During the course of the day at Lakeview Montessori School, the children are involved in both group and individual lessons.  Besides the time spent working with the Montessori equipment, a portion of the day is also taken up with French lessons, art activities, theme lessons, activities and singing.  Frequent field trips also play an important role in Montessori educations

Our elementary program students range in age from 5 to 13years and must attend five full days per week. Maximum student: teacher ratio of 15:1 and 25:2.

Additional staff for music, a resource assistant for our children with special needs, workers on government grant programmes, volunteers and frequent student teachers further reduce our overall ratios

Junior elementary students aged 5 to 7 years old (K-Gr.2) use Montessori hands-on materials to build (spell) words with moveable letters, study parts of speech, add, subtract, multiply and divide in the thousands with materials, learn about the world with puzzle maps, and history with timelines. Children further their reading skills quickly with our well laid out Montessori materials for phonetic and later non-phonetic, work. Emphasis on Reading comprehension is always stressed.

Intermediate elementary students aged 8 to 10 years old (Gr.3 - Gr.5), work with hands-on materials to complete daily and later weekly assignments which are geared to their level. They complete projects (eg: countries, housing, etc.) which are presented to their class, and build their confidence and skills with success in a variety of challenging assignments.

Senior elementary students aged 11 to 13 (Gr.6 - Gr.8) work with weekly assignment sheets which are geared to their developmental level. These students learn how to manage their time as they complete the required work at their own pace. Montessori equipment is still available for use to help them understand advanced concepts such as decimals, percentages, sentence analysis.  Our senior elementary graduates meet the academic requirements of high school with ease and confidence.

Montessori education employs this mixed age grouping so that children may move at their individual appropriate academic pace, whether fast or slow while staying with their social peers. Children also have the opportunity to teach and assist others with subjects they have learned about.  This provides a review of their skills while developing confidence and self esteem.  The mixed age group also mirrors the world they are lpreparing to enter and provides the opportunity for fully developing the skills required to live effectively in our society.