Day care

• Independence – The curriculum I prepared to help the child to become physically independent of the adult.
• Choice – The environment gives the child the opportunity to choose what he/she wants to work with form a range of activities that are suitable to his/her developmental needs.
• Freedom – The child is given freedom to work with an activity for as long as he/she desires. This allows the child to explore the material and to master the activity.
• Mixed age group – This arrangement foster’s children to learn from each other. The classroom functions as a community that shares and cares.
• Movement – Children are allowed to move freely in the environment to choose their activity of interest, to work independently or in small groups.
• Trial & Error – The materials are self-corrective that allows the child to correct his work and to understand that we learn from our mistakes.
• Montessori Materials – The materials in the environment act as key to the child’s development. They are sequential and as the child progresses the level of difficulty also increases.
• Teachers – Teachers act as mentors. They direct the child’s learning rather than teaching and help in bringing out the best in each child by building on their strengths and working with them in their weakness.

Education is a natural process carried out by the human individual and acquired not by experiences in the environment ~ Maria Montessori