Our balanced Montessori curriculum offers children a full authentic Montessori education with a balance of traditional educational experiences. This balance helps to ensure a seamless entry into Kindergarten. Our full day programs are complemented by weekly enrichment sessions. We incorporate the well know award winning music program, Kindermusik which is dedicated to using the power of music to help children grow during the years most critical to brain development. Our Dynamic Art program incorporates Arts and Crafts and an Art Education program geared toward learning the styles of famous Artists. The Licensed Fitness program focuses on inspiring and empowering children to see fitness as fun, playful, and lifelong as well as build motor skills and confidence for life. We also offer Dance with Connie Parsons School of Dance which provides opportunities for boys and girls to experience an introduction to different types of dance and movement as well as participate in the year in the year end recital at the Arts + Culture Centre.
A Montessori Education with a balance of traditional education, in addition to a bonus of Fine Arts; provides an educational program of excellence tailored to fit the unique needs of individual children in a multi age setting. The goals of Montessori education are to cultivate each child’s natural desire to learn, acquire and master skills, learn responsibility, to cooperate and foster strong, positive feelings about themselves and others.
A Montessori Education addresses the total child developing social skills, emotional growth, physical coordination, and cognitive preparation, within a thoughtfully designed and prepared environment.
We believe that children learn best in an enriched, supportive environment through exploration, discovery and creativity with the guidance and encouragement of professionally trained and caring educators.
Classrooms are prepared with a wealth of stimulating, educational materials selected and designed to meet the needs of the individuals it serves. There are a range of materials both in variety and level of development to allow multi aged children to progress through the curriculum as their skills develop with an educator guiding them each step of the way.
Family Grouping
The groups are composed of children ages; 1.5 to 3 years, 2.9 to 4 years and 3 to 5 years. This allows for peer teaching, broad social interactions, individual differences in learning style and pace, and creates a social community of family. It provides the youngest students with a graded series of role models and the older students with peer teaching opportunities for reinforcement of learning.
Family grouping offers children of multiple ages an opportunity to learn and excel at their own pace.
Teacher
Our educators receive extensive training in the area of Montessori education and methodology. Our Montessori teachers are trained facilitators in the classroom, always ready to assist and direct. Their purpose is to stimulate the child’s enthusiasm for learning and to guide it, without interfering with the child’s natural desire to learn and become independent based on his or her own unique needs and capabilities. Our educators also use their expertise to design learning experiences that encourage critical thinking, creativity and active learning based on children’s interests and developmental needs
Individualized and Group Instruction
With small group and individualized instruction each child learns and develops at her/his own pace through the use of materials and lessons introduced by trained staff. The integrated curriculum is introduced sequentially and at the developmental level of each individual child, allowing every child to work to capacity and at their ability level. Traditional group instruction will also be incorporated into the child’s daily activities allowing children an opportunity to learn together.
Hands-on Approach To Learning
The use of educational materials for early learning is an integral part of the program for all ages. We believe that children learn by doing, therefore lessons for math, language and all subject areas include hands-on materials for use by the student. Everything in a Montessori classroom has a specific use or purpose. A quality Montessori classroom has a busy, productive atmosphere where joy and respect abound. Within such an enriched environment, freedom, responsibility, social and intellectual development spontaneously flourish!