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A Montessori Environment

WHEN YOU VISIT US, you might see children using the Practical Life materials, learning to button, buckle, lace, tie, or turn bolts, nuts and screws.  These activities give children a sense of independence and control over their environment, while promoting small muscle control and eye-hand coordination.

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WHEN YOU VISIT US,  you might see how much fun math is.  Learning the number symbols, gradually understanding the number values, using the Montessori beads for basic addition, subtraction and for some children multiplication, is like solving a great puzzle.  It brings forth a feeling of success.  “I did it!”

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WHEN YOU VISIT US, you can see the happy recognition of phonetic sounds of letters by the younger children.  The older children, four and five year olds, are likely to ask you to listen to them read their books.  Our reading program is phonetic and a source of pride and feeling of accomplishment for the children.  “I read a whole book!”

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WHEN YOU VISIT US,  you might see children working with the sensorial materials.  These materials, designed by Maria Montessori, develop the five senses and get the young child ready for reading, writing and math.  There are exercises in perception, observation, discrimination and classification.  You will see how the children love these activities and want to

do them over and over again.

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Creative Center of Cedar Grove

CHILDREN’S HOUSE is our Montessori environment.  We are a small school, so it is indeed a children’s house, a place where children play, learn, develop, discover and acquire a real sense of success and achievement.  Individual and group activities encourage the child to work on self-selected interests at his or her own pace.  The school strives to create for the children an atmosphere of liberty within limits, encourage intellectual curiosity, independence and self motivation. We do not segregate the children according to ages, so that in our classroom, you will find children who are two or two and-a-half, and children who are five in a kindergarten program.  In this setting, the younger ones are motivated by the older ones, and the older ones become helpful and compassionate toward the younger children.