GREENBRIER
MONTESSORI SCHOOL
“Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.”
-Maria Montessori
Curriculum
In our classrooms, each curriculum area has its own set of materials placed on child-sized shelves to allow for free choice. From the Toddler Program to the Elementary Program, the curriculum is designed to provide integrated age-appropriate experiences, tailored to the particular stage of development, and centered around a child’s sensitive periods of learning.
The emphasis of the curriculum is to empower children of all learning styles and to develop their independent growth.The classroom materials, designed by Dr. Montessori, isolate a specific skill or concept. Children choose materials and work at their own pace. This practice allows for the inner mastery of the isolated skill the material offers. Adults and children treat each other and the materials with respect.
Toddler Program
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Our Toddler Program provides children with an opportunity to explore new relationships with friends and to interact with adults in a loving and nurturing environment. Toddlers are introduced to age-appropriate Montessori materials and invited to make choices from a variety of activities that support their developmental interests and needs.
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Their sense of autonomy is encouraged and self-esteem is enhanced through social and learning experiences. The emphasis on the program is on the rudiments of movement, socialization and language development.
Early Childhood
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The Primary class is taught by a certified Montessori teacher and an assistant teacher. Classes have mixed age groupings, allowing younger children to learn from the activities of the older children, and providing the older children the opportunity to teach and nurture the younger children.
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The Montessori Primary classroom is a relaxed yet stimulating environment, where children may learn in a non-competitive fashion at their own pace. The results are a love of learning, a positive self-image, and a sense of self-direction that form a strong foundation for future growth.
Elementary Program
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Children between the ages of six and twelve develop a reasoning mind that asks why and how things happen in the world. The children’s own questions, then, provide the basis for their explorations. And what better answer to their questions, Maria Montessori said, then to provide them with the Universe itself?
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With their ability to think abstractly and the power of their imaginations to “see” what cannot be seen, the Universe is the limit for their search.
