The Journey

For each Montessori student, learning is a journey of self discovery that leads to heightened levels of self esteem, self-discipline, motivation, and a true love of learning.

Montessori Distinct Areas of Study

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The 6 main areas of study that Montessori students follow are described below.

The Casa Classroom for Preschoolers

The Practical Life section of the classroom emphasizes daily activites such as washing dishes, sewing buttons, buttoning buttons, zipping zippers, and pouring water. These activities develop a child’s hand-eye coordination and ability to explore daily life at their own pace.

Sensorial Materials help children to understand the differences between objects based on size, color, weights, texture, sound and taste.

When studying Mathematics, the child is provided a range of hands-on materials such as beads, spindle boxes, and number charts, which provide a solid foundation of the basic math principles that will eventually develop solid problem solving skills.

Language is developed through conversation and shared stories as well as the use of sandpaper letters to help each child link the sound and the letter easily leading to the child eventually becoming fully literate. Each class also has regular French lessons.

The Culture section includes Geography and Science. The children learn about the difference between world cultures and our ever changing environment.

The Arts section encourages the child to be creative using musical instruments and singing songs. Other artistic activities include collage, and finger and brush painting.

The Elementary Classroom

The Elementary classroom is organized in much the same way, but the children begin to work more in small groups rather than individually to increase their knowlege in the subject areas mentioned above.

Montessori Classroom

The Montessori classrooms are designed for different age groups to work together, providing both individual and social development. The older children help the younger ones by guiding them through activities that they are already comfortable completing successfully, therefore sharing the joy of learning between children of different ages and abilities.

"An Educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the bonds which limit his activity."

Maria Montessori