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Independence, motor skills, and executive function skills
Confidence and joy comes from being the master of your body and mind, from being able to do for yourself, rather than being dependent on others. In the Practical Life area of the Montessori preschool classroom, children learn, step-by-step, how to take care of their own needs, and how to contribute to their community. They prepare snack. They clean up after themselves. They take care of plants. They paint, draw, cut, sew. Engaged by the adult activities that preschoolers urgently want to participate in, they develop gross and fine motor skills, build their attention span—and become independent, capable, confident young people ready to tackle the opportunities of elementary school.
Where young scientists are born
Children are learning to observe carefully and to categorize and organize their ideas, so they can easily recall what they learn in elementary and into their college experience. The scientifically-designed Montessori sensorial exercises—pairing and grading, matching exercises, blocks and more—focus a child’s attention on attributes such as size, color, musical tone. Children learn to tune in and use all their senses to explore their world to the fullest. They develop the ability to see, hear, smell, even taste and touch deliberately—and gain the broad vocabulary needed to describe and conceptualize their observations and experiences.
A joyful way to learn to write, then read—by kindergarten
Learning to write and read can be a struggle for six- or seven-year-olds. In Montessori, it’s a joy—for four- and five-year-olds! Dr. Montessori discovered that the best age to learn to write and read effortlessly is in preschool. With Montessori materials—such as Sandpaper Letters to associate shape and sound—most Montessori preschoolers who join LePort by age three are well on their way to being readers by age six. As each child is different, and instruction in Montessori is individualized, some children won’t read well by age six. Even children with learning differences, though, benefit from the phonetic, hands-on approach to writing and reading, and the ability to identify emerging difficulties early, when intervention is most productive.
A love of math at a young age—and a confidence in working with large numbers
Math in Montessori goes far beyond counting. With colorful, carefully sequenced, hands-on materials, Montessori children discover the meaning of the four operations of arithmetic, and add, subtract, multiply, and divide with numbers into the thousands, far exceeding Kindergarten standards. Most importantly, they learn to enjoy working with numbers and are well prepared to enthusiastically embrace math in elementary school.
Building the background knowledge needed for reading comprehension
One key difference between students who flourish in later elementary school, and those who flounder, is the amount of knowledge they have of the world. Reading comprehension requires knowing the subject you read about. Montessori preschool systematically builds a child’s vocabulary at a time when the child’s mind is ready to absorb words like a sponge (what Dr. Montessori called the Absorbent Mind). Leaf shapes (a cordate leaf), geometry (trapezoid), names of countries, types of rock (metamorphic), animal and plants (pistil and petals): the world is the Montessori child’s oyster, and the pearls of learning a child takes with them after three years in Montessori preschool and kindergarten are beautiful.
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