Enrichment
Spanish
Following each child's interests, as well as building upon the Spanish-enriched curriculum at the Children's House Level, is the focus of the Spanish enrichment program. Using hands-on activities, songs, dance, and visual aids, your Kindergartener is building up confidence in the four primary areas of language fluency: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Kindergarteners will move up to Elementary Spanish having been exposed to a large scope of Spanish vocabulary, including colors, numbers, animals, simples phrases, and more. In addition to language, students learn about the rich and varied cultures of Spanish-speaking people through the experiental learning a Montessori environment provides.
Art
Through a curriculum designed around seasons, events, culturally significant holidays from around the world, and exposure to artists of marginalized identities, your child will have the opportunity each class to create meaningful art through a variety of mediums. Kindergarten art at Amherst Montessori is hands-on, environmentally and culturally focused, and always follows the child's interests.
Art from our Kindergarten enrichment class adorns the walls and bulletin boards all around the school, brightening up the stairwells with colorful collages and greeting visitors in the entryway with hanging mobiles made from natural materials. The hard work of both Kindergarten and Elementary students goes on display at the end of the year at the Art and Music Show in May.
Homesteading
How can our home and school environments, both indoors and outside, reflect our innermost creativity and uniqueness? In this class, Kindergarteners will explore what it means to be an active participant in our home and school environments through crafting, creating, moving, and making.
Students engage in projects such as bookbinding, drying herbs grown in the school garden, foraging, identifying plants, building structures out of materials found in the surrounding woods, sewing and weaving, and much more.