Our Classroom

Our Classroom Environment is the most important place of our day.

 

This is where a the children get their hands on learning throughout the day.  Our classroom is filled with fun & exciting educational materials.  From blocks to babies, gears, and science activities.  

 

This approach to learning is “hands-on.” Dr. Maria Montessori believed (and modern science has affirmed) that moving and learning are inseparable. In the prepared classroom, children work with specially designed manipulative materials that invite exploration and engage the senses in the process of learning.

All learning activities support children in choosing meaningful and challenging work at their own interest and ability level. This child-directed engagement strengthens motivation, supports attention, and encourages responsibility.

 

Uninterrupted blocks of work time (typically 2+ hours in length) allow children to work at their own pace and fully immerse themselves in an activity without interruption. Your child’s work cycle involves selecting an activity, performing it for as long it remains interesting, cleaning up the activity and retuning it to the shelf, and making another work choice. This cycle respects individual variations in the learning process, facilitates the development of coordination, concentration, independence, and a sense of order, while facilitating your child’s assimilation of information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Welcoming Space

A Montessori Early Childhood classroom feels more like a home than a school. You won’t see desks, nor will a teacher stand at the front of the room delivering a lesson to the whole class. Instead, you’ll see children happily working individually or in small groups, at tables or on the floor near small mats that delineate their own space.

Specially designed learning materials are displayed on open shelves, easily accessible to the children. Classrooms also include low sinks accessible to the children, child-sized furniture, cozy spaces for quiet reading, reachable shelves with work available for free choice, and child-sized kitchen utensils so the students can eat, prepare, and clean up their snack on their own. Teachers gently guide students to help maintain the organization and cleanliness of this environment to keep it orderly and attractive, and to help your child understand how to care for materials and clean up after themselves—skills you will be happy to observe carrying over in your home.

 

Each day we will explore in our class learning about Math, Science, Writing, language,  literacy, and more.  

We will also continue our learning by going outdoors where more of our learning environment awaits!  

 

 This so that children can have one on one time to absorb more of their learning.  This is such a crucial time as they begin their educational foundation. 

 

"The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences"

~Maria Montessori