The Montessori approach fosters children's love of learning and encourages independence by providing activities and materials which children use at their own pace.
Activities fall into the categories of Practical Life, Sensorial, Fine Motor, Language, Maths and Culture.
Children engage in their chosen activity for the length of time they desire, building their concentration skills. A work cycle is established where children choose an activity, take it to a table to investigate and then return it to the shelf when finished. Any child waiting to use the same activity will then be told that it is available.
Some examples of Practical Life include washing, pegging, transferring, pouring, cleaning, sweeping and dressing. These activities are aimed at giving children the skills to become independent and self sufficient, while helping to promote concentration and fine motor development.
Sensorial activities enable children to isolate and compare attributes of sound, colour, shape, texture, dimensions, smell and taste. By using their senses to investigate concrete materials, children refine their ability to compare, contrast, match and sort.
We incorporate language activities through song, story telling, collaborative crafts and rhymes. Throughout the year we learn how people from cultures all around the world greet one another and incorporate these elements in our hello and goodbye songs. Early maths activities include numeral recognition, one to one correspondence, sorting, comparing and matching.
We have a range of outside play equipment including a platform, monkey bars, tunnel, a cubby house, mud kitchen, mini-trampoline, nature play area, climbing frames and bikes. Children do painting, sand and water play and plenty of other 'messy' fun activities.
Activities fall into the categories of Practical Life, Sensorial, Fine Motor, Language, Maths and Culture.
Children engage in their chosen activity for the length of time they desire, building their concentration skills. A work cycle is established where children choose an activity, take it to a table to investigate and then return it to the shelf when finished. Any child waiting to use the same activity will then be told that it is available.
Some examples of Practical Life include washing, pegging, transferring, pouring, cleaning, sweeping and dressing. These activities are aimed at giving children the skills to become independent and self sufficient, while helping to promote concentration and fine motor development.
Sensorial activities enable children to isolate and compare attributes of sound, colour, shape, texture, dimensions, smell and taste. By using their senses to investigate concrete materials, children refine their ability to compare, contrast, match and sort.
We incorporate language activities through song, story telling, collaborative crafts and rhymes. Throughout the year we learn how people from cultures all around the world greet one another and incorporate these elements in our hello and goodbye songs. Early maths activities include numeral recognition, one to one correspondence, sorting, comparing and matching.
We have a range of outside play equipment including a platform, monkey bars, tunnel, a cubby house, mud kitchen, mini-trampoline, nature play area, climbing frames and bikes. Children do painting, sand and water play and plenty of other 'messy' fun activities.