Expectation Comparison

Curriculum Expectations Upon Completion of the Kindergarten Year at the Public School Kindergarten

When your child leaves a public school kindergarten, he/she has been presented the following:

Math:
-knows colors, shapes and sizes.
-knows meaning of: in, on, top, bottom, over, under, from, back, between and others
-recognizes numerals: 0-10, 11-20, 21-30
-knows telephone number
-knows address
-understands sets of 0-10
-understands counting from a number
-writes numerals 0-10
-has practiced 11-31

Fine Arts:
-participates in art activities
-creates original pictures and ideas using various media

Social Growth and Work Habits:
-uses work/play time constructively
-cares for and puts away materials
-shares and takes turns with play and work materials
-demonstrates ability to listen and follow directions
-controls emotions
-shows self-confidence

Motor Development:
-demonstrates ability to walk, run, hop and gallop
-shows coordination in games and activities
-catches and bounces a ball
-moves to a given mark and back
-colors within lines
-cuts on various given lines
-holds a crayon, pencil and scissors correctly
-ties shoes
-participates in block play

Curriculum Expectations Upon Completion of the Kindergarten Year at the Montessori Educational Centers

When your child leaves a Montessori kindergarten, he/she has been presented the following:

Math:
-all areas in the traditional program as well as:
*a concrete understanding of the base ten system, addition and subtraction.
*introduced to the concepts of multiplication, geometric solids, parts of a triangle, circle and types of lines.

Fine Arts:
-all areas in a traditional program as well as:
*development of fine motor movements for drawing, writing, cutting, etc. through the practical living exercises of scrubbing, polishing, and pouring exercises; the sensorial area of blocks, movement and tracing activities
*a sense of color and shape discrimination and refinement
*a sense of orderliness and beauty in the world that is developed through the orderliness and beauty in the Montessori environment and materials

Social Growth and Work Habits:
-all the areas in a traditional program as well as:
*a development of the individual as a social being, knowledge of social graces and courtesies

Motor Development:
-all the areas in the traditional program as well as:
*development of small motor skills through use of refined pouring skills, knobbed work that strengthens the pencil grip, tracing activities and the philosophy of the classroom that what comes into the mind must first come through the senses.