“Knowledge can best be given where there is eagerness to learn, so this is the period when the seed of everything can be sown, the child's mind being like a fertile field, ready to receive what will germinate into knowledge.”

-Dr. Maria Montessori

The Floretz Programme is designed to bring learning through observation, self-help, teaching aids, Montessori Materials, Montessori trained adults, spontaneous sharing of knowledge of older children with the younger ones, physical activities and audio-visual modules.

The Five Areas of a 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 or tweezers.

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.

The young child strives to be independent and to do things for himself. Through these 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.

2. Sensorial Area: This area helps to develop the child's senses and awareness of the world around him through the use of specialized materials designed to isolate individual qualities such as colour, size, shape, weight, texture, and more.

"The hand is the chief teacher of the child."   Dr. Maria Montessori

3. Language Area: We use a phonics-based program to teach sounds, letters, writing, and then reading.

4. Mathematics: We begin with manipulatives that slowly lead into abstract concepts
Beginning with numbers 1-10, 11-99, and 1-1000, the children learn linear counting and recognition of numerals, which then leads into addition, subtraction, multiplication and division concepts. This is done through fun activities which involve lots of movement, manipulatives and group work. As the child matures, individual work is encouraged and abstract learning begins to take place.

5. Cultural Area: This area includes fascinating and enjoyable topics such as global awareness, geography, science, botany, music and art.

"The child has his own laws of development; it is a question of following these, not of imposing ourselves upon him." Dr. Maria Montessori