Montessori Academy of Upland - Programs, Classrooms

has five main areas: practical life, sensorial, language, math, and culture. The emphasis is on children learning to be independent in their most immediate worlds, their classrooms, and their homes. Physical education, arts and crafts, and outdoor play are included in the day.

responds to the ever-widening intellectual interests of the student. The classroom work emphasizes basic skills and encourages the children to understand abstract concepts and to think critically. Skills are developed in all academic areas - mathematics, language, phonics, geometry, geography, biology, drama, art, music, and literature, with freedom of choice that encourages a depth to their work not usually seen in students of this age.

Has revealed the small child a lover of physical and intellectual work which is spontaneously chosen and carried out with delight.

Is based on the child's need to learn by doing.

Offers spontaneity, but nevertheless enables the child to reach high levels of scholastic achievements.

Is based on a profound respect of the child's personality, thus leaving the child room to grow in biological independence.

Enables the teacher to deal with the child individually in each subject.

Allows the child to complete work at their own pace. Hence, the quick is not held back by the slow, and the slow is not overlooked.

Does away with any unhealthy competative spirit and, at every turn, presents endless opportunities among the children for mutual help and cooperation.

* Develops the whole personality of the child, not merely the intellectual faculties, but also the powers of diliberation, initiative, and independent voice, with appropriate emotional compliments. By living as a free member of a real social community, the child is trained in those fundamental social qualities which form the basis of good citizenship.