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- Mon - Fri: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
- 914-417-4303
- 20 Greenridge Ave, White Plains, NY 10605
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Athena Montessori Children’s Program embraces a holistic approach to education, encompassing various essential areas of development. Practical Life activities engage children in purposeful tasks, such as pouring, sorting, and taking care of the environment, fostering independence and fine motor skills. Sensorial materials ignite curiosity, allowing children to explore their senses and develop keen observation.
In our Montessori classroom, the Practical Life area is thoughtfully designed to foster the development of practical skills, independence, and the values of grace and courtesy. Through purposeful activities like pouring, spooning, buttoning, and polishing, children refine their fine motor skills and concentration while learning critical social graces and demonstrating courtesy towards others. This area instills deep respect, kindness, and consideration for their environment and peers, creating a harmonious and cooperative classroom community. By emphasizing grace and courtesy in the Practical Life area, we prepare children for success in their social interactions and lay the foundation for positive relationships and good manners.
The Sensorial area of our Montessori classroom offers carefully designed lessons that aid in developing order, perception, and the refinement of the five senses. Through various materials, the child explores concepts such as shape, size, texture, loudness or softness, weight, temperature, and more. These materials engage the child’s visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and stereognostic senses, allowing them to discover and understand the world multi-sensory. The Sensorial area provides invaluable opportunities for the child to refine their senses and develop a keen sense of observation and discrimination.
In the Language area of our Montessori classroom, we focus on developing the child’s oral, written, and reading skills. Through various activities, children engage in conversations, vocabulary classification, matching exercises, and left-to-right orientation exercises. They explore tactile experiences with sandpaper letters, develop writing skills using metal insets, and build words, phrases, and sentences with the movable alphabet. These activities foster language development, enhance reading abilities, and promote handwriting skills, providing a solid foundation for communication and literacy.
In the Montessori learning environment, mathematical concepts are introduced concretely and gradually progress toward the abstract. We follow a sequential approach, starting from simple concepts and advancing to more complex ones.
To develop an understanding of value and quantity, we utilize materials such as number rods and number cards. Linear counting is introduced through the use of teen and ten boards. The one hundred board and bead chains help children grasp number concepts and recognize numbers from one to one hundred.
As children progress, they are introduced to units, tens, hundreds, and thousands, deepening their comprehension of place value. The golden bead material explores mathematical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. These materials provide a hands-on and interactive way for children to engage in mathematical operations and develop a solid foundation in mathematics.
Providing a concrete and tactile learning experience empowers children to understand and apply mathematical concepts confidently and efficiently.
Our Montessori curriculum introduces cultural studies through various subjects, including geography, science, botany, zoology, history, art, and music. We believe in providing a comprehensive understanding of the world around us.
Children discuss air, land, water, maps, continents, people, food, and cultural celebrations worldwide through monthly themes and geography studies. These discussions enable children to develop a global perspective and appreciation for diverse cultures.
By exploring different aspects of cultural studies, children gain knowledge about the world’s natural wonders, the diversity of plants and animals, the significance of historical events, and the beauty of artistic expression. This integrated approach fosters curiosity, respect for different cultures, and a sense of interconnectedness among all human beings.
Through these cultural studies, we aim to nurture children’s understanding, appreciation, and respect for the rich tapestry of our global community.
