Why Choose Montessori

Children learn in many ways. Your child will be viewed as an individual, with special talents and strengths and with unique needs. The Montessori program will give your child experiences to develop skill in cognitive areas. Reading is presented phonetically with sandpaper letters, sound tags and sound boxes. Environmentally through labeled sight words. The children then move on to decoding words using the “California Phonetic Reading Program” and the movable alphabet. Practicing their skills with readers they get to take home.

Creative writing is encouraged with the moveable alphabet for even the earliest of readers, providing a sense of pride in accomplishment and confidence in their own ability.

Lessons in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry lessons are acquired through using visual manipulatives allowing the child to move gradually from concrete to abstract reasoning skills with solid mathematical comprehension.

The children are exposed to the Sciences including: zoology, botany, and some geology and physics focusing the child's attention on the care, respect and responsibility for the planet.

Children will also learn about the world around them through monthly themes, art, sewing, stories, and percussion instruments.

Physical development needs are met through outdoor play and movement activities done both inside and outside of the classroom, through circle time activities of dance/movement to music, bean bag games/dance, ribbon games/dance, yoga etc and outdoor activities such as obstacle course movement classes, as well as free play at lunch time, before school and after school, which emphasize large muscle motor development and co-ordination