The Montessori classroom is designed to incorporate practical life, sensorial (learning through the senses), mathematics, language,cultural, botany, zoology, art and Music. The Morningside Classroom, is a new facility and is designed for children ages 3-6, Preschool – Kindergarten. A Montessori classroom may not resemble other pre-schools. A child’s capacity to learn independence and become self-directed is limitless.\. The environment in a Montessori classroom is carefully prepared with this capacity in mind. A child, at age 3-6, is free to move, guided to choose and free to work with the materials in an appropriate way. The classroom is carefully prepared to give the child a rich learning experience in the most essential early years. Trained teachers in the Montessori field along with Montessori materials help to foster independence, concentration and increase curiosity, as well as, prepare students to be life long learners. Mainstream materials and methods that limit curiosity are not used. Children are encouraged to leave toys at home as well as any other distracting items.
Our Classroom
Our classroom is a new facility with a calmness beautifully designed within. You are welcome to call and make an appointment to come and visit. Please view some new pictures of our classroom here.
Right now our resident pets include Posie the tree frog, some gold fish, 9 chickens (outside in a coop) and a celebrity canine that lives upstairs. We will also have live plants in the classroom and may entertain an insect or two. Feel free to discuss pets if there is an issue with your child.
Because music and art bring so much richness to our lives, these will also be a daily and weekly part of our days together as well as some sign language. We will be weaving these subjects in and through the curriculum.
About the Teacher
Miss Jane has spent the past 30 years helping children discover their abilities and talents. She began her love of the Montessori method when she began homes schooling her own children 25 years ago in Oregon and then in Colorado. As her last three children were in a public Montessori pre-school, she began to seek for formal training in the philosophy of Maria Montessori. She spent two years trained and certified in the methods and works of a Children’s House 3-6. (pre-K) at Lighthouse Montessori in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Lori Roth, Directress, NAMSTA, MACTI. Miss Jane also felt it a privilege to work as an intern for 2005-2006 school year, with Miss Donna Looze, M.S. Trainer (MCI of London England) (pre-K) Montessori School in District 25 Pocatello, Idaho the last year of her 35 years of dedication to the Montessori classroom. Miss Jane continues advancing her training and certifications through The Montessori Foundation (AMI) She loves the life long pursuit of learning and teaching by attending Montessori Intensives, as well as early childhood education, nutrition, and early childhood music courses. Miss Jane is also a trained birth doula, cranial-sacral massage therapist, as well as a Kindermusik teacher. She has studied at BYU, University of Utah, Portland State, OHSU, and ISU. She is the mother of nine children.