Willowwind Preschool Curriculum Map

First Year Second Year

Learners Leaders
Line Time Learns how to be a Consistently sits,
part of a community listens and raises
setting, including hand
sitting, listening and Actively participates in
raising hand songs and finger plays
Practices gross motor Contributes to group
skills through Line discussion
Time activities
Listens and may
participate in songs
and finger plays

Grace and Learns how to greet Consistently greets

Courtesy teachers and friends teachers and friends
Learns how to ask for Consistently uses
objects and assistance language Please and
with language Thank you
Please and Thank Offers to help younger
you students

Practical Life Spends most time in This area is revisited

this area building fine
and gross motor skills
May observe older
students
Materials are designed
for child to transfer
from left to right,
building toward future
writing and skills
Learns Montessori
value Care of
Environment as
as needed as interests
expand into other
areas of the classroom
May introduce
younger children to
these materials
Follows up with more
complete Care of
Environment by
scrubbing, sweeping,
wiping and spraying
floor and tables
 students clean up
materials after
completion of work
cycle

Sensorial Spends significant Materials introduce

time in this area children to new
building fine motor mathematical
skills, particularly understanding,
pincer grasp particularly in
Materials introduce geometry
children to sensory Senses continue to be
skills of differentiating honed through
color, size, weight, extensions on existing
texture, temperature, material
sound and smell
Math Students begin Students may spend
learning quantity and significant time in this
graduate to matching area as mathematical
quantity with numeric interest increases
symbols Children learn the
Building on previously concepts behind
explored Montessori numbers 11-100,
materials with the Red make patterns and
Rods, children are orally dictate
introduced to the Red Visual understanding
and Blue Rods, which of numbers 11-100
help the transition Identifying, reading
from concrete to and writing numbers
abstract into the thousands
Learning is focused on Introduction to
numbers and addition, subtraction,
quantities 0-10 multiplication and
division