Academics: Academics Program - Pre-Primary (Montessori)

Academics Program - Pre-Primary (Montessori)

Montessori recognised that a child actually goes through two sensitive periods for language development: one is the periods from birth to about five years old, the other is from the age of about seven to nine years.

Montessori sees the child as an active learner, a motivated doer and that children have the power to educate and teach themselves. Young children with good phonetic awareness are often ready (and wanting) to make words before their hand is ready for the pencil control required for writing.

Using the Movable Alphabet the child begins to make the connection between the spoken and the written language. This is a powerful connection and it's important the child makes these discoveries for themselves, that the learning is spontaneous. The child will form words and will later be able to read them back to themselves. I will never forget when Otis read his first word, pulling his phonetic awareness together. It is a magical moment.

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