THE 3 TO 6-YEAR OLD GROUP
Our class is a learning place in which your child will blossom, be educated and open up to the world, happy to learn and discover.
In this class, we welcome 28 to 32 children, under the supervision of one French-speaking teacher, one English-speaking teacher and one English-speaking assistant teacher, all trained by the Maria Montessori Institute (AMI). In this classroom, your child is guided and supported in his individual development. He benefits from a prepared and adapted environment. The available material enables our children to take care of themselves and the environment as well as integrating their social group’s habits and culture. The material also invites our children to explore - according to their interests of the moment, their rhythm and their personality. It enables our children to practice and improve their fine-motor skills, to develop their concentration and attention, to control their movements and to coordinate them. Our material aims at helping children to have a full control of themselves. |
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All the available activities will help your child become independent and make him feel that he, alone, is capable of maintaining order and taking care of his environment, without asking for any adult’s help or appraisal.
Apart from developing fine-motor skills, the material aims at developing mental processes.
The child gets used to question, to think, to judge and to evaluate.
The material enables our children to stimulate, develop and refine their five senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell) and because of its cultural wealth, the material also allows our children to be open to the world: vocabulary enrichment, new words learning, world maps, country maps.
We welcome new comers during the school year, depending on our availabilities.
Activities in the 3 to 6-year-old group:
lace shoes, tie knots, pour and transfer, screw and unscrew, soak up and clean, open and close a door softly…
shapes, sounds (pairing and gradation), dimensions, weights, temperatures, volumes…
glossaries, classified pictures (by theme) and stories, learning of letters and their sound, writing and reading discovery. |
understanding of operation mechanisms and tables memorization…
drawing, painting, sticking, bells (musical notes) …
discovery of the world around us via the manipulation of our puzzle maps of Europe and other continents, comprehension of the notion of Time via a representation of different ages…
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Apart from the available material and the Positive Discipline input, our team members organize, in turns, during the gatherings, yoga and relaxation sessions. They also set up exercises which help our children to develop their inhibiting control, their abilities to pay attention, to concentrate, to memorize and to listen.
Our gatherings are also good opportunities to put social rules in place, to share, to respect one another, to listen to each other and to think all together about important themes which can help children to develop (feelings, differences…).
Our gatherings are also good opportunities to put social rules in place, to share, to respect one another, to listen to each other and to think all together about important themes which can help children to develop (feelings, differences…).
A day for the 3 to 6-year-old group:
8h15-8h45: Children’s gradual arrival and beginning of the Montessori work
8h45: beginning of the Montessori work for the last children
11h10-11h20: clean up time
11h20: children gathering for a group activity time (songs, story-telling, yoga sessions, concentration exercises, sharing times that encourage socialization) and outdoor recess
12h30: lunch time
13h30: preparation for naptime and naptime for the children who take a nap, or workshops (half group) for the children who don’t take a nap anymore – the other half goes back to the Montessori work in the classroom
15h00-15h30: gradual waking up. Children go back to the Montessori work
16h15-16h30: outdoor recess
8h45: beginning of the Montessori work for the last children
11h10-11h20: clean up time
11h20: children gathering for a group activity time (songs, story-telling, yoga sessions, concentration exercises, sharing times that encourage socialization) and outdoor recess
12h30: lunch time
13h30: preparation for naptime and naptime for the children who take a nap, or workshops (half group) for the children who don’t take a nap anymore – the other half goes back to the Montessori work in the classroom
15h00-15h30: gradual waking up. Children go back to the Montessori work
16h15-16h30: outdoor recess