Curricular Objectives

GIMS offers an educational program that has been used with excellence around the world during the past 100 years, based on the guidelines of Maria Montessori. We follow this educational program for Language Arts, Maths, Science, Practical Life and Sensorial, and we added the areas of Physical Education, Social Skills and Art. Our curriculum objectives are the following:

- Language arts:

- - - 1-3 years of age:
      - To develop and expand vocabulary related to Nature, familiar objects, family, clothes, colours
        
        To practice basic counting
        
        To recognise and name different farm animals
        
        To name familiar objects
        
        To become aware of numbers
        
        To name most of the external parts of the human body
        
        To name external parts of the horse
        
        To name external parts of the bird
        
        To recognise and practice phonetic sounds
        
        To become familiar with the names of numbers and with what they represent
        
        To organise information by category
        
        To develop pre-writing skills
        
        To develop pre-reading skills
        
        To practice listening skills
        
        To use creativity and imagination to create stories
        
        To start understanding the concepts of addition and subtraction
    - 3-6 years of age:
      - To practice pre-writing skills
        
        To recognise small letters and capital letters
        
        To place letters on line
        
        To name objects that start with the same letter/sound
        
        To read in both English and Spanish
        
        To recognise different parts of the sentence: name, article, adjective and verb
        
        To write in both English and Spanish
        
        To develop creative writing
        
        To create a story from an image
        
        To recite poetry

- Mathematics:

- - - 1-3 years of age (implicit in other areas of the curriculum, such as Language or Sensorial)
    - 3-6 years of age:
      - To comprehend mathematical concepts: weight
        
        To comprehend mathematical concepts: size
        
        To comprehend mathematical concepts: length
        
        To comprehend mathematical concepts: shape
        
        To comprehend mathematical concepts: quantity
        
        To make quantities
        
        To recognise the numerical symbols 1 to 9
        
        To understand algebraic binomial formulas
        
        To recognise the numerical symbols 10 to 19
        
        To form numerals
        
        To understand algebraic trinomial formulas
        
        To introduce the decimal system
        
        To learn multiples of ten, from 10 to 90
        
        The hundreds, from 100 to 900
        
        To learn numbers 0 to 9999
        
        The Four Operations: Addition
        
        The Four Operations: Subtraction,
        
        The Four Operations: Multiplication
        
        The Four Operations: Division
        
        Exchange between systems

- Physical Education:

- - - 1-3 years of age:
      - To develop hand-eye coordination
        
        To develop the ability to organise the space
        
        Different ways to move in the space: Walking, jumping, tip-toeing, walking sideways
        
        To fortalice muscles in hands and fingers in preparation for writing
        
        To practice fine and gross motor skills
        
        To practice moving without disturbing others
        
        To climb a climbing wall
        
        To go up and down stairs
        
        To walk on balance beam
        
        To walk holding an object
    - – 3-6 years of age:
      - To jump with two feet together
        
        To walk backwards
        
        To skip a rope
        
        To hop on one foot
        
        To bounce a ball
        
        To play basketball
        
        To control breathing
        
        To sort obstacles
        
        To climb a ladder
        
        To run
        
        To kick a ball

- Social skills:

- - - 1-3 years of age:
      - To observe reactions
        
        To develop concentration
        
        To recognise and imitate facial expressions
        
        To imitate body movements
        
        To understand a follow instructions
        
        To recognise and identify others
        
        To recognise and name own emotions and in others
    - 3-6 years of age:
      - To create music in group
        
        To practice behaviours taking into account others
        
        To practice taking turns
        
        To say “no” assertively
        
        To introduce oneself to a group of people
        
        To work with others for a common objective
        
        To develop good manners
        
        To practice interactions with others
        
        To share materials
        
        To extend the social skills
        
        To expand the sense of community
        
        To practice grace and courtesy

- Practical life:

- - - 1-2 years of age:
      - To place and manipulate a working mat
        
        To develop fine motor skills
        
        To contribute to the order in the school
        
        To expand the ability to concentrate
        
        To match utensils
        
        To cut food in shapes
        
        To develop a routine of self care
        
        To pour liquid from a container to another
        
        To serve food and drink independently
        
        To place plates on the table
        
        To fasten and unfasten clothes with velcro
        
        To use utensils for cutting
        
        To plan and prepare simple snacks
        
        To dissemble and reassemble
        
        To practice the motions in wrist and hand necessary for the posterior writing
        
        To develop self-esteem and independency
        
        To expand concentration
        
        To follow a series of steps
    - 3-6 years of age:
      - To roll and unroll a mat
        
        To walk around a mat
        
        To move a chair
        
        To walk on the line
        
        To carry a tray
        
        To wipe up a spill
        
        To pour solids and liquid
        
        To transfer solids with the pincer grasp, a spoon, tongs, tweezers
        
        To transfer water with a sponge, a ladle, a bulb baster, an eyedropper, a suction cup
        
        To open and close containers with different types of lids
        
        To wash hands
        
        To clean fingernails
        
        To fasten and unfasten clothes with buttons, snaps, zip, hook and eye, belt, bow, lace
        
        To role socks
        
        To polish shoes
        
        To use different types of locks and keys
        
        To sweep, to mop, to rake
        
        To hang clothes using clothespins
        
        To wash a table and a mirror
        
        To care for a plant
        
        To plant a seed
        
        To sort cutlery
        
        To set a table
        
        To use a rotary egg beater
        
        To sift
        
        To use a rolling pin and cookie cutters
        
        To sort objects for recycling
        
        To fasten nuts and bolts
        
        To greet people
        
        To draw a person’s attention
        
        To say please, thank you and welcome
        
        To offer food to others
        
        To blow one’s nose
        
        To cough and sneeze
        
        To pack an overnight bag
        
        To make orange juice
        
        To peel and chop carrots
        
        To hammer nails
        
        To wrap a present
        
        To sew a button
        
        To answer the telephone
        
        To effectively call 112

- Sensorial:

- - - 1-2 years of age:
      - To explore “hot” and “cold”
        
        To name, identify and match colours
        
        To identify objects by feel
        
        To match objects by pattern and texture
        
        To work with plasticine
        
        To experience and identify different sounds
        
        To experience and identify different smells
    - 3-6 years of age:
      - To develop visual discrimination
        
        To develop auditory discrimination
        
        To increase the vocabulary related to senses
        
        To promote the left-to-right movement
        
        To develop the progression top-to-bottom
        
        To increase attention
        
        To develop the hand-eye coordination
        
        To understand relative size, weight and volume
        
        To discover properties such as hight, width, length, area, volume, composition, texture, temperature, weight, shape, tone, smell and taste
        
        To develop the stereognostic sense
        
        To develop the thermic sense
        
        To become aware of the kinestesic and muscular senses

- Science:

- - - 1-3 years of age (implicit in other areas):
      - Costumes
        
        Traditions around the world
        
        International gastronomy
        
        Art around the world
        
        Farm animals
        
        The big cats
        
        Means of transport
        
        Wild animals
        
        Insects
        
        Mammals
        
        External parts of the human body
        
        External parts of insects
    - 3-6 years of age:
      - The Three Elements
        
        To explore land a water forms
        
        To explore the Globe: To distinguish continents and oceans.
        
        To memorise continents, countries and oceans
        
        To learn where home is in an Atlas
        
        To explore life in different countries
        
        To learn flags of the World
        
        To match national anthems to flags
        
        To recite the months and the seasons
        
        To create a family tree
        
        To understand living and non-living things
        
        To learn the part of the plant
        
        To classify vertebrates and invertebrates
        
        To care for a pet animal
        
        To match animals with continents
        
        To classify fish
        
        To learn the external parts of the fish
        
        To classify amphibians
        
        To learn the external parts of the frog
        
        To classify reptiles
        
        To learn the external parts of the turtle
        
        To classify birds
        
        To learn the external parts of birds
        
        To classify horses
        
        To learn the external parts of horses
        
        To explore parts of the root
        
        To explore parts of the stem
        
        To explore parts of the leaf
        
        To explore parts of the flower
        
        To explore parts of the fruit
        
        To explore magnetism
        
        To experience buoyancy
        
        To understand timelines
        
        To explore the seasons
        
        To explore parts of the seed
        
        To explore density
        
        To explore volume
        
        To explore solutions
        
        To explore evaporation
        
        To explore chemical reactions
        
        To explore light and colour
        
        To understand the movement of the Solar System

- Art:

- - - 1-3 years of age:
      - To identify different textures
        
        To represent visual, auditive and motor sensations
        
        To investigate perception and spatial awareness
        
        To explore and observe the surroundings
        
        To cut different patterns
        
        To develop sensorimotor coordination with the objective of using and looking after the tools
        
        To create a painting by using watercolour, stamps, paint, markers, colouring pencils
        
        To create a collage
        
        To create a statue with clay
        
        To use glue
        
        To dance with neck scarves
        
        To do freeze dance
        
        To dance slowly and fast
        
        To experiment maracas, drum, Chinese box, rain drum
    - 3-6 years of age:
      - To identify different textures
        
        To represent visual, auditive and motor sensations
        
        To investigate perception and spatial awareness
        
        To participate in the planning and developing of the process of creating art
        
        To actively participate in the creation of material
        
        To create a statue with clay
        
        To follow patterns
        
        To create a colour wheel
        
        To explore and observe the surroundings
        
        To create a painting using watercolour, stamps, markers, colouring pencils
        
        To explore different painting techniques
        
        To use the easel
        
        To practice threading
        
        To play the Montessori bells
        
        To dance to the rhythm
        
        To sing
        
        To match bells (notes)
        
        To clap at the rhythm of the music
        
        To explore the triangle
        
        To explore the musical sticks
        
        To explore the kazoo
        
        To explore the maracas
        
        To explore the timbal
        
        To explore the rain sticks
        
        To create an orchestra
        
        To play the whistle
        
        To differentiate different string, wood, percussion, wind and tin instruments by image and by sound
        
        To dance on a line
        
        To dance to folk
        
        To interpret by dancing

This abilities are practiced according to each child’s readiness and aimed to the school’s mission of statement: to help children to be able to investigate critically, examine processes and to achieve desired results, autonomously and as part of a group.

The school has all the needed Montessori and non-Montessori material to achieve theses curricular objectives. The staff at GMS has completed the adequate training, have vast experience in Montessori education and follow a training schedule created by this school.

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