For 3 to 6 years old
Greentree Montessori Prepared environment is to provide security and promote interest in learning. The child is free to move and work within an atmosphere of order, made possible by ground rules and absorbing didactic materials.
The didactic material and ground rules of the Montessori environment provides a flexible structure and "organization of work" enabling children to occupy themselves constructively in relative freedom. Children can immerse themselves in the materials and exercises that furnish the "motive of activity" as Montessori termed their allure. "The ground rules" protect each child's work from the disruption of other children. The long block of time enables the child to concentrate upon a particular task for as long as he/she wants
In our Montessori environment, emphasis is on the intrinsic reward of self-development rather than on prizes and punishments. A child is free to help another, if invited by that child. The typical age range of three years in a class offers the advantages of a non-grade situation. The older children can directly help the younger, or the latter may learn simply by watching their older classmates. Montessori children admire one another's work. They share responsibility for "school keeping" tasks and can work in large or small groups as circumstances dictate.
The importance of the earlier "formative" years for absorbing language is recognized, and the "sensitive period" for reading and writing are utilized. There are materials and exercises designed to impart and improve skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
The child can exercise his sense of touch fully with the large selection of readily available materials that enables him to learn intuitively the various principles and rules of mathematics, language, science, geography and history. He can move to the more complex and abstract exercises after sufficient practice and preparation.
Children in Greentree Montessori are the master learner and will fully develop in this critical stage of human development. They are given opportunity to excel and enrich in the Practical Life Skills exercises, where movement and kinesthetic Intelligence, musical and arts appreciation are the cornerstones; the Sensorial Education which materializes the abstraction and prepares children for their logical mathematics intelligence and spatial intelligent. Finally, the Academic Education where language, bilingual exposition, arithmetic and social studies are versatile for each child's moments of interest and an effective presentation will be given at the summit of self-motivated moment.
