The Montessori Method is an approach to education that can be summed up from Maria Montessori's most famous and often repeated words: "Follow the child."
The environment we have carefully prepared will give your child freedom within limits to develop an awareness and love of learning by their own inner motivation. They will have freedom to move about and choose activities for the day as inner discipline develops. The teacher is the lonk between the child and the environment.
Most importantly, the children develop a love of learning, the curiosity to continue to learn, self-discipline, and a sense of responsibility that will help them become a life-long learner.
Practical life materials help the child learn concentration, cooperation, independence, and an internal sense of order that comes from an outer environment that is orderly and consistent. Many of the physical movements and actions are an indirect preparation for the skills needed for reading and writing.
The sensorial area allows the child to explore the environment through sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. Vocabulary and understanding increases, and the senses are prepared for more advanced learning experiences.
Math is taught through the use of concrete, natural materials that allow the child to see and feel numbers; better understand the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; and to internalize these concepts in a logical way that leads to abstract thinking for more advanced math.
The language area encompasses many materials for listening and visualizing to prepare the child for the absorption of the reading process. Children accomplish this by using sandpaper letters and cut out alphabets as an introduction for the child to learn to read and write during his/her own sensitive period for doing so.
Group activities and the use of concrete, natural materials will introduce the child to a world of ideas in geography, history, science, art, and music.