Elementary Grades 1-6
At the end of elementary school, Montessori children wrote more creative essays with more complex sentence structures, selected more positive responses to social dilemmas, and reported feeling more of a sense of community at their school.
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The Montessori elementary experience responds to the child’s expanding view of the universe. Many new materials are introduced as the child enters into more abstract thinking. Their developing imagination embraces concepts larger than their immediate environment. The elementary curriculum is interdisciplinary, allowing science, social studies, the arts, language, math and foreign language converging in studies guided by the child’s own questions. Emphasis is placed on the connections between the different areas of study, not on the mere presentations of detail.
The Montessori Elementary Community: Grades 1 - 6
