The Montessori House
Preschool in East Baldwin, ME 04024
The Montessori House offers children a remarkable learning experience based on Maria Montessoris insights and materials.
Each year 80 to 100 pupils participate in a rich variety of programs for children ages 2-1/2 to 7, including half-day, full-day and after care options plus summer camp.
Our student-to-teacher ratio is always less than 10:1 in all our Montessori programs.
The Montessori House invites children into a remarkable environment.
Our classrooms are filled with sunlight and designed to support the Montessori Method. Here children can discover the secrets of language, reading, math, art, music and the wonders of the world around them. Children love our spacious, shaded playground. The Montessori House meets the exacting standards of a Full Member School of the American Montessori Society and exceeds the stringent requirements New Jersey sets for a stand-alone pre-school.Any school can call itself Montessori (no one owns or regulates that term), even if it fails to effectively apply the Montessori Method in the classroom. Consequently, many so-called Montessori schools are anything but!
- Child Ages:
- 2.5 years - 8 years
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- New Jersey Department of Children and Families
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Children per Teacher:
- Infant: -/-, Toddler: 8/1, Pre k: 10/1, Afterschool: 10/1
- Hours of Operation:
- Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 6:00 pm
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Some of the guiding principles of the Montessori philosophy are:
Children learn and grow best in an inviting, enriched, and prepared environment where they are free to choose what interests them. “Follow the child”, taking account of the different developmental paths of each child. All children in a class are not ready for the same lesson at the same time. Only by manipulating physical objects and materials (real, not imaginary things, not video images) can children properly learn and develop. The child’s “work” is to develop the person he or she is to become. He or she cultivates an inner drive toward new discoveries and new achievements. The teachers “work” is to develop and care for the learning environment and attune it to the individual child’s growing needs. The Montessori teacher is a culturally literate facilitator, keeper of the ground rules, demonstrator of the materials, and all-seeing observer. She must be quick to track learning progress and be ready with new materials and lessons geared to the next stages of each child’s growth patterns, needs, and personal inclinations.At The Montessori House you will see a school that effectively applies these principles and the many specific prescriptions and methodologies of the Montessori Method. Visitors who have not before seen a true Montessori classroom are amazed by:
*How each child can productively engage in his or her own work. *The quiet; and the light hand teachers apply to guide the class. *How advanced many of the children are in language