The Extended Day Program
Traditionally, Montessori education
provides an extended day program for the 5 and 6 year old children.
The extra hours spent in the environment provide a unique transitional
period for the longer hours of first grade.
During the extended day, the children
will be involved with advanced presentations in math, language, art,
music, geography and other work that the younger children are not interested
in or do not have the attention span for. It is expected that these
children will assume greater responsibility for self-directed activity
and independent work. The children will also go on field trips.
In the Montessori Environment, the
older children are encouraged to interact with the younger children
as an integral part of the learning experience. It is also important
for the older children to recognize their differences and levels of
independence from the younger group. The extended day reinforces their
self-esteem and confidence. The extended day also gives the three and
four year olds something to look forward to.
The extended day program will take
place Monday through Thursday from 12 noon until 2 p.m. Each child should
bring a well-balanced lunch (no soft drinks) and we will enjoy lunch
together as soon as the other children have left.
Curriculum Objectives
& Learning Expectations
General Knowledge: |
1. Know how to call for help
2. Uses of plants, animals, factories, other...
3. Uses of the library; getting a library card
4. Uses of food preparation; where does food come from
5. Transportation systems
6. General occupations
7. Full name of student and parents
8. Address and telephone number |
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Introduction to the Computer: |
1. Vocabulary - The parts of
2. Simple mechanics
3. Care of components
4. Uses of
5. Simple word processing |
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| Physical Education: |
1. Hopping
2. Skipping
3. Jumping Rope
4. Walking in time
5. Balancing
6. Throwing
7. Catching
8. Bouncing a ball |
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| Geography: |
1. Know address and telephone number
2. Know cardinal direction - North, South, East, West
3. Know North Pole, South Pole, Equator
4. Introduction to the globe: land/water - political
5. Introduction to the hemispheres
6. Introduction to the elements of the earth (gas, land, water)
7. Name and identify the continents
8. Introduction to the layers of the earth
9. Introduction to land forms; island, lake, bay, etc... |
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Science:
Biology / Zoology |
1. Sort and classify plant, animal, and mineral
2. Awareness of what plants and animals need for life
3. Parts of a tree, flower and leaf
4. Introduction to a habitat
5. Observe and identify how environments are alike and different
6. Introduction to ecology, conservation, and recycling
7. Observe that the physical form of an object can change
8. Introduction to magnets
9. Introduction to sink and float - the properties of objects
10. Identify and classify according to characteristics: amphibians,
reptiles,
birds, mammals
11. Introduction to vertebrates and invertebrates |
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| Emotional & Social: |
1. Accepts responsibility for own behavior
2. Follows oral directions (one, two, and three step)
3. Controls movements
4. Participates cooperatively in large and small groups
5. Works independently
6. Respects self and others
7. Takes responsibility for personal belongings |
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| Language: |
1. Develops good communication skills, receptive and expressive
language
2. Develops good listening skills through a variety of experiences
3. Processing of the main idea of a story
4. Understanding sequencing in a story
5. Being able to draw conclusions
6. Knowledge of fact and fiction
7. Sing songs and or act out nursery rhymes
8. Dictate an original sentence or story to an adult
9. Recognize the title, author, and illustrator of a book
10. Know the phonetic sounds and the names of all the letters
11. Introduced to digraphs, long vowel sounds, and irregular spelling
12. Recognize upper and lower case letters
13. Recognize vowels
14. Ability to blend 3 to 4 letter phonetic works
15. Recognize set 1 of puzzle or sight words
16. Write all letters, upper and lower case
17. Write first and last name
18. Express simple ideas using invented spelling
19. Use spatial, directional, and other relationship words
20. Participate in language experience activities
21. Introduction to Word Function Study - Grammar |
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| Mathematics: |
1. Understanding of sets
2. One to one correspondence - 1-20
3. Recognize numbers - 1-20
4. Writing numerals - 1-20
5. Oral counting to 100, skip counting by 10's, 5's and 2's to
100
6. Place value with Golden Bead material
7. Building composite numbers to 9999
8. Recognize and reproduce the circle, square, rectangle, triangle,
and parallelogram
9. Identify 1st - 10th ordinal positions
10. Fill in the missing numbers in a written sequence
11. Make and understand picture and or bar graphs
12. Identify objects in the first, middle or last position |
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| Functions of Number Concepts: |
1. Introduction to a ruler: measure and compare lengths
2. Introduction to a scale: purpose and function
3. Introduction to a clock: seconds, minutes, hours, 24 hour
4. Temporal relations: which of two events requires more time to
complete
5. Introduction to money: penny, nickel, dime, quarter
6. Using manipulatives to answer oral word problems |
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