | Visual - Cylinder blocks - Pink tower - Brown stairs - Red rods - Binomial cube - Trinomial cube - Geometric cabinet | Numbers to 10 - Number rods - Sandpaper numbers - Spindal box - Numbers and counters | Oral - Identifying sounds - Matching objects and pictures - Rhyming words | Geography - Sandpaper globe - Water & land forms - Puzzle maps - Introducing directions |
Care of Environment - Washing tables - Washing windows - Polishing - Sweeping - Caring for a plant | Tactile (Touch) - Touch boards - Touch tablets - Touch fabrics - Thermic tablets - Mystery bag | Decimal System - Golden beads - Associating quantities and numbers - Matching quantities & numbers - exchanging | Writing - Sandpaper letters - Metal insets - Moveable alphabet - Writing on chalkboard - Placing letters between lines - Writing on paper | Zoology - Living & non-living - Vertebrates & invertebrates - 5 classes of animals |
Grace and Courtesy - Greeting people - Manners - Table manners | Olfactory (Smell) - Smelling bottles | The 4 Operations - Addition - Subtraction - Multiplication - Division - Stamp game - Word problems | Reading - Pink scheme (3 letter phonetic words) - Blue scheme (4-5 letter phonetic words) - Green scheme (phonograms) | Science - Magnetism - Cause & effect - Volume - Light & colour |
Control of Movement - Rolling mats - Walking on a line - Carrying a tray - Transferring with a spoon - Using tongs | Gustatory (Taste) - Taste bottles | Memorization - Small number rods - Snake game - Addition & subtraction charts - Strip board - Multiplication bead board | Part of Speech - Noun and verbs - Grammar - Conjunctions - Prepositions | Botany - Parts of a plant - Parts of a flower seeds |
Focus and Concentration - Lacing - Sorting - Order | Auditory (Sound) - Sound cylinder - Silence game - Montessori bells | Fractions | Sentence Analysis (Structure) | History - Family tree - 4 seasons - Calendar |
Personal Independence | Stereognostic (Touch with Movement) | Time & Money | Composition | French |
Sample Casa Schedule
7:00am - 8:30am | Before School Program | This is a supervised activity period (not Montessori) where children are free to choose from numerous activities set up by the classroom teacher |
8:30am - 10:30am | Montessori Work Period & Morning Snack | Children will explore the prepared environment in the 5 areas of the classroom. They will also be given presentations by the teachers at this time. Individual Snack is available to children up until 10:30am |
10:30am - 11:00am | French & Circle | Using the Montessori philosophy, children develop the French language through music and visual aids. (French classes will be twice a week) |
11:00am - 12:00pm | Outdoor Play | Children will engage in a variety of play that will promote gross and fine motor skills. Children also develop social skills (weather permitting) |
12:00pm - 12:30pm | Lunchtime Preparation | Children wash hands and enjoy a healthy lunch |
12:30pm | Dismissal | Children enroled in the Morning Half Day Program must be picked up at this time. |
12:30pm – 3:00pm | Rest time or Montessori Work Period | Children who do not require a nap are free to find materials from the 5 areas of the classroom they would like to work with. Children waking up after a nap will join the work period. |
3:00pm - 3:15pm | Circle Time | Children engage in songs, themes and culture presentations. |
3:15pm - 3:45pm | Afternoon Group Snack | Children help prepare the snack table and enjoy a healthy snack as a group |
3:45pm - 4:15pm | Specialty Programs | These activities will include art, dance, yoga, martial arts, and physical education. |
4:15pm | Dismissal/After School Program Begins | Children not enroled in the After-School Program must be picked up at this time. |
4:15pm - 5:15pm | Outdoor Play | Children will engage in a variety of play that will promote gross and fine motor skills. Children also develop social skills (weather permitting) |
5:15pm - 6:00pm | Free Play & Evening Snack | Teachers develop a program for children which includes free play, drama, blocks etc. Children will enjoy a variety of activities they can work at as a group to further develop their social skills. A light snack will be provided. |