Nature's Way Montessori School

Enrollment

Enrollment Procedures

Subsequent to receipt of an application your child will be placed on our waiting list. When an opening becomes available, you will be notified and a $200 non-refundable registration fee will be due. When the applicable tuition has been paid, the child can be admitted on a six week trial basis. A parent/teacher conference will be held at the end of the six week trial period to review the child's progress and determine his/her needs. The school shall retain the final determination as to whether a child may benefit from and continue at the school.

Sensorial and Practical Life

Through work with sensorial materials, children learn to match and grade colors, sounds, textures, wights and forms to sharpen their awareness of detail, comparison and contrast. Using practical life material, children learn basic care of themselves and their environment, and to be contributing members of a group. These materials are designed to develop independence, order, coordination and concentration.

Mathematics

Specific Montessori materials are used to develop early concrete number concepts and basic math operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, factoring and fractions.

Beginning Reading and Grammar

Specific Montessori materials are used to develop reading and comprehension. These including forming letters, learning basic phonetic sounds, building words, decoding phanograms and identifying grammatical parts of speech.

Cultural Subjects

These subjects include the universe, solar system, geography, history, botany and zoology. Children learn how the earth is a planet represented by the globe of maps, while learning about the world's people and places and the wonders of nature.