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Our carefully prepared, multi-age classrooms contain the many materials
scientifically developed by Maria Montessori. The children have the opportunity
to work with these materials in the areas of practical life, sensory
exploration, language development and mathematical understanding. |
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The subjects of geography, botany, geometry, music and art are introduced. The
teacher guides the children's work, and allows them to move forward at their
own pace. |
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| The benefits are self-confidence, enthusiasm for learning,
lengthened attention span and good coordination. Children develop a solid
foundation for future academic endeavors. |
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Our classrooms offer plenty of opportunities for social interaction. Children
learn to cooperate and respect each other. |
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| The Montessori classroom environment and activities are carefully
arranged in the following areas: |
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| Practical Life |
| Practical life exercises include many tasks of daily life, such as washing
dishes, flower arranging, and polishing beautiful objects. Other exercises are
specifically intended to foster "grace and courtesy" - these include lessons in
table setting, carrying objects, making requests, and table etiquette. Through
these and other activities, children develop poise, coordination and
self-confidence. Children experience that "I can do it myself." |
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| Sensorial |
| Sensorial materials involve training and developing children's sense of touch,
sight, hearing, smell and taste. By practicing, children sharpen their ability
to differentiate between various shapes, sounds, smells, colors, textures and
tastes. The result is accentuated awareness of the physical environment and
heightened powers of observation that are so useful for future academic
explorations. |
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| Language |
| Montessori builds on children's remarkable natural capacity for language
development. Children in the Montessori classroom are exposed to rich language,
and explore the seemingly endless opportunities for naming objects. Through
learning the parts of a flower, the countries of the world, and the various
species of trees, among other things, children gain much more than factual
knowledge. They gain an appreciation of the power and descriptive ability of
language. Various activities in the classroom prepare the child for progression
from spoken to written language. Exercises in the classroom move logically from
left to right, and various activities develop the hand coordination necessary
for writing. As recognition of sounds leads to reading words, phrases and
sentences, children are eager to continue to gain prowess with reading. |
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| Cultural Subjects |
| Cultural subjects, such as Geography, History, Biology, Botany, Zoology, Art
and Music are an important part of the Montessori classroom. Children use the
Montessori materials to gain understanding and appreciation of the world around
them. |
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| Mathematics |
| Work with the Montessori math materials ranges from simply learning to count
and recognize numerals to hands-on work with the decimal system and hierarchies
of numbers (units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.). With these materials,
children also learn the process of addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division. Math facts are also acquired with ease. |
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| chesterfield montessori school: |
| 14000 ladue road chesterfield, mo
63017 |
| 314.469.7150 P
314.469.7851 F |
| info@chesterfieldmontessori.org |
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