Children's Choice Montessori School
304 Wilson Road
Humble, Texas 77338
281-446-1627
Hours: Monday - Friday
6:00 am - 6:30 pm
We would like to welcome you to our web site. We are delighted that you have chosen our school as the place where your child will begin their education.
Our Philosophy:
The Children's Choice Montessori School believes in, and is truly dedicated to, the Montessori philosophy and method. Our ultimate goal for every child is to guide him so that he develops to his fullest potential. We strive to produce an environment, which is conductive to natural learning and creativity in the child. We stress positive reinforcement, order, beauty, and cleanliness in the classroom, consideration of others, freedom of choice, independence, and the child's right to dignity.
Ultimately, we hope to develop the whole personality of the child, not just his intellectual
facilities, but also his powers of deliberation, initiative, and independent choice.
Throughout the school year we offer:
Pre K and Kindergarten early learning for toddlers and children ages 18 months through 6 years old.
Recognition of shapes, objects, colors, letters and numbers.
Spanish--Computer--Crafts--Music
Reading--Natural Science--Math
Language Skills--Social, Emotional
and Physical Development.
Throughout the school year we also offer:
After school daycare for children up to age 12.
We bus children from 2 schools:
Lakeland, and Whispering Pines Elementary.
In the Summer we offer Programs which include:
Field Trips:
Swimming (ages 6+)
Splash Pools (for younger children)
Skating
Playground
Cooking Classes
Plenty Of Arts and Crafts!!
We have video monitored classrooms and playgrounds for your peace of mind!!!
Montessori Explained:
The Montessori method was developed by Maria Montessori, a woman physician in Italy.
She believed that no human being is educated by another person. A child must do it for his for her self or it will never be done. A truly educated person continues learning long after the hours and days spent in a classroom. The ultimate goal of Early Childhood Education should be
"to cultivate their own natural desire to learn."
A child who acquires the basic skills of reading and arithmetic in this natural way has the advantage of beginning his education without drudgery, boredom or discouragement.
The use of materials is based on the young child's aptitude for learning, which Dr. Montessori identified as the
"absorbent mind." In her writings, she frequently compares the young mind to a
sponge. It literally absorbs information from the environment. Since a child retains the ability to learn by absorbing until he is almost 7 years old, Dr. Montessori reasoned that the child's experience could handle materials that in which would demonstrate basic educational information to him.
Over sixty years of experience have proven her theory correct: That a child can learn to read, write, and calculate in the same natural way that he learns to walk and talk. In a Montessori classroom the equipment invites him to do this at his own periods of interest and readiness.
The Montessori method and Montessori school are a unique cycle of learning designed to take advantage of the child's sensitive years, between the ages of 3 and 6, when he can absorb information from an enriched environment. A child who acquires the basic skills of reading and arithmetic in this natural way has the advantage of beginning his education without drudgery, boredom, or discouragement. By pursuing his individual interests in a Montessori classroom, he gains an early enthusiasm of learning, which is the key to his becoming a
"truly educated person."
What is the difference between Montessori and traditional education?
Montessori emphasizes learning through all five senses, not just through listening, watching, or reading. Children in Montessori classes learn at their own, individual pace and according to their own choice of activities from hundreds of possibilities. Learning is an exciting process of discovery, leading to concentration, motivation, self-discipline, and a love of learning. Montessori classes place children in three-year age groups
(3-6, 6-9, and so on), forming communities in which the older children spontaneously share their knowledge with the younger ones. Montessori represents an entirely different approach to education.
Work centers: The environment is arranged according to subject area, and children are always free to move around the room instead of staying at desks. There is no limit to how long a child can work with a piece of material. At any one time in a day all subjects -- math, language, science, history, geography, art, music, etc., will be being studied, at all levels.
Teaching method: "Teach by teaching, not by correcting" There are no papers turned back with red marks and corrections. Instead the child's effort and work is respected as it is. The teacher, through extensive observation and record-keeping, plans individual projects to enable each child to learn what he needs in order to improve.
Areas of study: All subjects are interwoven, not taught in isolation, the teacher modeling a "Renaissance" person of broad interests for the children. A child can work on any material he understands at any time.
Learning styles: All kinds of intelligence's and styles of learning are nurtured: musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial,
interpersonal, interpersonal,
intuitive, and the traditional linguistic and logical-mathematical (reading, writing, and math).
This particular model is backed up by Harvard
psychologist Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence's.
Assessment: There are no grades. Assessment is by portfolio and the teacher's observation and record keeping.
The test of whether or not the
system is working lies in the accomplishment and behavior of the children, their happiness, maturity, kindness, and love of learning and level of work.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Founders of Google.com, and Jeffrey Bezos, founder of Amazon.com credit their Montessori education for much of their success.
See this interesting list: http://www.michaelolaf.net/google.html
Feel free to drop in anytime and take a tour of our facility!
Director: Donna Reynolds