Discovering Minds Montessori Preschool Toronto

(416) 504 0110)

PROGRAM 18 months TO PRESCHOOL AGE.  

Our program is intended CASA (Junior - Senior Kindergarten) 30 months to Pre-school years (6 Years old).  A full range of activities will be offered including music, play, arts and crafts, math, and learning with Montessori materials.  Spanish maybe  introduced through music, songs, puppets stories and reading. 

As we know the period of life between  2 1/2 to 6 years  is marked by rapid physical grow and development of the mind (intelligence).  During these years a child develops his senses rationally and thus lays the foundation for his mental powers.

Registrations will be accepted throughout the year as spaces become available.

1.    Practical Life (“Free me from the adult’s interference”). 

In alike home atmosphere of kindness, community, and respect, in a prepared environment and our material sized  for the child’s hand, will enable him to master the skills of every day life, such as shoe tying, dressing themselves, cleaning, taking care of their environment etc.  Giving the child a meaningful degree of independence and self-discipline.

Practical Life     Sensorial      Language      Mathematics      Culture

2.     Sensorial  “Hand instrument of man’s intelligence"

Senses are points of contact with the environment.

They are essential roots for the child to develop.   Listening does not make a man. The prepared environment, the scientific material and the repetition of activities will assist the child in the development of his senses.    

3.     Language 2.5 to 6  "Writing is a key to a double gain" 

" If you want to teach a child a second language, you must begin before the age of 6. Maria Montessori, Discovering Minds" 

Explosion into reading.  Writing followed by reading.  Through phonetic material and sensorial activities the child will learn vocabulary.  After he is taught the sound of a letter by touching and seeing the symbol, he sends the image to his brain, later the child gets to know that words are his.  The child starts to analyze the words, and then he realizes that to understand them is to use them and to use them is to belong to the world. When the child shows he is ready he will start building single words phonetically.   At the age of five (or five and a half), most of the time, the child will start reading without even noticing.

        Practical Life     Sensorial      Language      Mathematics      Culture

4.    Mathematics    Always from “the concrete to the abstract”.

The child will be introduced to numbers from 1 – 9, then from 0 to 10. 

The child will learn the importance of the zero, units and tens.  With the use of Math Montessori apparatus the child will be able to explore manually, and more importantly, see  and understand the logic behind each equation. After this the child will be introduced to advanced exercises such as adding, subtracting and division and multiplication.

     Practical Life     Sensorial      Language      Mathematics      Culture

5.     Culture

The child will develop global perspective including history and world cultures.  Also he will be emerged to geography, botany, zoology, famous painters and classical music masterpieces. 

     Practical Life     Sensorial      Language      Mathematics      Culture