Our Programs

Montessori Curriculum

Windsor Montessori offer a challenging Montessori curriculum for 2 1/2 through 6 years in our toddler, preschool and full time kindergarten classrooms
.We’re open year round including the summer months.'
Windsor Montessori offers authentic Montessori programs. The environment is carefully prepared with activities and child-size furniture. This allows the child to have an unforgettable experience that becomes a solid foundation for his life long journey.
We feel music, art,story telling/drama,world language( spanish )and physical activity like zoomba and yoga are all important aspects of a well rounded program and they are all included in our standard tuition rates.
Windsor Montessori's enrich experience can give your child an advantage for a lifetime. We're confident that you will see the difference when compared to traditional day care. Children develop self esteem, self confidence and leadership skills that they need to succeed in life. Windsor Montessori gives you peace of mind knowing your most precious asset is well cared for.

The Five Areas of a Preschool Montessori Classroom

1. Practical Life:

Everyday Life Skills, Social Graces, and Movement are all part of the Practical Life Area through fun and interesting activities such as pouring, spooning, transferring objects using tongs, tweezers or a baster. Scrubbing tables, chairs and floors, as well as ironing, washing clothes and polishing, all promote care of the child’s environment by doing the things he sees adults do every day.This area also promotes concentration and attention to a task. The child learns to do for him/her self.

The young child strives to be independent and to do things for herself. Through the Practical Life activities the skills needed to be independent are learned and habituated. Learning social graces, what to say and when, help the child to learn to be a part of everyday society. These are continued during our Lunch Program as well.

Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity, which is derived from a sense of independence.” Dr.Maria Montessori

2. Sensorial:

This area helps to develop the child’s senses and awareness of the world around him/her through the use of specialized materials designed to isolate individual qualities such as colour, size, shape, weight, texture, and more.This is a very “hands on” area, each activity involving the whole child.

“The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence .” Dr.Maria Montessor

3. Language:

The Montessori Language Program is a phonetic based approach to reading. Language is such a huge part of our world, from speaking, to isolating sounds and then into reading. The Montessori child essentially “teaches” himself/herself to read through learning the letter sounds, writing words using those sounds, and finally reading those words back. It is an exciting time when a child “bursts” into reading!

4.Mathematics:

The Montessori math curriculum is one of the best examples of the unique beauty of Montessori materials. First, the Montessori practical life and sensorial activities give indirect preparations for math. Then, the math materials continue to prepare the child for later learning, use concrete materials to introduce abstract concepts, and give a sequential understanding of mathematical concepts.
Organized in six groups: Numbers to Ten, the Decimal System, Teens and Tens, Memory Work (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), Passage to Abstraction, and Fractions.
Beautiful concrete materials introduce the initial concept and then allow for continued experience and repetition with variety, so concepts can be mastered, expanded, applied, and revised.

5.Geography/Science:

Through sensory experience and the use of imaginative stories, children in the Montessori 3-6 environment learn about their physical world. They can touch a sphere and compare the shape to the globe. They build landforms using play dough and fill water forms with water. Montessori puzzle maps are meant to be taken apart and put back together again as children develop an understanding of continents and oceans. These Montessori hands-on activities build long term memory by physically engaging the hand.
Discoveries are made about the people who live on different continents. Montessori students learn about food, music, clothing, traditions, holidays, customs, housing, as well as the plants and animals of the region as they compare their lifestyles to others. They learn about the flags of the world and reverently carry them as they “walk the line” in the Montessori prepared environment. They learn to appreciate the wonder found in the similarities and differences found around the world.

One goal of Montessori science is to cultivate a lifelong interest in observing nature and discovering more about the world in which we live. Some science activities you may see in our Montessori classroom are activities of magnetism, growing plants, classification of plants and animals. Habitats of the world their inhabitants and the solar system.