Little Impressions - Best Play School in bangalore

Curriculum

Our curriculum is influenced by Montessori Method that directs and allows children towards imagination, curiosity and exploration.

What makes Montessori work?

MONTESSORI METHOD

The Montessori method of education, developed by Maria Montessori, is a child catered educational approach based on scientific observations of children. It attempts to develop children physically, socially, emotionally and cognitively.

MONTESSORI ENVIRONMENT

The spacious, open, tidy, pleasing in appearance, simple and real place integrates mixed ages in a small group. This promotes socialization, respect and solidarity among them naturally.

The enriched environment not only aims in freedom of movement and choice but also provides a strong foundation in their growth and learning. A child achieves maximum benefits with a longer period for their better development progress.

THE ADULT

The spacious, open, tidy, pleasing in appearance, simple and real place integrates mixed ages in a small group. This promotes socialization, respect and solidarity among them naturally.

The Montessori teacher, called ‘directress’, observe each child, his/her needs , capabilities and interests and offers him/her opportunities to work intellectually and with a concrete purpose. She introduces the use of materials and presents activities individually or to a small group once child is ready for a lesson.

MONTESSORI MATERIALS

Children work with the scientifically designed concrete materials which provides them keys to explore our world, develop basic cognitive abilities. The theme areas and theme based materials, low shelves, tables and chairs of different sizes, self- correcting materials promotes-

Long period of concentration with repetition process

Children to live in harmony

Develop confidence and inner discipline

Basic cognitive abilities

Develop motor skills

Conceptual learning

Establish a positive attitude towards them and own a sense of responsibility

The child’s independence in the learning and exploring process

Act, want and think by themselves

Learn errors as a part of the learning process

Take care of them and their surroundings

Explore the world with imagination and abstract thinking

Working Areas

Practical Life

These are the activities that aim to the care of the person, of others and of the physical environment where they live in. These activities include tasks that are familiar to the child: washing, polishing, setting the table, arranging flowers etc. They also include activities of “grace and courtesy”, which are a part of all civilised people. Through these and other activities, children achieve coordination and control of movement and exploration of his/her surroundings. Children learn to complete a task from beginning to end, they develop their will, self- discipline, the capacity of concentration and self- confidence.

Sensorial

Children at their age learn through senses more than through their intellect. The sensorial materials are tools for children to refine their senses. Each material isolates a specific quality: smell, size, weight, texture, flavour, colour etc. In this preschool age, when children are “ bombarded” with sensorial information, these materials allow them to find order and meaning to the world, raising his/her capacity of perception, favouring observation and a sense of admiration for everything that surrounds him/her.

Language

When the child enters an environment, they enrich the language that they had already acquired. They are capable of using it intelligently with precision and beauty, slowly realizing its properties. They learn to write, starting with their senses (hearing and touching) and as a natural consequence they learn to read as an extension of language activities, children learn about Geography, History, Art and Music. These areas help the child to know his/her surroundings and to realize the place the child occupies in this world. They teach him to respect and love for his/her environment, and they create a sense of solidarity with all humanity and his/ her habitat.

Mathematics

The materials help the child to learn and understand mathematical concepts when working with concrete materials that lead him/her intuitively to abstract concepts. They offer him/her Sensorial impressions of the numbers and set the foundations of algebra and Geometry.