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Core Values
Our values look to develop the highest vision of the whole child.
We promote growing independence with an excellent learning environment. We celebrate, model, and encourage virtures
and morals central to the American culture. We create opportunity to develop self-knowledge, stewardship and respect
for each other, the earth and its living creatures.
Philosophy of
Peaceful Heights
Montessori School
The Montessori PreSchool program offers independent, small group and collective
instruction. This type of learning takes place in a multi-aged environment and
allows the child the opportunity to remain with the same teacher for three years. These
years establish close relationships among children, teachers and work. It permits
a variety of learning skills, using dynamic and beautiful manipulatives which demonstrate abstract concepts.
These rich materials are used throughout the curriculum, which includes
mathematics, language, geography, art science and music.
Montessori
Education
Dr, Maria Montessori, created the Montessori Method of Education. It was through her observation and work that Dr. Montessori believed that no person
is educated by another. The young child gains his/her information through the
rich environment. This environment richly supports a curriculum that allows the
child to develop his/her own potentialities through activities based on skills essential for a life time of creative thinking
and learning. Her work was documented as a science and is being verified as science today.
This environment is called the Children's House. Dr. Montessori believed that the hand was the vehicle for learning.
There must be concentration on a specific activity by the child. This
young child has an "Absorbent Mind". He/she absorbs all information from his
environment.
It is with materials in this special environment, that the child learns
to self-correct and set about on a path of lifelong learning. The child is allowed
to develop self-discipline, be independent and respect staff, peers and the world around him/her.
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