The Montessori materials and classroom program allow each child to experience the excitement of learning by his own choice rather than being coerced. The program helps the child to perfect his or her natural skills for learning so that his or her ability will be at a maximum in future learning situations. The purpose of the Montessori materials is for the child to develop his concentration, coordination and positive working habits in preparation for his future learning experiences.
Montessori Childrens House is committed to providing a nurturing environment for your child to receive a quality education. Our school strives to provide your child with a solid foundation for his or her future learning potential. Our reputable program provides each and every child with a challenging self-rewarding environment enabling our students to further develop their physical, academic and social inherent skills. Every child is afforded the opportunity to realize, develop and achieve his or her own special abilities leading toward a solid foundation for his or her future learning potential and successful accomplishments.
Toddlers:
The toddler classroom offers children eighteen months through three years of age a unique beginning of self-development in a warm atmosphere of special understanding, respect, and support. The experienced teaching staff fulfills the social, physical, emotional, developmental and psychological needs of each child. Our Toddler program follows the Montessori philosophy that encourages vocabulary development, independence, and self-confidence for each child.
In this environment, there is space for movement, space for individual work, and room for group activities. Everything in the environment is proportionate to the child's size and is designed to be safe and aesthetically pleasing. The toddler classroom is presented as an inviting extension of his home - a doorway between the childs home and entrance into the future preschool classroom awaiting him.
Toddlers are given opportunities to work in the development of language skills (phonics), basic math skills, sensorial exercises, practical life, art and music. The practical life area is particularly emphasized as the activities in this area give children the chance to develop skills to care for themselves and their environment in the following areas: control of movement, appreciation of the environment and respect.
Of significant importance to toddlers are group activities that stimulate muscle coordination, balance and rhythm all practiced daily. Practical life activities are simple and can be accomplished by each child. They offer repetitive cycles that help the child establish patterns of order and sequencing - even at an early age. Being that the classroom contains very real and specifically purposeful lessons, each child becomes grounded in reality, builds his confidence and gains self-esteem through his success with these early age-appropriate activities.
Through song and dance, and freedom of choice, the toddlers have access to a variety of large muscle (gross motor skills) activities that offer them opportunities to jump, climb, balance, crawl, or skip. These exercises, as well as creative art activities, are a daily part of the classroom routine provided under the guidance of the certified teaching staff.
This freedom in a safe space is a crucial element of the toddler program. Through these positive daily activities, even the young child will gain an appreciation and respect for the environment and for his peers.
Pre-K:
The preschool classrooms are for children ages three to six years old. This three-year age span guarantees that children at various stages of development can learn from and with each other. Dr. Maria Montessori designed an environment for children that offered them the potential to be free to engage in those activities that she observed were characteristic and beneficial for their age group.
Dr. Montessori believed that the goal of early childhood education should not be to fill the child with facts from a pre-selected course of studies, but rather to cultivate his own natural desire to learn!
At the center of the Montessori method is your child! Your childs individual interests motivate his choice of materials. The experienced, certified teacher will demonstrate the appropriate use and method for each material and/or lesson and individually assist each child in the classroom.
In the Montessori classroom this objective is approached in two ways: first, by allowing each child to experience the excitement of learning by his own choice rather than by being forced; and second, by helping him to perfect all his natural tools for learning, so that his ability will be at a maximum in future learning situations. The Montessori materials have this dual long-range purpose in addition to their immediate purpose of giving specific information to the child. The child is then free to use the materials until the desired skill or concept has been mastered. Consequently, he may then choose to teach that material to another child or to move on to a new and/or higher level of interest.
The Montessori classroom offers a wide variety of child-sized, developmentally appropriate, self-correcting materials that allow your child to teach himself about language, mathematics and the varieties of cultures: music, art, geography, botany, and the physical sciences.
The Montessori method embraces the development of the whole child: intellectual, social, emotional, physical and spiritual. Freedom is a positive component for growth. The childs ability to choose his own lessons and work at his own pace provides each and every child the opportunity for his own self-directed future success. With the freedom to choose among this broad range of manipulative materials, the child is presented the opportunity to develop his own independence, grow in competence, gain confidence in himself and achieve positive work habits that will lead to an everlasting appreciation for learning.
Montessori Children's House12985 SW 112 Street
Miami, FL 33186
Map305-380-0513
www.MontessoriChildrensHouse.com
