About Us
Programs
- Mothers Morning Out (infants)
- Transition Class (toddlers)
- Pre-Primary Class (toddlers)
- Primary Class (3-6 year-olds)
- Summer Day Camp
Montessori Method
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Our objectives
In addition to the Montessori curriculum, Highlands has classroom objectives that fall under our Social Studies curriculum:
- Basic needs
- Love
- Respect for others and materials
- Acceptance
- Discipline - what is expected of an individual
- Do for others and with others
- Create
- Respect for diversity
- Goals for play
- Develop self-confidence, feeling of belonging, feeling of security, leadership
- Social Development
- Adjustment of child to group and teacher
- Ability to care for himself
- Physical development
- Motor coordination
- Intellectual development
- Communication
- Development of control
- Self control
- Willingness and ability to accept authority
- Music Goals
- Songs
- Weather and Seasons
- Patriotic
- Animals and Birds
- Farm
- Friends
- Nature
- Nursery Rhymes
- Transportation
- Action Songs
- Safety Songs
- Rhythmic and Creative Activities
- Interperate Kinds of Music
- Walking
- Marching
- Running
- Galloping
- Skipping
- Hopping
- Tip Toe
- Large Movements
- Somersaults
- Cartwheels
- Backbends
- Small Coordinated Movements
- Simple song and dance routines
- Folk dances
- Rhythm Band Instruments
- Interperate Kinds of Music
- Listening Experiences
- Interpretive - mood response
- Creative - impressions
- Body response
- Learning Experiences
- Musical games - oral and written
- Memory - logic and problem solving
- Audio Visual
- Flannel board - recognition
- Puzzles
- Songs
- Cultural Responsibility
- History
- Holidays
- Symbolism and Representations
- Current Events
- Creativity
- Art
- Materials and Mediums
- Expressions
- Drama
- Thinking outside the box, as well as, seeing what is on the inside