The focus of the next 4-7 weeks will be to help your child to succeed in learning to read. We offer semi-privates and small group sessions. Exposing children to a mixed age group environment helps boost their learning experience and their development in a number of ways.

 

Mixed Age Groups Benefits:

• Eliminates competition, as every child is at a different stage of learning, unique to their own development.

• Encourages kids to build strong bonds with others not of their own age (much like how older and younger siblings interact).

• Teaches peer-to-peer interactions (children are more apt to learn from their peers than from adults).

• Better social and academic skills than traditionally schooled children.

Not only are mixed age groups a benefit for younger kids, but it’s an equal benefit to older children, as well.

 

Benefits of Mixed Age Groups to Older Children

• Teaches older kids the reward of being a good role-model for younger children.

• Gives the kids the ability to become mentors to the younger ones (assist them on how to properly carry a tray, where the bathroom is etx.)

• Gives the older children a stronger sense of self-worth as they’re helping others.

• Teaches kids to be sensitive to others around them, to recognize when others need help, and helps them to become more independent in their actions.

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Q: Why should I sign my child up for reading classes?

Reading and writing are sometimes taken for granted by adults who have mastered the skills—but looking at them from a child’s perspective, they are skills of Herculean difficulty. Literacy is a complicated, integrative process that involves the association of symbols with sounds, sounds with words, and words with ideas. It means learning to fluidly encode ideas into symbols and decode symbols into ideas. And, on top of everything, it involves acquiring complex physical production skills, such as the fine motor skills involved in writing with a pen or pencil.

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The Montessori approach uses a distinct set of practices that nurture a positive, natural learning experience to teach reading and writing. The Montessori curriculum is thoughtfully built around teaching children the many elements of reading and writing one by one, in a way accessible to and enjoyable by a child.