Movement TipsMovement brings your child in touch with his environment. He learns through his senses. By moving, touching, smelling, seeing, and listening, he begins to understand his world. When he can explore and interact with his surroundings he is learning. His movements and explorations connect his body … [Read more...]
The Montessori Preschool Program
Montessori Preschool Classroom The Montessori preschool classroom is a "living room" for children. Children choose their work from among the self-correcting materials displayed on open shelves, and they work in specific work areas. Over a period of time, the children develop into a "normalized community," working … [Read more...]
The Importance of Montessori for the Kindergarten Year
Below are 20 reasons to keep your child in Montessori for the Kindergarten year complimentary of The Montessori Children’s Foundation.Kindergarten is not the start of schooling. By five, most Montessori children will begin to read, and many will be introduced to multiplication and division. The third (or … [Read more...]
Benefits Of A Montessori Education
Montessori education offers our children opportunities to develop their potential as they step out into the world as engaged, competent, responsible, and respectful citizens with an understanding and appreciation that learning is for life.Each child is valued as a unique individual. Montessori education … [Read more...]
Montessori at Home
Have you marveled at the remarkable order of the Montessori classroom? Has your toddler told you that at school she pours her own juice? Does your teenager hang or put away all her clothes—without being asked?Encouraging order, independence, and self-motivation are fundamental to the Montessori approach. … [Read more...]
Country Day For Children Montessori