Guelph Montessori School is a licensed daycare/private school for children 18 months to Grade 6. We offer full day programs 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. Attendance includes lunch, AM and PM snacks, and a variety of extra-curricular activities such as French, Yoga, Music, Phys. Ed., outdoor play, excursions, and more. GMS has been serving Guelph and area families for over 35 years, providing authentic, rich, and stimulating Montessori curriculum in a beautiful traditional Montessori environment.
Montessori Basics
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Dr. Maria Montessori began her revolutionary work with impoverished children in Rome, Italy. As a result of Dr. Montessori's keen observation of the children as well as her background in medicine and psychology, she quickly recognized that the key formative years are those between birth and the age of six.
The Absorbent Mind
The child before six has a great capacity for mental absorption--what Dr. Montessori called the absorbent mind. The young child's absorbent mind will never repeat its extraordinary ability to:
- absorb language and movement
- internalize order
- learn through sensorial exploration
Never will these sensitivities be more alive than in the preschool years, and never again will learning be so easy--or so much fun.
What Dr. Montessori Accomplished
Under Maria Montessori's guidance, shy and neglected children soon began reading, writing, and doing arithmetic. As well, these children were considerably more:
- alert
- out-going
- self-confident
- self-disciplined
- sociable
- respectful of each other
- respectful of their environment.
As educational experts constantly remind us, the early childhood years have the greatest influence on a person's development. Perhaps this is why Montessori has become so enormously popular with conscientious parents--people who want their children not simply to be educated but to have a firm foundation to life.
Montessori Method
- Allowing Individual Growth
- Developing the Child's Senses
- Natural Tools for Learning
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151 Waterloo Avenue, Guelph, ON N1H 3H9
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