The Montessori curriculum encourages depth of understanding, creative thinking, problem solving, collaborative effort and mastery. As students pursue greater depth in their work, they find the need to enter the “real world” to gather additional information. This wonderful, cozy, warm environment is specially designed for mobility and to foster growing independence. A guided journey through great literature affords our students the opportunity to develop some of the deepest foundations of such a life: the capacity for empathy and moral reasoning, deep inspiration, and profound self-understanding. Collaborative learning and a natural attraction to group work cultivate interest and drive …
Each work is covered for four to five weeks. The emphasis is on understanding that everything that exists has developed through time and that humans have created much of what we take for granted – technologies, knowledge, and culture.
In traditional elementary school, teachers are required to teach an establish curriculum at an established pace. Each year five great stories are told in a dramatic fashion in order to create a framework of information to which students will add detail and understanding throughout their elementary years. In a Montessori school, the child is accountable for her own learning. The history and social studies curriculum strives to introduce ideas that students can really ponder. Teachers and our older students are available to facilitate discussions between students. GOING OUT (12:40)Preparing the elementary child for the future includes going beyond the classroom. Students between 6 – 12 years of age are entering a new stage of development. Collaborative learning and a natural attraction to group work cultivate interest and drive incredible intellectual inquiries. Our program uses works of literature that are: Rich and full-length, including novels, plays, and poetry (no excerpts, summaries, or child versions), chosen to offer accessibility to and also challenge for elementary students; Thematically profound, both to children and timelessly so, touching on topics such as courage, honesty, and independence; Exciting, value-driven, and inspiring (even when tragic), and that include strong characters who make choices and act accordingly. This can mean that we have, as my trainer Sister Mary called them, “gaps” in what a Montessori child learns. In Montessori elementary, grade levels are flexibly defined within a developmental age range (usually of 2-3 years.) Book a Tour . It’s good to hear that New Zealand schools are closer to Montessori. COPYRIGHT: 2010-2020 Age of Montessori, All rights reserved. Topics of Science study at Mountainside range from how the world began to basic principles of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology.
In addition to mastering the full stack of reading comprehension skills, our program teaches students to systematically relate the lessons of literature to their own life experience.