Curriculum
Every program uses our Upgraded Montessori approach: hands-on materials, narrative-driven missions, and small groups led by a credentialed teacher.
Core Program
Small groups of 4-6 students work through themed missions, each spanning 8 weekly sessions. Click any mission for details.
A mysterious deed to a Gold Rush mining claim has been discovered. Students must investigate whether it is legitimate, trace the prospector's route, calculate the economics of mining, and argue the case before a panel of judges.
Subjects: California history (4th grade), geography and mapping, economics and math, persuasive writing
Culminating Activity: Mock trial and claim hearing with student-prepared arguments and evidence
The Compass Rose Museum of Natural History needs a new geology exhibit. Students are hired as consultants to classify specimens, explain geological processes, and design an interactive exhibit.
Subjects: Earth science (rock cycle, mineral properties, erosion), scientific classification, measurement, expository writing
Culminating Activity: Student-designed museum exhibit with labeled specimens and guided tour presentations
Time anomalies are disrupting ancient civilizations. Students are dispatched as Temporal Guardians to investigate and protect key moments across Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
Subjects: Ancient history, geography, comparative government, mythology, timeline construction, ancient number systems
Culminating Activity: Interactive timeline and civilization comparison matrix presented as a Temporal Report
An expedition to chart unexplored territory requires master map-makers. Students learn to read and create maps at increasing complexity while solving navigation puzzles.
Subjects: Geography, coordinate grids, scale and measurement, cardinal and intermediate directions, California geography
Culminating Activity: Student-created expedition map with a navigation challenge for classmates
A local habitat is under threat. Students become ecological consultants who study food webs, classify organisms, and propose a conservation plan.
Subjects: Ecosystems, food webs, adaptation, classification, data collection and graphing, persuasive writing
Culminating Activity: Conservation proposal presented to a mock city council panel
An encrypted message from a historical figure has been intercepted. Students must master mathematical patterns, logic puzzles, and code-breaking strategies to decipher the message.
Subjects: Algebraic thinking, patterns, number theory, logic and reasoning, cryptography history
Culminating Activity: Students create their own coded messages and challenge classmates to crack them
Younger Learners
Story-driven missions designed for emerging readers and early learners.
A magical garden grows stories instead of flowers. Students plant story seeds by learning letter sounds, building words, and writing and illustrating their own tales.
Subjects: Phonics, vocabulary, sentence construction, narrative writing, plant life cycle, illustration
Culminating Activity: A class-made Story Garden book with each student's illustrated story
Explorers have discovered a land where everything is counted, measured, and sorted. Students master the number systems of this new world to navigate its challenges.
Subjects: Number sense, place value, basic operations, measurement, sorting and patterns, introductory geometry
Culminating Activity: A Number Museum where students display and explain their favorite math discoveries
The Compass Rose Wildlife Center needs junior zoologists to classify animals, study habitats, and create field guides.
Subjects: Animal classification, habitats, basic needs of living things, observational drawing, informational writing
Culminating Activity: Student-created field guide pages assembled into a class guide
Students are founding a new town. They must decide what the community needs, assign roles, create a map, and build a model together.
Subjects: Community roles, needs vs. wants, basic economics, mapping, collaborative design
Culminating Activity: 3D model town with a class-drawn map and student presentations
The Compass Rose Weather Station needs observers to track and predict local weather. Students become meteorologists who collect data and deliver forecasts.
Subjects: Weather and seasons, temperature, measurement, data recording and graphing, cloud types, water cycle
Culminating Activity: Week-long weather report broadcast performed by students
Hands-On Math
60-minute sessions using Montessori manipulatives shipped to your home. Groups of 3-4 for maximum individual attention.
Counting with number rods. Place value with golden beads. Addition and subtraction with the stamp game. Fraction foundations with fraction circles. Geometric shapes with the geometry cabinet. Every session follows the CRA progression: build it, draw it, write it.
Multi-digit operations with racks and tubes. Fraction equivalence and operations. Decimals with the decimal board. Area, perimeter, and volume with constructive triangles. Squaring and cubing with the bead cabinet. Algebraic thinking through pattern work.
Each lab follows a five-phase structure: warm-up, lesson with materials, guided practice, representational bridge (drawing), and abstract connection (notation). Students receive a home math kit before their first session.
Individualized
Montessori-informed tutoring in all K-5 subjects via Zoom.
Every session begins with a diagnostic conversation. We use virtual manipulatives, shared whiteboard tools, and screen-based models before abstract procedures. Sessions close with a student-led summary. This is targeted concept instruction, not homework help. Available in all K-5 subjects with a specialty in Montessori math.
The same individualized approach in a paired format. Ideal for siblings or friends at similar levels who benefit from collaborative learning. Each student receives targeted instruction while also learning from and with their partner. A more affordable way to access the Compass Rose methodology.