Montessori at Teach na Leanai Childcare
Our children learn through imagination, creativity and play. Through our Montessori methods children are taught the fundamentals of reading, writing, mathematics, workbooks, language, culture, drama and plays.
Our aim is to ensure that children who leave our school have a sound educational grounding and to ensure they enter mainstream school happy and confident.When your child has completed the Montessori programme at Teach na Leanai and the time arrives for your child to enter ‘big school” he/she will be more than ready to cope with the transition.
Our method of Montessori teaching is founded on key areas, Personal Social and Emotional Development, Early Math’s, Language, Creative Development, Physical Development and Understanding and Appreciation of the world.
Children’s work is displayed in our classroom and sent home weekly, and at the end of the year we hold our Graduation where the children are presented with their certificates and scrapbook of their years class work, also pictures of events to remember for, parents to cherish for years to come.
The Montessori Method has been in operation at Teach na Leanai for the last 30 years. Montessori is an educating approach for the children based on the research and experiences of Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori (1870-1952).
It arose in the process of her experimental observation of young children given freedom in an environment this led her to believe that she had discovered “the child’s true normal nature”. The use of the hands is extremely important in Montessori as it permits the child to engage or work with different equipment thinking willingly and the exercise of memory unconsciously constructed in the previous period of their lives (0-3) to be now inserted consciously by the children in their awareness and guide their activities. The Montessori Method is then based on observation, an activity is taken out by the teacher and showed to the class in a quiet and calm way repeated in the corrected way, the environment is prepared with materials designed for the self-directed learning of the activity through the repetitive method of doing the activity over and over again and they eventually learn to appreciate that education is a natural development process not something which teachers do.