Montessori

The Montessori Method allows children to learn the way they learn best and easiest – by doing things themselves.  Basically, the children teach themselves with the help and assistance of their teacher, in a disciplined environment that allows all to progress.

With tuition for our Montessori program at $350 for children three years of age and up, the investment you make in your child's education is well worth the growth and discovery your child will encounter.  
   
Under the guidance of the teacher, the children can choose work that appeals to their own inner interests.  They can exercise their sense of freedom and spontaneity.  They feel joy and enthusiasm in learning because they are doing what they want to do instead of what someone else tells them they must do.
           
In a Montessori school, the children teach themselves through their use of the specially designed Montessori materials.  These are attractive, generally simple, child-size and are self-correcting: that is, if a child makes an error he can see it by looking at the material itself.  In this way, no adult is needed to point out his/her mistakes and perhaps injure his/her self-esteem.
           
The children learn to work alone and with others in a Montessori school.  They usually make their own choices.  A child learns to follow the class “ground rules” and may often remind other children to follow them as well.
           
The practical life area is used especially by the very young children (up to 3 ½) and teaches them how to care for themselves and their environment.  Here, the children learn to dress themselves by using the dressing frames (button, snap, zip, buckle, etc.), to pour (grains and water), to wash a table, to polish silver and to properly wash their hands among other things.
           
The sensorial area allows children to use their senses to learn about the world.  Here, a child will learn to judge different heights, lengths, weights, colors, sounds, smells, shapes, and textures.
           
The Language, Math, Geography, and Science areas provide the child with aids for their intellectual development.  Exercises in body movement assist their physical development and awareness of the body and what it can do.
           
Music, art, dancing, sewing, woodworking and Spanish are added at to further enrich the child’s total development.