Montessori Centre Academy

Our environment is designed to maximize independent learning and peer teaching to promote individual responsibility in exploring all subject areas.  Fourth through sixth grade children are presented a gifted curriculum that allows them to develop research skills, participate in small group projects and classes in advanced placement.

• The method provides an opportunity for children in Toddler to Preschool (2 years to 6 years) to become scientists, verifying their world of knowledge through manipulations (beads, puzzles, cubing materials, botany charts, zoology classification, history timelines, etc.) discovering and then verifying the data.  The child's sense of knowing does not come from skills taught by rote/memory, but a major shift that he is the knower, investigating his world . . . the classroom, his community, the state, the continent, and the world.

• The multi-age grouping of the children provides varied interest and ability levels for your child to absorb, imitate, create and interact with other children.  The curriculum diversity and content in subject areas that network information processing not only in one subject but provides cross patterns of information relative to all subjects, called cosmic education.  The child's understanding is imprinted in a continuum of knowing.

• The Montessori child of 6 to 9 and 9 to 12 has absorbed from the 3 to 6 class a different mode of handling himself, his learning and his socialization which differs from traditional schooling.  The learning environment focuses not only on the present academic needs but the future.

• Spanish is introduced in Kindergarten and developed through the sixth grade.  The enriching benefits of a Spanish program aid the elementary child in language acquisition.  Spanish is taught through games, stories, objects, music in  Kindergarten.  First, Second, and Third Grade classes use a hands on approach to understanding the language.  Fourth through Sixth Grades have Spanish four times per week.  Not only do they learn the language, but they are immersed in the culture as well. 

• All children have specialized reading classes with a reading specialist.  The reading text is literature based.   This develops critical thinking, understanding different genres, and a love of reading.  Periodically through their years, children have been exposed to bridge, chess, ballroom dancing, and square dancing.  The sixth grade is involved in a specialized advanced writing class.  This writing class is back to back with the reading of the Great Books classes.  Reading of the Great Books begins in third grade.  First and second grades use the Open Court texts.    

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