Practical Life

Children have an understanding of how many of these activities work, because they have seen them around home. Maria Montessori describes the exercises of Practical Life as the foundation for all future learning and it is one of the first areas a child is drawn to explore.

The exercises have been shown to develop the child ‘s independence, concentration and co-ordination. Not only do they learn to care for themselves, but also they learn to care for others and their environment.

Sensorial Learning

Montessori sensorial materials awaken the child’s ability to learn through their senses. The children uses a series of activities to discriminate among many objects by using their senses. The sensorial and pratical life areas prepare children to enter into math, language and cultural studies.

They help the child judge size, shape, taste, sound, and smell.

Language

The children in a Montessori classroom learn to write and read phonetically. This means they learn to encode and decode words by learning the sounds in the English language. Written letters are introduced in the form of the Sandpaper Letters so that a child hears the name and feels the shape of any sound he learns. From here the child will move to world-building. Metal Insects will also be introduce to develop the manipulative skills for writing.

Such learning will help child to address more formal spelling and reading work before they enter primary one.

Math

When children in Montessori are introduced to maths they are encouraged to link the abstract with the concrete, for example children learn to see the number 2 corresponds of 2 counters. With practice they go on to learn the decimal system, teens, hundreds, and thousands. When the children are able to recognise number, they go on to explore addition and subtraction, than complex concepts like multiplication and division. Other math concepts such as patterning, money, time, measurement and fractions are taught.

Knowledge & Understanding of the World

Specialised Montessori materials are utilised to teach about science, history, biology and geography. The child develop an initial knowledge and understanding of other cultures and the magic of the natural world. Children are given the opportunity to explore all this concept using a variety of exciting hands-on materials.

Art, Music, Drama, and Physical Education

Various forms of art, craft work and cookery are introduced to the children. As the children learn to think and create for themselves, they begin to develop preference character and a positive self-worth. Drama is a special love of many children this age it helps to develop children listening, concentrating and speaking skills.

We offer a spacious and safe outdoor play area with a range of equipment. Always our emphasis is on skill building, to develop consciousness and control of movement, to enhance personal confidence, and to teach techniques and values of teamwork and cooperation.

Mandarin

Preschool children learn mainly through play and activities. Our Mandarin programme capitalize on children’s play to further language and vocabulary development using storytelling, rhyming games, art, drama, dance and music.
Academic begins to take priority in kindergarten classrooms example letter recognition, phonics and numbers.

La Petite Carousel

Ages: 2years to 3 years old
Days: 2x,3x,4x or Daily
Ages: 3years to 6 years
Days: Daily
Time: 9.00am-12.00pm
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Extended Day

Ages: 3years to 6 years old
Time: 9.00am-2.00pm

Mandarin Immersion

Days: Tuesday & Thursday only
Time: 9.00am-12.00pm

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Mommy & Me Montessori

Parent/child classes are an opportunity for children and their parents, to experience some time learning together in a Montessori environment.

This programme provides an ideal opportunity for parent education through observation, discussion sessions, and other resources to help the adult grow in their role as parents.

Programme details……

Who?

Child with Mommy, Dad or Caregiver

When?

Tuesday @ 3pm to 4.15pm
Saturday @ 9am to 10.15am

*Children can join anytime as long as classes are available.

Montessori Phonics/ Reading

The objective of the course is to help your child learn how to read and write through Montessori graded phonics materials.

This programme will cover :
- Sound of the 26 alphabet letters
- Blending the phonetic sounds together to build words
- Identify vowel and consonant
- Develop vocabulary
- Improve listening skills
- Develop sight word recognition skills

There will be 4 levels for this programme.
Level 1: 3 letters blend (cat, dog, bat, etc)
Level 2: 4 letters or more (hand, clog, brick, etc)
Level 3: Phonogram ( sh,ch,th, etc)
Level 4: Noun, Singular and Plural. Article, Adjective, Verb & Creative writing

We have incorporated a specially selected reading series to enhance the child’s reading abilities.

Who?

Children ages 4 years to 7 years old

When?

Saturdays

Time?

10.30am~12.00pm
12.30pm~2.00pm
2.15pm~3.45pm