Children's House
Designed to entice children to activity, carefully prepared materials are considered to become “motives for activity” through which a child develops confidence, self-esteem, and consideration for others, as well as basic cognitive understandings.
The mixed-age primary classrooms contain children ranging in age from 2 years, 9 months by August 31st, to 6 years of age.
The Montessori Children’s House environment is divided into five areas:
Activities are designed to help children learn how to successfully manage their environment. These activities include care of self (shoe polishing, zipping, buttoning), care of the environment (dusting, scrubbing, sweeping, mopping), food preparation, and gardening.
Introduces a particular physical quality perceived by the senses, and used to describe and categorize the world, such as color, dimension, and weight.
Capitalizes on young children’s natural sensitivity to the human language which surrounds them. Teachers expose children to all kinds of rich oral language, as well as introduces them to materials designed to give them the tools for developing and practicing writing and reading.
Is filled with materials that give children years of practice working with concrete manifestations of abstract mathematical concepts, such as linear counting, the decimal system, geometric shapes, and mathematical functions. The math materials build on the child’s experience in the Sensorial Area.
Includes art, history, geography, music and science.
Children’s House may be enrolled for a full day or half day; either three, or five days a week in the 9:00 am-12:00 pm session and may stay for Lunch Bunch from Noon-1:00 p.m.
Children's House Tuition
Children’s House (2 years 9 months old by August 31):
| Program | Annual Tuition | 12 Payments |
|---|---|---|
| Full Day | $12,848 | $375.00 |
| 5-Day | $$7,915 | $659.58 |
| 3-Day | $4,860 | $405.00 |
| 2-Day | $2,904 | $242.00 |