Montessori Overview

Montessori education offers a unique experience designed to help your child maximize her potential; an educational environment that is purposefully designed to meet her unique developmental needs and adults who are specifically trained to observe and put her in touch with exactly what she needs at that very moment to learn.

A school is a group of people who come together with a common purpose; education is the experience that your child has with these people. At Green River Montessori, we work diligently to provide a positive and formative experience that will serve his/her now and for the rest of his/her life.

The conventional educational system was designed during the industrial revolution, when the masses moved into urban areas to work in factories.

They created an effective method of training the following generations of factory workers. Children were instructed to memorize and regurgitate facts – to stop working when the bell rings – to sit in nice, neat rows of desks and ask for permission to move. It is no longer relevant in our modern culture.

Today, successful people work on projects not factory lines. They are rewarded for creating things rather than following orders. And, they are expected to adapt quickly to change within their profession, rather than working at the same job for 50 years. 

But what exactly is Montessori education?

At its core, it simply is a way of being with children that allows each child to develop fully into the person he was destined to be. Just as you make every effort to ensure that your home is loving and safe – so that your child feels secure and well adjusted – we work diligently to ensure that the physical environment, the teachers and the student community will meet your child’s needs with respect and support at each step in his educational journey.

Instead of expecting that he pay attention to the teacher in front of a class of 30 children, it is the Montessori teacher who pays close attention to your child which fosters a trusting relationship – an education partnership of sorts – in which he will have faith that his teacher truly understands and respects him for the human being into which he is transforming.

Our world doesn’t need more test takers, memorizers or followers.

Now, more than ever, we need critical thinkers, entrepreneurs and do-ers. Montessori education prepares children to take on the future with confidence and zeal, propelled by the gift of self knowledge and a lifelong passion for learning.

Practical Life

At Green River Montessori, we want children to learn and grow by providing them with meaningful, real, practical activities for use in life. The lessons found in the Practical Life area of the classroom provide those real-life experiences for children. In addition, these lessons.

•  Help children to develop independence
•  Promote concentration
•  Encourage taking responsibility
•  Involve large and small muscle development (which helps a child to learn to control their movements)

These Practical Life Montessori lessons may also include:

•  Sewing
•  Pouring liquids
•  Sweeping
•  Dusting
•  Polishing
•  Table washing

Sensorial

At the early preschool age, children are becoming keenly aware of their five senses.
The Sensorial Education area of our classroom helps children develop and sort out all the impressions they are feeling with their senses. Dr. Montessori believed that with the opportunity for a child to explore through sensorial activities, the child would become more intelligent.

Through the use of sight, touch, taste, smell, and sound, a child at Green River Montessori begins to explore, observe, and become aware of the physical world they are in. Sensorial activities help the preschool child learn to discriminate among the various senses and feel a sense of order, and also help prepare him/her to be a logical, aware, and perceptive person. The sensorial materials at GM assist the child in developing an understanding that forms the basis for abstract thought.

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