Welcome to Quemazon Montessori School

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Quemazon Montessori is Open

We are currently accepting applications for the
Fall Session beginning on August 10, 2020

About Quemazon Montessori School

A Place to Shine!
Established in 2001

Quemazon Montessori offers two programs for children ranging in age from 6 weeks through 5 years.

The Infant/Toddler/Tranistion Programs

The infant/Toddler/Transition Programs are open to children from ~6 weeks to ~3 years of age. Its focus is to respect this period in the young child’s life as a constructive, developmental period in and of itself. The staff and learning environment promote the development of a sense of order, language, sensory skills, and the formation of fundamental concepts through experimentation and the manipulation of object.

The Early Childhood Program

The Early childhood Program is available to children ranging from ~3 through 5 years of age, and is the natural next step after the Infant/Toddler/Transition Programs. It is in this period that a child’s inherent desire to learn becomes apparent. During this phase of a child’s education, concentration, coordination, independence, and a sense of order are encouraged. Parents will see their children developing initiative, inner discipline, and a deep respect for themselves, others, and their environment.

The Key Learning Areas of Montessori

Practical Life

includes life skills to help develop independence, coordination, concentration, self-control, self-awareness, confidence and include:

Care of Self - food preparation, dressing, washing
Care of Environment cleaning, gardening, environmentalism
Grace and Courtesy- greetings, manners, social interactions
Control of Movement -refining movements, walking the line, moving quietly

Sensory

activities allow the children to refine each of their senses:

Sight - visual
Touch - tactile
Smell - olfactory
Taste - gustatory
Sound - auditory
Stereognostic - kinaesthetic

Includes the manipulation of specifically designed materials that isolate qualities. Refines fine motor skills, visual and auditory senses and develops coordination and the ability to order and classify. Materials include Pink Tower, Brown Stairs, Knobbed Cylinders, Color Tablets.

Language

is based on phonetic awareness. Activities draw from the practical life and the sensory sensitivity that the children have developed in order to learn to write their names, when physiologically ready, and to attach sounds to letters and symbols so that they can begin to read.

Math

activities enable children to form one-to-one correspondence, understand sets of items, numerals, and number operations. Hands-on materials are used such as number rods, sandpaper numbers, number boards, spindle box, number tiles, beads and games. Each exercise builds upon another and the child gradually moves to from concrete to abstract.