Montessori - Seeds of Knowledge
Help me to think for myself
The montessori pedagogy of 6 - 12 years old
In our 6 – 12 year-old classes, your child benefits from a holistic program designed to support his or her need to understand and learn.
Through experimentation and exploration, your child will discover, understand and acquire all the knowledge needed to adapt, respect and preserve the world around them. He’ll learn to manage his emotions, resolve conflicts and work constructively with his peers.
We work to ensure that your child acquires all the academic and social requirements he or she will need for further study, in an atmosphere of listening, sharing and trust.
Think ...
Let’s work together !
Nature..
Let’s plant!
Sport..
Let’s move !
The work environment
5 Characteristics
Our program responds to this natural curiosity of the child by providing opportunities for spontaneous reasoning.
Within our program, we have taken into consideration each of these characteristics in order to ensure personalized learning and follow-up allowing each student to take advantage of all of their potential.
Within our program, we have taken into consideration each of these characteristics in order to ensure personalized learning and follow-up allowing each student to take advantage of all of their potential.
Moral
The child needs to understand the reasons why there are taboos and his sense of justice and injustice is growing.
This is an age where loyalty, ideals and heroes are very important.
It is also during this period that the child begins to develop his spirit of responsibility which will continue to develop throughout life.
Social
The group plays an important role. The group represents the place in which we try to understand how society works. This leads the child to establish group marks, signs of recognition and often a leader appears. This is the reason why children no longer work alone but in groups; we have to take that into consideration.
Emotional
Maria Montessori points out that emotion plays an important role in learning. Children also learn through emotions and it is important to take these emotions into consideration in our approach to teaching. If the adult is attentive to the emotions of the student, we can observe a "peace of mind" which is essential to allow the student to learn in a serene atmosphere and above all, to release all his potentialities.
Suggestions for ages 6 - 12
Schedules
"The art of painting belongs to the artists.
The Painting Game belongs to all the others."
Once a week, the children go into the Closlieu in small groups to paint.
Children paint standing up on large sheets of paper hung on the wall with thumbtacks.
They have a palette table with 18 colors and high-quality brushes.
The gouache used dries quickly and is free from harmful substances.
The paintings remain archived at the school, because we don’t come here to produce works of art for others to see.
The aim of the game is to enjoy the moment, not the result.