Our curriculum at Sparrow School extends beyond academics, offering a diverse array of extracurricular activities that empower students to explore and cultivate their unique interests and talents.”
Sparrow School provides a dynamic tapestry of extracurricular activities, with each thread creating a distinctive experience for our kids. Our diversified activities cater to a wide range of interests, from sports teams competing with passion to innovative arts and community service initiatives that inspire change.
Our Curriculum
Practical Life
The Practical Life area is essential for a strong Montessori educational foundation. In this area a
child is developing and strengthening control of movement (fine motor skills), concentration span,
self-confidence, and a love of learning. The activities in Practical Life are made up of familiar
objects that a child would observe in everyday life. The activities are designed and chosen so that
the children feel comfortable and will be able to master the activity. These activities can be
grouped under: care of self, control of movement, care of the environment, and grace and courtesy.
The overall goal of this area is not only to help children gain self-confidence in their working
abilities, but to expose the children to fundamental activities that will build their concentration
span and work with activities they will encounter through adulthood. Practical life skills are of
great interest to young children and form the basis of later abstract learning.
Sensorial
The Sensorial area of the classroom helps children become more aware of smaller details that are
often overlooked. Each sensorial activity focuses on one important quality such as colour, weight,
shape, size, texture, sound or smell. Sensorial activities develop the senses of perception and
discrimination for exploring and noticing small differences in patterns as well as fine motor function
development in the hands. The sensorial area builds the child’s concentration for a wider awakening
of the senses and perception for distinguishing different qualities and patterns. These activities
develop and refine the 5 senses — seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling — and build a
foundation for speech, writing, and math through the use of sensorial materials.
Language
The Language area of the Montessori classroom encourages development of early-literacy skills
through the use of phonetic sounds. In the Language area children are exposed to various types of
phonetic awareness activities to build a strong literary foundation. Montessori Language activities
are designed to improve a child’s vocabulary, listening skills for common sounds, and
differentiating between objects and pictures. Language activities include learning the shapes and
sounds of letters, practicing fine motor skills by writing, vocabulary development, matching words
and pictures, reading development with word lists, practicing parts of grammar (nouns, verbs,
adjectives, etc.), creating sentences and reading silently
Math
The Math area of the Montessori classroom encompasses the use of concrete materials for the
recognition of numbers and the recognition of quantity as well. Through these activities, children
learn exactly how much a symbolic number stands for (i.e. the number 5 means counting the correct
number of objects to make the number 5). Mathematics activities are divided into six categories that
include: counting and the decimal system, memory work, concrete abstraction, arithmetic tables and
geometry. Children are introduced to more complex mathematical procedures and concepts as they
are individually ready.
Culture
The Culture area of the environment encompasses a variety of subjects that are supplementary to
the Montessori method. Cultural areas include: Geography, Zoology, Botany, Science, Art & Music.
These areas provide children an opportunity to explore their curiosity of different and worldly
ideas. Studying Geography allows the children the opportunity to understand their own culture as
well as many others. The children can relate and understand cultural diversity and ultimately come
to appreciate differences between humankind. Science in the Montessori classroom allows the
children to observe and work with hands-on experiments that will cultivate a lifelong interest in
nature and discovering more about our unique world. Through the study of Botany, the children
learn about plants so that they may appreciate nature in a more organic way. The study of Zoology
shows children animals from all around the world Lastly, the study of art & music allows the
children a very unique opportunity to express themselves. Art & Music allows children to gain a
literary understanding of language and develop their cognitive, social and emotional skills in a
constructive way
What Your Child Learns Outside Of Books
Arts And Crafts
Arts and crafts are used to encourage creativity at Sparrow School.
Movements
Sparrow School promotes physical health via a variety of exercises.
Life Skills
Students at Sparrow School learn important life skills.
Sports
Sports: Excellence, Teamwork, Growth
Handball
Handball is a prominent sport at Sparrow School.
Frisbee
Frisbee is a leisure activity available at Sparrow School.
Basketball
Basketball tournaments and games are held at Sparrow School.
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We are committed to providing a prepared environment
that encourages children to develop practical, intellectual,
physical and social discipline. We are committed to
providing a prepared environment that encourages
children to develop practical, intellectual, physical and
social discipline.
