Elementary: Ages 6-12

Learning How To Learn

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Our elementary program is dramatically different from traditional systems of elementary education.  Each child learns at his/her own pace under the careful guidance of a trained Montessori teacher who consistently tracks progress and helps them build on their own personal best in each subject.  The child is encouraged to expand their own current understanding and skills rather than to compete/compare against others to determine their level of success.  This enables many children to far exceed traditional state standards and produces an atmosphere of cooperation, peace, confidence, and personal excellence. We serve children in the groupings of 6-9 years old (or 1st-3rd grades) and 9-12 years old (or 3rd-6th grades).

Mentoring other students and being mentored by them is also key to the success of our elementary classroom.  The Montessori Method of education flows naturally with child development; at the elementary age, a child is very inspired to learn and explore with friends.  Within certain guidelines that keep this mentoring process happening peacefully,  the children can work in small groups and help one another according to their skills and strengths. They are encouraged to ask for help from other students. This perceived empowerment of their peers and of themselves creates a lasting confidence and a certainty of competence that would be impossible for an adult to impart. Of all the gifts of Montessori, this self-trust and proactive empowerment may be one of the greatest, as it is life-long when it is established in a child of this age.

Other important aspects of our Montessori elementary classroom include freedom of choice, the freedom to move around the classroom as opposed to being confined to a desk, peaceful problem-solving, social skills, a sense of belonging in a community, responsibility, and a lifelong love of learning. 

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One of the things you see when you enter an elementary Montessori classroom is joy, excitement, and enthusiasm. These are not children who are given papers and workbooks day after day. These children are allowed the opportunity to be engaged.

Our Elementary Montessori Program is dedicated to strengthening children's minds, hands, and hearts for leading lives of wonder, work, and love. A Montessori plan for the elementary-aged child builds on the foundation established in the primary years and prepares them for the adolescent years ahead. It is designed specifically to meet their developmental needs through a child-centered and whole-child (intellectual, social, moral, physical, and spiritual) approach. The aim of this program is to nurture the child's natural drive to learn so that their potentialities in the following areas may flourish:

  • Self-Reflection - self-concept increasingly shifts to one that is relational with a willingness to begin learning more about the human condition and examine the question, "Who am I?"

  • Independence - confidence and competence in expanding abilities while mastering new tasks over time

  • Curiosity - becoming voraciously self-motivated and inquisitive in following his/her interests, from asking "how?" and "why?" to asking “Why not?” or “What if?”

  • Moral and Social Formation - becoming increasingly oriented to the developmental tasks of social roles; and sense of justice.

  • Joy - motivation to learn is increasingly intrinsic and grounded in autonomy, interest, competence, and relatedness

  • Reverence - feeling or attitude of deep respect and awe for the world of nature, history, and the contributions of our ancestors

  • Gratitude - readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness

  • Empathy - understanding another person's condition from their perspective to increase prosocial (helping) behaviors

  • Self-Determination - natural intrinsic tendencies to behave in effective and healthy ways for a life of learning

  • Interdependence - developing an increasing awareness of the bonds and relatedness between things.

Interested in our Elementary Program?

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What is language but one of the stories human beings have written themselves, the achievement of the discovery of the power residing in the mind of man, to have ideas and to communicate them to others?

-Margaret Elizabeth Stephenson, AMI Trainer