Brainy Child Montessori offers a full Montessori curriculum with standard Montessori materials. Here the children learn through hands-on experience and creative exploration. Enhanced learning and social development occur in this multi-age setting. The youngest children observe and interact with the older children. In turn the older children serve as role models and learn responsibility and leadership skills. The materials in each classroom are grouped into 5 major divisions: Language, Math, Science, Sensorial and Practical Life.

 

How Montessori Education Benefits the Child

• learn to take in instructions and make own decisions
• learn to complete a work cycle
• develop confidence, independence and concentration skills
• learn to share, care, love, take turns, control and express emotions etc (character building)
• develop fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination skills
• gain early exposure to phonics and learn to apply phonetic rules in reading
• gain early exposure to the Mandarin language
• develop strong foundation in Maths
• be well-prepared to enter Primary 1

Areas covered in the Montessori Programs
Exercises of Practical Life
The Practical Life section lays the foundation for all other work to be done in the classroom. The activities are everyday tasks that a child needs to learn in order to master the care of self and the environment. Such activities include pouring, sweeping and tidying, as well as grace and courtesy. These materials provide a solid foundation for life.

Sensorial
The goal of the Montessori Sensorial section is to educate the child's senses. This curriculum area contains Montessori-specific materials that help the child refine his or her experience of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. The materials of this section are modeled on scientifically-based concepts, such as metric system dimensions or algebraic formulas. These materials also include manipulatives dealing with size, colour, shape, sound, texture, form, and dimension. As well as helping the children classify concepts, the Sensorial materials provide the groundwork for the development of other skills such as music, math, and language.

Language
Language materials include sandpaper letters teaching the sound of each letter, movable alphabet for composing words and simple sentences, many types of language card exercises, and the metal insets, which develop pencil control necessary for writing. Often our children can be observed sounding out simple words and creating their first stories. Your child develops reading skills by using encoding and decoding methods. Children learn to apply laws like the schwa rules and phonograms. Grammar will also be introduced to the children. Comprehension and composition will be learnt according to the child’s readiness.

 

Mandarin
Mandarin as a second language is also incorporated to give children an early exposure to the language. This helps to cultivate interest and develop a strong foundation necessary to master the required standards before entering primary 1.

Japanese (as a 3rd language)
Children are ready to learn any language they hear. This ability unfortunately decreases with age, therefore the best time to learn a language is when the child is very young. We have incorporated Japanese as a third language into our curriculum. Japanese language is conducted twice a week by a native Japanese teacher.

Mathematics
Mathematical materials emphasize the concepts of number recognition, quantities, linear counting, the decimal system, simple fractions, and beginning lessons in the four operations. Concepts are presented in a very concrete way so that children 3-6 are able to count and work with numbers up to thousands. Children are also able to work together counting the chains, sharing out quantities, and creating large numbers with the "golden beads". These concrete materials show the child the beginnings of what will later become abstract concepts. A firm foundation in the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division will be laid.

Science
Science is an integral element of the Montessori curriculum. Among other things, it represents a way of life: a clear thinking approach to gathering information and problem solving. The scope of the Montessori science curriculum includes a sound introduction to botany, zoology, chemistry, physics, geology and astronomy. The Montessori approach to science cultivates children's fascination with the universe and helps them develop a lifelong interest in observing nature and discovering more about the world in which they live. Simple science experiments will be conducted in class.

Cultural
The topic of Culture Studies integrates and emphasizes a region or population's geography, history, music, art, etc. The children study different areas of the world, and experience concrete examples of that area's language, literature, dress, food, artwork and music, both past and present. This increasingly important area introduces the child to our planet's great diversity of people.

Art and Craft and Music and Movement
Music and movement education are also important parts of the curriculum as well as the Arts. They offer children ways to express themselves, their feelings, experiences and ideas. These activities will help children develop control of their fine and gross-motor movement.

Apart from the Montessori curriculum, Brainy Child Montessori also offers a range of enrichment courses on as we believe that children should be widely exposed to different fields and subjects.