At Montessori Dual Language Academy, our Early Childhood program is designed to nurture the whole child — fostering curiosity, independence, confidence, and compassion.
The Montessori classroom offers five main areas of study: Practical Life, Sensorial, Mathematics, Language, and Cultural Studies.
Each area builds on the others, allowing children to explore concepts at their own pace and make meaningful connections between their learning and everyday life.
Children learn essential daily-life skills such as dressing themselves, preparing snacks, setting the table, and caring for plants and animals. They also practice social graces like saying please and thank you, being kind and helpful, listening attentively, and resolving conflicts peacefully.
These activities strengthen fine- and gross-motor coordination while building independence, concentration, and a sense of responsibility — important foundations for all future learning.
Sensorial lessons refine children’s ability to observe, compare, and categorize the world around them. Using their senses, children explore concepts like size, color, texture, weight, and sound. For example, they might learn to distinguish between rough and smooth by touch or high and low by sound.
This type of exploration helps children create mental order and lays the groundwork for understanding abstract concepts in math, geometry, and language.
Montessori math materials transform abstract ideas into tangible experiences. Through hands-on exploration, children learn to identify numbers, associate them with quantities, understand place value, and grasp operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
By manipulating concrete materials like number rods, beads, and golden units, children discover mathematical patterns and relationships for themselves. They don’t just memorize — they truly understand what numbers mean.
Language development is at the heart of our dual-language program. During the morning work cycle, children are immersed in Spanish, while English instruction begins after 1:30 PM.
Children expand their vocabulary, strengthen listening and speaking skills, and develop a love for reading and writing. Using phonetic materials, sandpaper letters, and moveable alphabets, children learn sounds, word-building, and sentence composition. Writing is introduced before reading — allowing children to naturally transition into fluent reading when they are ready.
The cultural area integrates geography, history, science, art, and music — helping children explore the beauty and diversity of the world. They learn about people, places, animals, and environments across the globe while developing appreciation and respect for different cultures and traditions.
Through these lessons, children begin to see themselves as part of a global community, learning empathy, gratitude, and stewardship for the Earth and all living things.
Montessori materials are intentionally designed to be beautiful, purposeful, and self-correcting. Each material isolates one specific concept so the child can focus, explore, and master it independently.
If an activity isn’t completed correctly, the material itself reveals the error — allowing the child to self-correct and try again. For instance, a tower stacked out of order will fall, prompting the child to adjust without adult intervention.
This process nurtures confidence, problem-solving, and critical thinking. Children become their own teachers — developing the lifelong skill of learning through curiosity and persistence.