Each Montessori program is comprised of a three-year cycle. In their first year, children act as explorers. They are exposed to new information and skills. They investigate their classroom and keep a close eye on the older students to follow their example. When they enter their second year, students with one year under their belt become experimenters. They know the material and find ways to dig deeper, often with their peers. In their third year, these capstone students are the experts. They research and report confidently while taking on a leadership role in the classroom.

Upper Elementary Outcomes

Life Skills - Personal Development

  • Follow classroom rules and directions

  • Demonstrate attentiveness during lessons

  • Participate and lead discussions

  • Work independently

  • Manage time effectively 

  • Work cooperatively and productively with others 

  • Pursue tasks to completion 

  • Organize work and materials 

  • Accept constructive criticism 

  • Help create a collaborative and scholarly class atmosphere 

  • Initiate appropriate and challenging work

  • Demonstrate curiosity and awareness


Life Skills - Social Development

  • Cooperate with peers and adults

  • Demonstrate respectful behavior 

  • Offer support to others

  • Advocate and communicate needs effectively 

  • Exhibit conflict resolution skills 

  • Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability

  • Express emotions appropriately 

  • Demonstrate self-confidence 

  • Act with forethought; control impulsivity 

  • Accept responsibility for actions 

  • Show a positive attitude and encourage classmates 

  • Understand the importance of community

English Language

  • Communicate details in an organized, sequential manner

  • Use age-appropriate articulation and verbal expression

  • Use a dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia properly

  • Read and write in cursive

  • Use proper punctuation and capitalization 

  • Analyze the grammatical parts of a sentence

  • Identify words in study (compound words, affixes, synonyms, antonyms, homophones)

Reading

  • Demonstrate comprehension of reading material through oral and written work

  • Read orally with fluency at grade level

  • Read and distinguish between a variety of literary genres

Writing

  • Engage creative writing tools for poetry writing 

  • Conduct research using research tools

  • Understand and demonstrate the writing process with note-taking, rough draft, and editing 

  • Create narrative and report writing 

  • Produce a bibliography and cite sources

  • Execute oral presentations

Mathematics

  • Understand numeration and place value 

  • Demonstrate math fact fluency

  • Demonstrate abstract addition/subtraction/multiplication and division with whole numbers 

  • Understand the order of operations

  • Round numbers and estimates

  • Apply problem-solving strategies through word problems 

  • Demonstrate mastery of fractions: equivalence/simplifying, and all operations

  • Demonstrate mastery of decimals: all operations, conversions with decimals and fractions, percentage 

  • Demonstrate use of all operations of negative numbers

  • Demonstrate the use of measurement: linear, mass, volume, temperature, money

  • Demonstrate the use of graphs: line graphs, bar graphs, circle graphs

  • Demonstrate the use of writing algebraic expressions solving 2 step equations, graphing ordered pairs (pre-algebra)

  • Demonstrate the use of exponents: powers of 2, 3, and 10, add, subtract, multiply, divide, rules of powers

  • Demonstrate squaring & cubing: notation of squares and cubes, squaring a sum, cubing a binomial and trinomial, square root, cube root

Cultural Arts

History

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the history of the universe/ geological periods 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental needs of human beings 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of early human history 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of world history - civilization, conflicts, and culture 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of United States History 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the different types of government 

Geography

  • Demonstrate the use of geographic reference materials

  • Demonstrate knowledge of political geography 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of physical geography-topographical features 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of economic geography- production and consumption 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the Solar System 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of Earth Science: geology, oceanography, meteorology, environmental science

  • Demonstrate knowledge of Physical Science (chemistry and physics): the periodic table, atomic structure, forces of motion, energy, simple machines

Science

  • Complete the presentation of the Timeline of Life

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the introduction to the five animal kingdoms 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of animal classification

  • Demonstrate knowledge of plant classification 

  • Understand the human body systems and their functions

  • Demonstrate understanding of Ecology: characteristics of life, evolution, and adaptation

  • Demonstrate the use and care of a microscope 

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the scientific method to carry out experiments

  • Understand cells: cell structure of animal and plant cells

Fine Arts

  • Recognizes the periods of Art: Renaissance, Gothic, Romantic

  • Produce oral and written expression about personal artwork

  • Identify the elements of art design: line, shape, perspective, value, color, texture

  • Use a variety of media: pencil, pastel, acrylic, watercolor, clay

  • Identify and use the principles of art design: emphasis, contrast, balance, movement, rhythm, pattern

  • Demonstrate the fundamentals of music: staff, measures, notes, scales, dynamics

  • Participate in the theatre: writing plays, acting out skits, set building, organization, memorization