Island Parent Magazine Winter 2023
Vancouver Island’s Parenting Resource for 35 Years: Independent Schools & Education Guide • Choosing the Right School • Why Choose a Private School? • Raising Active Kids • Tweens & Teens
Vancouver Island’s Parenting Resource for 35 Years: Independent Schools & Education Guide • Choosing the Right School • Why Choose a Private School? • Raising Active Kids • Tweens & Teens
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the previous one. Once individual students<br />
are given a lesson, they can move<br />
freely around the classroom, working<br />
with classroom materials or on follow-up<br />
projects.<br />
What can you expect from a<br />
Montessori school?<br />
Preschool and kindergarten: Classrooms<br />
in a Montessori school for children<br />
from 3 to 6 years old are often<br />
called Children’s Houses, after her first<br />
Montessori school, the Casa dei Bambini<br />
in Rome in 1906. This level is also called<br />
“Primary.” The teacher usually presents<br />
activities; then the children depending on<br />
their interests may choose which skills<br />
they want to focus on. In early childhood,<br />
Montessori students learn through<br />
sensory-motor activities, working with<br />
materials to develop learning through all<br />
five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling,<br />
touching and movement.<br />
Elementary: Classrooms for this age<br />
are usually referred to as “Elementary”<br />
and can range in size from very small up<br />
to 30 or more children, typically staffed<br />
by a trained teacher and one or more assistants.<br />
In the elementary years, a child<br />
continues to organize thinking through<br />
work with the Montessori method; essentially<br />
beginning the application of<br />
knowledge to real-world experiences.<br />
Classroom materials and lessons include<br />
work in language, mathematics, history,<br />
the sciences, the arts and much<br />
more. Montessori students learn to think<br />
critically, work collaboratively and act<br />
boldly—a skill ideal for life in the 21st<br />
century.<br />
No matter which grade level your<br />
child belongs to, it is collectively known<br />
that all kinds of learning styles will be<br />
cultivated at Montessori school including:<br />
musical, bodily-kinaesthetic, spatial,<br />
interpersonal, intrapersonal, intuitive<br />
and the traditional linguistic and logicalmathematical<br />
(reading, writing and<br />
math).<br />
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