Enrichment Programming
Enriching, diverse, and meaningful experiences play a vital role in your child’s development, yet it can be difficult to fit these opportunities into busy family schedules. Sonnet Montessori offers a range of enrichment activities during the school day, giving your child meaningful learning experiences while allowing you to enjoy more relaxed evenings and weekends together. Offerings vary by location and may include:
- On-Site Field Trips during which your child will meet naturalists, scientists, artists, community guests, and more!
- Second-Language Classes support cognitive and social development and may be included in your program or offered on-site by a vetted and experienced instructor for a separate fee. Learning covers basic, everyday vocabulary, listening and responding, songs and poems, and common themes such as colors and shapes, animals, body parts, family members, weather and seasons, and more. Learn more
- Music Classes support cognitive and social development and may be included in your program or offered on-site by a vetted and experienced instructor for a separate fee. They cover musical vocabulary, rhythm, basic notation, instruments, and world music. Learn more
- Sports Classes to support physical, cognitive and social development offered on-site by a vetted and experienced instructor for a separate fee.
- E-STEM is naturally woven into the Montessori program; our classrooms offer a variety of hands on and engaging “work” (materials) that focus on environmental learning, science, engineering and mathematics. Our lead teachers also incorporate an E-STEM curriculum into circle times and afternoon learning. Learn more
STEM IN THE MONTESSORI CLASSROOM
Beginning with the Practical Life and Sensorial exercises, students in the Children’s House are exposed to the fundamental rules of math and science through the discovery of natural laws and universal truths.
A simple pouring activity on which a young three-year-old works, very concretely proves the scientific method of inquiry, based on observation, inference, and experimentation.
A child may test which four Knobless Cylinders cannot only balance a rectangular prism from the Brown Stairs, but actually get the prism to move – engineering!
Land and Water forms introduce the child to the science of geology.
Through the work with the Golden Bead materials, the children build a strong understanding of the decimal system, the foundation of mathematical operations.
The concrete experience of building the Pythagorean Theorem of A2 + B2 = C2 using the Trinomial Cube, exposes the child to algebra for the first time.
Manipulating didactic materials supports the STEM belief that hands-on learning is necessary for success. This belief is nothing new to the Montessori classroom. Dr. Maria Montessori stated, “The hand is the instrument of the brain.”
