You may have heard of the Montessori program that is developing in schools but do you really know what this means or how it changes your child’s education?

1. What Is The Montessori School
Program & Is It Right For My
Child?
Chesterfield Day School

2. As parents you always want the best for
your children.
When looking for your
child's school, you may
have heard of
Montessori school
programs, but do you
really know what they
are?

3. Montessori Method of Education
Delivers a highly personalized educational
experience for every student.

4. Montessori Method of Education
• Designed to capitalize on a child’s inherent
love of learning to realize his or her highest
potential
• Guarantees exposure to materials and
experiences while developing not only
intelligence but physical and psychological
abilities

5. Montessori Method of Education
Focuses on setting the
right direction for every
student, identifying and
capitalizing on the
child’s strengths in the
right way at the right
time

6. Montessori School Environment
Supports an academically challenging
environment that promotes a love of learning
and fosters concentration, initiative, respect,
and independence.

7. The CDS Montessori Classroom
• Students explore six core areas of study:
– Mathematics
– Language
– Cultural Studies
– Science
– Practical Life
– Sensorial

8. The CDS Montessori Classroom
Language Arts
Engages the attention of children with
books, stories, and a wealth of materials to
encourage writing, reading, true
comprehension and communication.

9. The CDS Montessori Classroom
Language Arts
Provides opportunities
for the development of
all aspects of
communication:
thinking, listening, speaki
ng, reading, and writing

10. The CDS Montessori Classroom
Mathematics
Students work with carefully designed and
sequenced materials that build visual and
muscular memory, a process which allows
children to internalize functions and concepts.

11. The CDS Montessori Classroom
Mathematics
• Students are able to progress with confidence
to more abstract mathematical thinking.
• At every level, children are introduced to
lessons or one-on-one and small-group
activities allowing progress at an
individualized pace.

12. The CDS Montessori Classroom
Cultural Studies
• Cultural Studies curriculum covers two
subject areas:
– Social Studies
– Science

13. The CDS Montessori Classroom
Social Studies
Students are introduced to important
geographical concepts, and develop a respect
for diversity among people, responsibility for
self and the environment, and cooperation
with others.

14. The CDS Montessori Classroom
Science
Students explore biological science through
various outdoor activities while through
experiential learning, students study gravity,
density, magnetism and other phenomenon
which serve as the foundation of many
complex theories.

15. The CDS Montessori Classroom
Practical Life
Throughout the Toddler and Preschool years,
practical life activities are the foundation of
the Montessori curriculum.

16. The CDS Montessori Classroom
Practical Life
They provide a fundamental link between the
child and his/her environment by building
skills and fine motor control that aid in
developing independence.

17. The CDS Montessori Classroom
Sensorial
The Montessori sensorial curriculum is
designed to stimulate, develop, and refine all
of the growing child's senses.

18. The CDS Montessori Classroom
Sensorial
Educating the senses allows the child to
perceive the richness of life while contributing
to the development of cognitive skills such as
thinking, judging, classifying, associating, and
comparing.

19. But what about
continuing education
outside of a Montessori
environment?

20. Montessori schools such as Chesterfield
Day School often establish a curriculum
that builds a bridge from a highly
personalized Montessori classroom to
secondary school preparation.

21. READY. SET. LAUNCH.
A Chesterfield Premier Montessori School
for Children 18 Months Through 6th Grade
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