The Montessori Method

What is a Montessori Plus School?

Why provide Montessori learning for your child?

What ages are the children?

Why should I begin my child at such a young age?

Do the children move and choose their work freely?

What guidelines to learning are given to the children?

What are the learning outcomes?

How does the Montessori child adapt to a traditional elementary classroom?

What does "Montessori" mean?

Q. What is a Montessori Plus School?

A. Montessori Plus School is a place where children, ages 18 months to 6 years, love to learn by doing, experimenting, touching...using all of their senses. We provide a hands-on classroom with learning materials for all of the main areas: practical living, sensory, math, art, music, langugage, as well as geography, history and science. Even the youngest children learn about their world!

The materials are especially made for the Montessori classroom, exceptionally broad in range and advanced for children of their age.

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Q. Why provide Montessori learning for your child?

A. Our beautiful learning materials and loving teachers surround the children as they fulfill their profound need to learn.

Give your child the world: full of wonder and perfect design! Allow your child to reach toward his/her full potential!

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Q. What ages are the children?

A. Children, ages 18 months to 6, work and play together as a family, in a cooperative and non-competitive environment. They encourage each other to succeed, learning from their mistakes without feeling inferior or superior. The ideal Montessori learning program for your child is the full 3-year program.

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Q. Why should I begin my child at such a young age?

A. Being exposed at their most sensitive periods to such an enriched environment, the children develop their abilities to a high level, without pressure and through freedom of choice.

Most importantly, however, our students find God as the center of their classroom. Through small life-like figures, the children may choose to tell themselves or each other stories in the life and parables of Jesus Christ. All areas of learning are brought together so that the child understands life as a whole, created by God.

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Q. Do the children move and choose their work freely?

A. Absorbing a broad understanding of the world through hands-on materials, the children move about freely, choosing their "work" with responsibility and freedom. Their independence and self-confidence grow as they learn through projects that allow them to learn as individuals, at their own pace and to reach toward their full potential.

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Q. What guidelines to learning are given to the children?

A. Our school is based upon the fundamental need of each child for freedom within limits. Children are longing "to do" with their hands: to touch, to smell, to taste, to see, to hear so that they may learn. They choose their "work" and concentrate for surprisingly long periods of time without interruption.

Socializing as they learn, the children use their newly-acquired speech skills, expressing themselves as individuals as well as chatting about their life values, interests, and their family members.

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Q. What are the learning outcomes?

A. When children begin at 18 months or 2 years of age at Montessori Plus School, they show qualities of enthusiasm for learning, love of work, concern for others, concentration, a drive toward excellence, orderliness and a joy of learning. It is inspiring to see most of the 4 and 5-year-olds casually reading to each other, confident in the knowledge that they taught themselves to read!

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Q. How does the Montessori child adapt to a traditional elementary classroom?

A. Because of their self-discipline and independence, children who have been in the Montessori classroom for the full 3-year span adjust readily to traditional elementary classrooms. Since the majority of the children have been reading since they were 4-1/2 or 5 years of age, they love to learn, wherever they are.

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Q. What does "Montessori" mean?

A. Dr. Maria Montessori was the first female physician in Italy, and she graduated from the University of Rome in 1898. She specialized in pediatrics and discovered the marvelous abilities of young children to learn through their senses. Today there are thousands of Montessori schools throughout the U.S. and around the world.

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