Why Choose Montessori Learning?
In our Montessori classroom, children are surrounded and enveloped by an enriched learning environment specifically designed for early childhood, where they’re given the freedom to develop their skills, senses and knowledge at their own pace and of their own freewill. Our loving teachers and learning materials serve as guides to the children as they each partake on their own scared journey of learning. All the while, children develop independence and self-confidence through participation in teacher guided circle time, group activities and playtime.
“A child who has become master of his acts through long and repeated exercises, and who has been encouraged by the pleasant and interesting activities in which he has been engaged, is a child filled with health and joy and remarkable for his calmness and discipline.” — Maria Montessori, The Discovery of the Child
Ripple Montessori’s Curriculum
Practical Life Area
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In a Montessori classroom, the area we first introduce to children is usually the practical life area. The practical life area can be divided into four parts: Basic movement practice, Care of yourself, Care of the environment and Grace and Courtesy. As the foundation of Montessori education, the practical life area embodies the goals of Montessori Education - independence, coordination, concentration, sense of order, self-confidence and social skills.
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Real activities can help children realize their sense of responsibility and their importance. Children will feel trusted in this real and purposeful activity. Furthermore, Dr. Montessori believed that the learning materials help children develop focus and concentration.
Math Area
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The Montessori mathematics education follows the logical principle from shallow to deep, from simple to complex, and from easy to difficult. The system uses a large number of concrete learning materials as it presents to children the six foundations of the mathematics world: the correspondence between numbers and quantities, linear counting, decimal system, number sentences, memorization practice, and abstract thinking.
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Developing a good math background sets up the foundation for other important learning areas like time, history, science, music…etc.
Sensorial Area
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Montessori's sensorial education includes five senses: vision, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling. These five senses correspond to the five sensory organs of our body, eyes, hands, ears, mouth and nose. Children aged 3 to 6 begin to develop their ability to think and associate with images. Being able to correspond things through direct perception of touch, hear, taste and sight help children hone their rational skills.
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The sensorial education of Montessori education aims to grasp the order sensitive period of children, achieve the purpose of refining and improving children's visual ability, auditory ability, taste ability, smelling ability and touching ability with the help of sensory aids, and exercise children's concentration at the same time. When children operate sensory teaching aids, they will continuously accumulate perceptual experience, and gradually form abstract concepts on the basis of perceptual experience, which is the basis of mathematics learning; Develop the ability to observe, compare, analyze, judge, make decisions, solve problems and appreciate beautiful things in activities such as pairing, sorting and classification.
Language Area
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Montessori believed that language should be part of a child's daily life. Through a familiar environment and his personal experience, a child will enhance the language he has assimilated. Understanding the characteristics and natural rules of children's language development is a premise for us to be able to better help them develop their language skills. Early language education must follow the natural rules of children's acquisition of language.
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Dr. Montessori believed that aside from developing language skills, the purpose of language education should be to cultivate the child's full personality. The key to language education for 3 to 6 years old children is to boost children's self-confidence in using language to express themselves.
Art Area
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In our Montessori classroom, every child is a little artist, they have an unfettered heart, the talent of artistic creation, have unlimited creativity. Tao Xingzhi, a famous Chinese educator, once said: "We have discovered that children have creativity, and when we realize that children have creativity, we must further liberate children's creativity." The Montessori environment naturally gives children the space to create, provides an environment of encouragement and non-judgment, and helps children acquire the most basic artistic skills so that they can freely express themselves and everything they observe.
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Art provides a means for self-expression and communication. Creating art helps children express themselves in ways that may be difficult to articulate with words, allowing them to communicate their emotions, experiences, and ideas.
Music Area
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Music exists everywhere in Montessori education. During circle time, teachers play different kinds of music. Children can feel the changing of intensity, tone or quality of music and develop their sense of rhythm. Children learn the difference in rhythm through movement such as walking fast or slow or walking and then stopping. These are good exercises for children to refine their auditory discrimination and to foster their musical talents.
Of course, Montessori Education Also Has Specific Teaching Materials for Teaching Music - Sound Cylinders and Bells.
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In Montessori music, everything is flexible and can be controlled or adjusted. Children do not only interpret music by their physical movements but also by their enthusiasm and love for it. Children gradually refine and enrich themselves in the class through these musical activities.
Geography Area
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Dr. Montessori said: "I can't take my children around the world, but I can bring the whole world into the classroom."
The geography work of Montessori’s 3-6-year-old class mainly includes the understanding of the elements of the earth, the understanding of the globe, the understanding of world geography, continent geography and national geography, the understanding of topography and landforms, etc.
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Geography is a key to children's understanding of the universe and the world. Children build a cosmological and worldview by learning geography. Through the study of geography, children come into contact with, absorb, accept and appreciate various cultures, and at the same time understand and affirm themselves, helping them establish their own concept of self and cultural understanding of their own roots.
History Area
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History is the inheritance, accumulation and expansion of culture. History is the recording and tracking of human civilization. How will you present it to your children yesterday, today, and tomorrow? How do we record the lifeline of our children?
For example, we celebrate children's birthdays in the Montessori way. This is the most direct experience for children to experience "history."
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Every job in the historical education area is based on the lives of children. The history education area allows us to travel through time and space and become magical people. Learn about seconds, minutes, hours, a day, a week, a month, a year, ten years, past and present…
Science Area
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Children are natural observers. They are fascinated by the phenomenon found in the natural world.
As Montessori teachers, we realize that when children are given the ability to learn about what interests them, they are more actively engaged and cognizant of their own learning. We present our Montessori students with the wonder of the universe in order for them to grasp the cosmic wonder and interdependence of life around them so that they are better prepared to understand their own place in the universe. The plant and animal are studied as well as botany, weather, magnets, energy, and machines.
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Through our science area, children gain knowledge such as plants, five basic elements, living and non-living, sound, air, electricity/thunder, biology…etc. Most important of all children gain important understanding and curiosity of what make up the world around them.