Montessori
Montessori Program
WHAT IS MONTESSORI?
Montessori is an approach to education with the fundamental belief that a child learns best within a social environment that supports each individual’s unique development.
Classes are based on three-year age groupings. Thus younger students observe and internalize skills learned from older students. Older students exercise leadership skills while continuing to progress.
Montessori education is based on the following:
- Whole Child Approach
Activities provide intellectual stimulation and promote the development of social skills, emotional growth and physical coordination.
- Prepared Environment
Classrooms provide freedom within limits and a positive climate for learning.
- Montessori Materials
Multi-sensory, sequential and self-correcting materials facilitate the learning of abstract ideas.
- Certified Teachers
Our Early Childhood and Elementary I teachers receive their certification from the Midwest Montessori Teacher Training Center.
If you would like more information about the Montessori philosophy, please visit the Montessori Foundation website at www.montessori.org.
MONTESSORI AT OSCAR MAYER
Our Montessori program is offered beginning in pre-school. To qualify for entrance, your child must be toilet trained and 3 years old by September 1st of their entrance year. The children are in school 5 days a week from 9:00am to 2:45pm.
During school hours the children are offered Fine Arts programming in Music, Art, Drama, Spanish, Library and Physical Education. After school enrichment programs are available for a fee.
Applications are available at www.cpsmagnet.org.
For additional information about the Oscar Mayer’s Montessori Program, please contact our Montessori Coordinator, Barbara Baldini, at (773)534-5535 x2 or at babaldini@cps.edu.