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Want
to return your child to Montessori education
now that there is a Primary School option
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New
to the community? Looking for a quality Primary
School? Gisborne Montessori catchments include
Gisborne surrounding areas and Moonee Valley
and Brunswick / Coburg. |
Read on…
What is Cycle 2 and Cycle
3 (Primary)
Once a sound foundation has been acquired
the primary children are well able to build their
knowledge base. The areas of mathematics, geometry,
language and literacy, science, cultural studies,
geography, history, art, music, are extended as
the child's readiness is apparent.
"If the child is not intellectually
stimulated during the elementary (primary) years…
the child's mind becomes artificially dulled."
Dr Maria Montessori
Lessons parallel studies undertaken
in mainstream schools, and include trips outside
of the classroom to foster a feeling of connection
to the community and encourage the child's natural
desire to make contributions to the world.
Learning is an active process
of accessing many different concrete materials
as well as revisiting some of the earlier equipment,
from a new perspective as the children's ability
to imagine and abstract develops.
The children will work with
reference books, make their own books, draw their
own maps or time lines, and develop their own
projects.
Children move from the concrete
through their own efforts and discovery to the
abstract - thus greatly expanding their field
of knowledge.
Through imagination children
learn to co-ordinate this abstract movement of
their mind. They take imaginative steps based
on the detail they have been given.
The primary school student
begins to explore moral issues. Who am I? What
is my place in this universe? What is good and
bad?
The Montessori curriculum for
the primary years is built around the five great
lessons:
- creation of earth
- coming of plants and animals
- the arrival of humans
- development of language
- math and inventions
The child learns to love these
studies developing a fascination with all aspects
of the world around them and an enormous desire
to investigate, research and explore.
These five lessons grow to
include such topics as algebra, square and cube
roots, geometry, botany, zoology, evolution and
classification, chemistry and physics experiments,
the history of math and language, grammar and
sentence analysis and so on.
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