From 3 to 6 years
A stimulating educational environment rich in learning opportunities that can support the development phase of personality and character.
Maria Montessori’s “Help Me Do It Myself” concept reflects her fundamental belief that the role of the adult in raising a child is not to do things for the child, but rather to provide the resources and environment for the child to develop autonomy and independence.
Montessori believed that children have a strong desire to learn and do things for themselves. Therefore, rather than simply providing answers or doing activities for them, adults should be guides, supporting and encouraging children as they explore, discover and learn through direct experience.
In practice, this means providing children with developmentally appropriate materials and activities, allowing them to experiment, explore and solve problems on their own, with the adult providing support and guidance only when necessary. The goal is to help them develop self-confidence, problem-solving skills, autonomy, self-motivation and a sense of responsibility for their learning and their environment.
Time Schedule
Full time Monday to Friday
Entry until 9:30
Exit from 15:30 to 16:00
From 7:30 AM
From 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Location
A typical day
7:30 AM – 8:15 AM: Pre-school
8:15 AM -9:30AM: Welcome and start of class activities
The children are welcomed and escorted to the changing area. Guided by the specialist teachers, they change and then proceed to their classroom where the teachers greet them and begin the work activities.
9:30 AM -11:30AM: Montessori Activities
The activities may include: practical life, sensory material, psychoarithmetic, psychogrammatics, and cosmic education; all through the child’s free choice. Additionally, there are other offerings with specialist teachers: motor skills, music, English, and art.
At 10:00 AM, the children can take a short break from work and have a fruit snack.
11:15AM – 12:00AM: Waiter Activities
11:30 AM -12:00 AM: Tidy-up and set-up for lunch in the classrooms.
The children tidy up the classroom to prepare for the lunch.
12:00 AM – 12:45 AM: Lunch
Lunch is held in the classroom with the teachers.
12:45 AM – 14:30 AM: Break and outdoor activities in the garden or gym, and rest for the younger children
14:30 AM – 15:15 AM: Montessori educational activities
15:15 AM – 15:30 AM: Tidy-up and changing room
After tidying up the classroom, the children, in small groups, change in the changing rooms with the teachers’ presence. The class waits for the parents to arrive.
MONTESSORI MATERIALS
The movable letters
Through the use of this material, children engage in their first exercises of counting and coordination, beginning to internalize the connection between quantity and numeral.
MONTESSORI MATERIALS
Length rods
By using this material, children engage in their first exercises of counting and coordination, beginning to associate quantity with the numeral.
MONTESSORI MATERIALS
The spindles
The bobbin case typically consists of a tray divided into compartments, each of which is intended to contain a certain number of bobbins collected by a ribbon. This precise organization, approached in a ritual way, helps children to understand and respect the arrangement of the materials, favoring the development of the sense of order and the ability to classify.
MONTESSORI MATERIALS
The world map
The Montessori world map not only fosters the development of fine motor skills through the precise control of the hands as one explores the map, but also enriches the understanding of spatial relationships between countries, continents, and oceans, offering a deeper appreciation of the interconnectedness of our world.
MONTESSORI MATERIALS
Numeric rods
Through interaction with the Pink Tower, children are introduced to mathematical concepts such as size, sequence, and sorting. Manipulating the objects within the tower helps them develop the ability to classify, arrange, and organize—skills fundamental to the development of logic and conceptual understanding.
“Language development is an integral part of human personality. Words are the natural means of expressing thought, and consequently, of establishing understanding between individuals. While once it sufficed to know a single language, today it has become essential to teach several.”
Maria Montessori
Intercultural English
Through various activities, including practical life activities, the child learns from experience with the guidance of the teacher (Learning by doing), who organizes games, tells stories, proposes roleplays and sings mimed songs together with the children.
The full-time presence of a native/bilingual English teacher, or with equivalent experience, is foreseen, who works alongside the teachers of the different classes to encourage and develop “that special sensitivity to language typical of the young child that makes him passionately attentive to the sounds of the words he hears pronounced around him”.
Lunch time
In turns, the older children set the tables with ceramic plates, glasses, water jugs, steel cutlery and napkins, under the watchful eye of an educator. It is a very important moment of the day in which each child has the opportunity to demonstrate their autonomy.
The environments
The Children’s House environment is made up of 4 classrooms, each with direct access to the equipped and dedicated garden. In the area in front of the classrooms there are the changing areas, a large atrium dedicated to practical life and a space dedicated to carrying out artistic creative activities and to approaching the proposal of the English language.
The Children’s House environment also includes the music room and the gym space available for psychomotor activity and finally a room dedicated to bedtime.
Faq
Is it mandatory for those attending the Children's House to follow a Montessori path?
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What is Montessori freedom?
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Is it mandatory for those attending the Children's House to follow a Montessori path?
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