Jewish Montessori Curriculum for Early Childhood

​Our curriculum is designed to nurture your child's development by offering a diverse and rich educational experience. We provide hands-on and practical learning opportunities, promoting essential life skills and fostering creativity.

Practical Life

Practical Life forms the foundation of our curriculum, helping children develop essential life skills such as:
  • Grasping, pouring, spooning, grating, and folding.
  • These activities also enhance children’s concentration and focus, paving the way for more complex tasks.
  • Furthermore, many of these tasks double as pre-writing exercises, helping strengthen fine motor skills and coordination.

Sensorial

Sensorial activities engage your child's five senses:
  • A variety of materials help children develop pre-math skills and spatial awareness.
  • They enhance the ability to focus on sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

Language

Language learning forms a cornerstone of our curriculum:
  • Children master crucial reading and writing skills, including pattern recognition, sequencing, and more.
  • They explore the sounds of English and Hebrew alphabets, leading to reading proficiency in both languages.
  • They gradually develop writing skills, from proper pencil usage to tracing, metal insets, and eventually writing letters.

Math

Our math curriculum brings abstract concepts to life through hands-on learning:
  • Children learn to count, quantify, and identify numbers.
  • Further learning covers addition and subtraction into the hundreds and thousands, squaring and cubing, fractions, and the rules of the base-10 and decimal system.

Art

Art at SCDS is about the joy of creation:
  • Our focus is on the process rather than the product.
  • Children explore various mediums and use art as a form of self-expression.
  • Theme-based art projects are open-ended, fostering creativity and producing unique masterpieces.

Science

Science at SCDS is an immersive, hands-on experience:
  • Children learn to care for plants and class pets, promoting responsibility and understanding of the natural world.
  • Outdoor activities like nature walks and exciting experiments ignite their curiosity.
  • Specialized materials facilitate in-depth learning about botany and zoology.


Jewish Holidays

Jewish holidays and themes come alive in our classrooms:
  • ​We teach in a hands-on and engaging manner through interactive puppet shows, costumes, songs, and books.
  • Custom-made materials transform stories, laws, and customs into tangible activities for children to understand and connect with.
Further, our Jewish holiday curriculum runs through the whole classroom 
  • The holiday themes permeate our curriculum, with thematic math and language works, books, puzzles, science activities, and art projects.
  • Practical Life activities get a festive twist, as children prepare holiday food and practice Judaic customs.

Watch our curriculum in action!