A Child's Day — Countryside Montessori School

A Child’s Day

The children’s day is filled with beautiful and exciting activities.Our morning begins with a handshake from the guide, inviting each child into the classroom. The children enjoy seeing each other first thing in the morning, greeting each other as they come.The children are eager to get to work. They enjoy the Montessori materials and their work is very important to them. They experience all areas of the curriculum during the morning uninterrupted work period: math, language, reading, writing, as well as a wide array of cultural subjects from geography to botany. During the morning work period children prepare a snack to enjoy with a friend.After the work period, the children enjoy a short gathering time and then go outdoors to run, play and explore our natural playscape.Lunch follows recess, which is provided through our meal plan and is often fresh from our school gardens. Lunch is served family style.Each class schedule is tailor-fitted to each age group. Younger children have nap time after lunch, while the older children begin their afternoon activities. Cultural subjects, art, music, science, etc. fill the afternoons.It is then the end of the school day where some friends go home while others stay for our aftercare program. — The children’s day is filled with beautiful and exciting activities.
Our morning begins with a handshake from the guide, inviting each child into the classroom. The children enjoy seeing each other first thing in the morning, greeting each other as they come.
The children are eager to get to work. They enjoy the Montessori materials and their work is very important to them. They experience all areas of the curriculum during the morning uninterrupted work period: math, language, reading, writing, as well as a wide array of cultural subjects from geography to botany. During the morning work period children prepare a snack to enjoy with a friend.
After the work period, the children enjoy a short gathering time and then go outdoors to run, play and explore our natural playscape.
Lunch follows recess, which is provided through our meal plan and is often fresh from our school gardens. Lunch is served family style.
Each class schedule is tailor-fitted to each age group. Younger children have nap time after lunch, while the older children begin their afternoon activities. Cultural subjects, art, music, science, etc. fill the afternoons.
It is then the end of the school day where some friends go home while others stay for our aftercare program.

“The main thing is that the groups should contain different ages, because it has great influence on the cultural development of the child. This is obtained by the relations of the children among themselves. You cannot imagine how well a young child learns from an older child; how patient the older child is with the difficulties of the younger.”