Montessori Preschool Curriculum

Preschool students at Hilltop Montessori study practical life skills, sensorial skills, language skills, math, science, and history. After lunch, students are regrouped by age. While many three and four year olds go home at 12 or 1, kindergarten students remain for additional studies.

Specific Objectives for Preschool History
1.00 Studies of time
     1.10 Timeline of Earth
          1.10.1 Introduction to the eras:
          Archeozoic, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic
     1.20 Introduction to peoples/ events within a timeline
          1.20.1 Ancient Civilizations: Incan, Myan, Greek, Roman, etc.
          1.20.2 Native Americans
          1.20.3 New World
          1.20.4 Explorers
          1.20.5 American History
               1.20.5a Names of the US Presidents
     1.30 Introduction to personal timeline
          1.30.1 Family history/generations
          1.30.2 Child’s timeline
               1.30.2a Celebration of child’s birthday
2.00 Measures of time
     2.10 Days to weeks to months to year
     2.20 Calendar
     2.30 Timeline, passage of days from infancy to senior
     2.40 Seasons
     2.50 Telling time: analog