The Elementary classrooms are encouraging, child-centered environments filled with hands-on activities that develop academic skills, encourage problem-solving, and improve concentration.  French, music, art, gym, band, choir, the sciences and computer instruction are all part of the TMS Elementary School curriculum, plus a wide range of extra-curricular activities are offered.

The classrooms at TMS, like all authentic Montessori school classrooms, contain mixed-aged groups.  Each Lower Elementary classroom contains children from 6 to 9 years of age (corresponding to grades 1 to 3 in a traditional classroom) and each Upper Elementary classroom is composed of students from 9 to 12 years of age (corresponding to grades 4 to 6 in a traditional classroom).

The Montessori Elementary curriculum is designed to meet the interest and needs of each stage of development and the classrooms contain activities and materials allowing children to fulfill their innate human potential.

Students at this age want to know how everything came to be. At TMS they learn the history of the universe and their world, and acquire knowledge of the evolution of plants, animals and humans.  As the students become interested in the abstract, such as moral issues of right and wrong, we provide the tools to conduct research with their minds and imagination.

The Elementary curriculum is organized around questions that fire the Elementary student’s imagination: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why is life on earth this way?

The Upper Elementary curriculum takes its starting point from the arrival of humans on the “Timeline of Life.”  It is presented as an anthropological study to answer the question: Where did people come from?  Students grasp the progress of evolution through civilizations as they study TMS developed timelines.

In the third year of Upper Elementary, the students trace the history of the world by linking all of the previous studies to an understanding of life and culture.  The integrated curriculum of history, geography, biology, geology, and literature provides moral and humanistic guidance on the interdependence of life, the earth and all peoples.

The curriculum is based on the work of Maria Montessori and incorporates currentresearch in education and relevant provincial educational guidelines.

At TMS individual students are allowed to develop at their own pace.  Although students do not produce the same work, each student will always be within a TMS Montessori work plan that helps ensure that he or she does not fall behind.  The work is dictated by the needs of the student, not only by the teacher’s planning book, creating the most positive of learning environments.

At TMS, our educational and extracurricular programs provide a carefully developed and proven sequence of activities and create an environment that creates the opportunity of success for each student.