AP MONTESSORI SCHOOLS-WHITBY Montessori system

Children's House Sensorial Work (3 year cycle)

"The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises...The sense exercises constitute a species of auto-education, which, if these exercises be many times repeated, leads to a perfecting of the child's psycho sensory processes." --Maria Montessori

508 Byron St. South

Whitby, ON L1N 4R3

(905)430-APMS(2767)

(905)447-4767

Elementary Language Arts Studies (6 year cycle)
"Our care of the children should be governed not by the desire to 'make them learn things', but by endeavoring always to keep burning within them the light which is called intelligence." -- Maria Montessori

Elementary Humanities Studies

(6 year cycle)

"If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest; it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more thoroughly satisfying." ---Maria Montessori

Elementary Mathematics Studies

(6 year cycle)

"Our aim is not only to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core." -- Maria Montessori

Elementary Geometry Studies

(6 year cycle)

"The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality. But his activity is really the work he performs in building up the man he is to become. It is the incarnation of the human spirit." -- Maria Montessori

Overview of Elementary Studies

Adaptations of the Original Method: In addition to Montessori based teaching philosophy we introduced so many different activities as per the needs of the child.

We are the only school to teach in traditional as well as montessori methods.

Children's House Practical Life Work

(Everyday living, 3 year cycle, Ages 3-6)

"Considering the method as a whole, we must begin our work by preparing the child for forms of social life and we must attract his attention to these forms...At a given moment it happens that a child becomes keenly interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression in his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline...The exercises of Practical Life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education." --Maria Montessori

Children's House Language Studies (3 year cycle)

"Language is one of the characteristics which distinguish man from the animals. It is a gift of nature bestowed on him alone. It is an expression of his intelligence...Written language can be acquired much more easily by children of four years than by those of six years of age--the time at which compulsory education starts. While children of six years of age need at least two years to learn how to write, and do so with much difficulty and against nature, children of four years learn this 'second language' within a few months." --Maria Montessori