Acorns

Acorns

Acorns Camp allows our youngest campers - three-year-olds - the opportunity to dive into summer camp supported by our nurturing, experienced Montessori staff. Our teachers are eager to help make the transition to camp and beyond a smooth one for these new campers. Learn more about thecurriculum areas they will explore below!

Practical Life

The practical life curriculum provides opportunities for the developing three-year-old mind that is drawn to order, concentration, coordination, and independence. Real life skill lessons are offered in the steps for preparing snack, dressing oneself, sweeping an area of the classroom, planting a garden, washing dishes, and more. Fine-motor skills are developed, a variety of utensils are offered, and purposeful work is celebrated, all at a three-year-old's pace and developmental stage. Practical Life activities support life at home with family and social interactions with peers at school.

Sensorial

The sensorial curriculum includes lessons that inspire the five senses through which Montessori observed that children absorb knowledge. Through hands-on materials, children will explore touch, sound, taste, temperature, and visual discrimination activities that call to their natural desire to learn. Curiosity will be encouraged and whole-child developmental needs supported in this fun and creative time.

Language

The language curriculum provides the three-year-old child with opportunities to interact with hands-on materials that stoke their growing interest in prewriting and pre-reading skills. Matching objects, rhyming words, memorizing poetry, and imagining story lines they think of on their own will fill their fun summer day. A variety of whole-child activities will be offered for our friends to stay engaged in purposeful work and expression of their creativity.

Math

Interest in numbers, counting, and asking “how many?” are hallmark qualities of the developing three-year-old. Trying to count as high as we can and telling everyone around us how old we are comes naturally at this age. Our Montessori math materials are hands-on opportunities to use our fingers and their desire to manipulate small items. We will count and make patterns while exploring simple mathematical concepts that call to this developmental stage of the young mind. Creativity will expand into activities where math and art meet, where sharing snack and dividing servings equally combine. The young child is a mathematician by design and this session will support and encourage them.

Cultural

The cultural curriculum explores geography, world studies, science, art, and music. Our global citizens-in-training will explore the world through songs, dancing, art projects, scientific experiments, and puzzle maps. Opening our minds and hearts to experiencing the world around us is foundational to the Montessori student’s experience. We will have snacks that invoke global spice flavors, and we will encounter something new every day! This camp will awaken our senses and our academic interests in a variety of lessons and materials.