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Pre-primary
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"To aid life, leaving it free however to unfold itself, that
is the basic task of the educator."
Dr. Maria Montessori
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Harbour Oaks
provides a prepared environment to meet the needs of the child.
Children work individually and cooperatively with materials that
engage their curiosity through the senses. Each child has
freedom to explore and to observe. The materials are
scientifically designed to engage the child with math and
language, writing and reading, art and music - the tools of
abstract reasoning and communication, and the basis of creative
imagination and self-directed learning.
Curriculum
Practical Life:
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Taking Care of Self
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Taking Care of the
Classroom
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Grace & Courtesy Skills
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Control of Movement
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Manipulatives
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Sensorial: |
Sizes, Shapes, Colors
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Textures,
Temperature, Weight
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Smelling, Tasting,
and Feeling
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Sound
Discrimination
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Language:
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Matching & Sorting
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Vocabulary Building
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Stories, Songs, Poems
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Picture Cards
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Feeling Objects,
Shapes
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Number Concepts: |
Ordering of Numbers |
Sandpaper Numbers |
Number Recognition |
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Counting Activities
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Science |
Toilet Learning |
Music/Movement |
Art Activities
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Independence Skills |
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Dr. Maria Montessori believed that no human being is educated by another person. He must do it himself or it will never be done. A truly educated individual continues learning long after the hours and years he spends in the classroom because he is motivated from within by a natural curiosity and love for knowledge. Dr. Montessori felt, therefore, that the goal of early childhood education should not be to fill the child with facts from a preselected course of studies, but rather to cultivate his own natural desire to learn.
"...the secret of good teaching is to regard the children's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination. Our aim therefore is not merely to make the children understand, and still less to force them to memorize, but so to touch their imagination as to enthuse them to their inmost core. We do not want complacent children but eager ones... " Dr. Maria Montessori
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