A Montessori Children’s House is a special place where learning and community come alive. Following Maria Montessori’s traditional 3-year cycle of development, classes have a mixed age range from 3-6years old. A child is free to choose their work and it is always at their own level and pace. Learning is very clearly built on piece by piece with each experience leading on to the next.
The three-year learning cycle allows older children to consolidate their learning by teaching the younger students and it allows younger students to be inspired to do more difficult work by watching the others. There are no tests and no competition to compete with one another, only oneself.
The Children’s House includes five different classroom areas — including one for each major academic subject — each with enticing and sequenced materials that your child will be introduced to with individualized lessons over a three-year period.
“The most important period of life is not the age of university studies but the first one, the period from birth to six. The more fully the needs of one period are met the greater will be the success of the next.”
Maria Montessori
Practical Life
When a child joins his Children’s House class, his first experiences will be with the practical life activities. These lessons inspire the child with real-world, purposeful tasks and tools, helping him see himself, correctly, as capable and competent.
Sensorial
Children of this age learn about the world through their senses and this is why Montessori provided many materials which allowed children to explore through their senses.
Language
The Montessori approach to language study makes learning appear effortless, because it recognizes the individuality of each child. When the moment comes that a child is ready to learn the written word, materials are available for children to leap into exploring the spoken and written language.
The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own desire to learn.
Maria Montessori
Mathematics
Montessori children experience the wonder of math through engaging materials that inspire concrete understanding and joyful problem-solving, paving the way for a smooth transition to abstraction.
Cultural Sciences
Geography and culture lessons in the Montessori classroom offer the inspiration for a child’s future study of history and science. Areas covered include areas such as Zoology, Botany, Geography, Biology and more.
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