Why Montessori

At My Montessori School we believe that the world runs on creativity. We are dedicated to providing children with a rich learning environment that integrates the Montessori Educational Method in our quest to cultivate natural curiosity and inquisitiveness.

Early education affects how children learn for the rest of their lives. An optimistic attitude towards knowledge built at a young age is carried into later life and is one of the building blocks of success and self fulfilment.

While many educational establishments chose to adhere to a pre-planned curriculum, the Montessori Method allows young children the freedom to explore the world through their curiosity within their own time and space. It is the teacher’s role to identify and follow the interest of the child, to facilitate his/her own journey of discovery and knowledge acquisition.

It is our mission to help children flourish and fulfil their potential. To achieve that we help them embrace their instincts, explore their senses and recognise their feelings. We help them become independent beings, self-confident and fascinated with life. We recognise their individual needs and help them develop interests in a way that inspires an ever growing desire to learn.

Fear of failure and words like “right” or “wrong”, “good” and “bad” have no place in our approach to knowledge – they limit possibilities rather than expand them.

We create a nurturing environment that supports our children’s development and make them feel safe and loved.

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Classroom

The Montessori learning environment is designed with the child in mind. Furniture and décor are appropriate in size and level, the activities are made of natural materials and appeal to the child aesthetically.

In our classroom we have five different curriculum areas: Practical Life, Sensorial, Early Literacy, Early Numeracy and Knowledge and Understanding of the World.

Activities

Practical life activities help children become independent in their daily life thus developing self confidence and self esteem. Activities in this areas include buttoning own jackets, lacing shoes, holding clothes as well as pouring water, arranging flowers, stringing beads, matching locks and keys, planting seeds and many more. As well as learning valuable real life skills, young children also develop hand-eye coordination, left-to-right eye movement (a pre-reading skill), fine motor skills and environmental thinking. This area is immediately attractive for all children, because the materials look exactly like the ones they know from home.

Sensorial Area

The materials contained in the Sensorial area are meant to be explored with all five senses. Each material isolates one defining quality such as color, weight, shape, texture, size, sound and smell. Dr. Montessori discovered that ordering, comparing and classifying sensory stimulation is greatly beneficial for the child’s intellectual development. Abilities such as perception, basic problem solving and abstract learning are aided through such activities. This area is also a vital area for the child’s preparation for mathematics.

Early literacy

Early literacy includes materials that prepare the child for writing and reading. Songs, poems, finger games and pre-literacy games help the children to enrich their vocabulary and to begin recognising individual sounds. The activities in this area develop wrist dexterity, pincer and tripod grip that are all necessary for learning to write.

Early numeracy (math) is an area that introduces abstract concepts to children. The materials and activities in this area introduce gradually the children to the main mathematical concepts such as: pairing, matching, sorting, fractions. Each exercise build upon another and strives to make the child confident and competent when dealing with numbers.