The Pre-School Program which includes Playgroup, Pre-School & Pre-Kindergarten is purposefully designed for children from 18months to 4 years, so each child may grow and develop at his or her own pace. Care is taken in choosing equipment and planning curriculum to provide a wide range of activities and experiences. They are designed to meet child’s physical, emotional, social, and intellectual needs. Our trained staff will introduce your child to a well prepared environment, structured work stations, name recognition, color awareness, geometrical shapes, and phonics. A child-centered learning process that respect each child as an individual and fosters self motivation. Children are free to move around and work with materials because “Movement starts the intellect working”.
(Maria Montessori, Her Life and Work).
We engage the children in practical life exercises; for fine and gross motor skill development, care of self, care of the environment plus social grace and courtesy which prepares them for future learning.
Development of concentration, order, confidence, independence, eye hand co-ordination, wrist and finger muscle development, left to right and top to bottom concepts are forms the bulk of the curriculum in practical life. These activities actualize “Normalization”. We refine their sense through the use of sensorial materials because children learn through their senses. “Hand is the instrument of man’s intelligence”. (Montessori Absorbent Mind, Chapt. 3, Pg. 25).