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TODDLER PROGRAM
Dr. Maria Montessori
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Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.
TODDLER PROGRAM
Joining the Montessori Academy Toddler Program, your child will enter an environment planned and prepared especially for her age group involving social interaction with other children, development of language skills, care of oneself and the environment, food preparation, and music and movement activities.
SENSORIAL
The sensorial apparatus helps your child become aware of details. Each material isolates one quality such as color, shape, sound, and size. The materials begin with gross differences and work toward finer differences.
MATH AND LANGUAGE
Math and Language areas are simple, basic and usually approached on a sensorial level. Numbers and letters are introduced using sandpaper cards. Language is given whenever possible using the various materials in the classroom.
MOVEMENT
Movement is essential for young children. They learn through active involvement in their environment. Movement will help your child learn body control. It is divided into balance, body awareness, locomotion, non-locomotion and tracking.
The Montessori Academy Toddler Program aims to have young children develop coordination, body image and awareness, a sense of order, and concentration. Through careful observation of the children, teachers are able to connect each child to whatever aspect of the environment will enhance his physical, psychological and social development. Teachers are always looking out for the “sensitive periods” when a child demonstrates a strong interest in a particular activity that is essential to his or her growth.
All furniture is a size that allows maximum independence and the toddler materials are designed so even the youngest child experiences success in his work while the older, or more advanced, child will find stimulating work as well. Activities are attractively displayed on shelves that stimulate and nourish the small child’s sensorial need to smell, touch, hear, see and taste. Activities fall into the following categories:
PRACTICAL LIFE
Practical Life activities aid in the development of your child’s independence and mastery of the environment. Each activity helps him perfect the coordination necessary for work at a later stage with the more academic materials. The materials aid in increasing his concentration and order.