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The founder of this method is an Italian pedagogue, doctor and scientist Maria Montessori (1870 – 1952 years). She created and original system of nurture and education of the children that become popular and spread out through the whole world and up until today is considered as one of the best educational system for preschool age children.

Montessori Method is different from other educational systems.
It is built on rational balance between the freedom and well-defined structure that created exclusively for small children. This method places the children into exciting environment where all activities, thoroughly developed educational materials that idyllically suit to the natural needs of the children. By means of Montessori Method a qualified teacher provide ideal control over work with children.
Montessori system provides your child with serious foundation to create personality, personality that is well developed, responsible, happy and educated.

Montessori Method allows your child to learn much more easily when the knowledge acquired through the activity.

Your child can choose the work that attractive to him and suit well his interests. He can exercise his feelings freely and spontaneous, where he feels happy and passionate about what he does, because he does something he wants, not something that was told him to do. By improving his skills the child gradually acquire ability to be independent and build his own confidence. Montessori Method creates in your child the natural love to the education and gradually establishes stable motivation towards future education. This helps the child to develops naturally and do not force him into something that he is not ready for.

What is the Montessori Method?

The Montessori method sees children as they really are and creates an environment which fosters the fulfillment of their highest potential - spiritual, emotional, physical, and intellectual - as members of a family, a school, and the world community.

The Montessori environment contains specially designed, manipulative materials that invite children to engage in learning activities of their own individual choice. Under the guidance of a trained Montessori teacher, children in a Montessori classroom learn by making discoveries with the materials, cultivating concentration, motivation, self-discipline, and a love of learning.   Classroom? In the Montessori’s classroom, learning materials are arranged invitingly on low, open shelves. Children may choose whatever materials they would like to use and may work for as long as the material holds their interest. When they are finished with each material, they return it to the shelf from which it came.

Montessori classroom materials? The Montessori materials themselves invite activity. There are bright arrays of solid geometric forms, knobbed puzzle maps, colored beads, and various specialized rods and blocks. Each material in a Montessori classroom isolates one quality. In this way, the concept that the child is to discover is isolated. For example, the material known as the pink tower is made up of ten pink cubes of varying sizes. The preschool-aged child constructs a tower with the largest cube on the bottom and the smallest on top. This material isolates the concept of size. The cubes are all the same color and texture; the only difference is their size. Other materials isolate different concepts: color tablets for color, geometry materials for form, and so on.

Moreover, the materials are self-correcting. When a piece does not fit or is left over, the child easily perceives the error. There is no need for adult "correction." The child is able to solve problems independently, building self-confidence, analytical thinking, and the satisfaction that comes from accomplishment.

As the child's exploration continues, the materials interrelate and build upon each other. For example, various relationships can be explored between the pink tower and the broad stair, which are based on matching precise dimensions. Later, in the elementary years, new aspects of some of the materials unfold. When studying volume, for instance, the child may return to the pink tower and discover that its cubes progress incrementally from one cubic centimeter to one cubic decimeter.

Montessori Preschool Curriculum? The Montessori preschool classroom for ages 2 through 6 years old is a "living room" for children. Children choose their work from among the self-correcting materials displayed on open shelves, and they work in specific work areas. Over a period of time, the children develop into a "normalized community," working with high concentration and few interruptions. Normalization is the process whereby a child moves from being undisciplined to self-disciplined, from disordered to ordered, from distracted to focused, through work in the environment. The process occurs though repeated work with materials that captivate the child's attention. For some children this inner change may take place quite suddenly, leading to deep concentration.

In the Montessori preschool, academic competency is a means to an end, and the manipulatives are viewed as "materials for development."

In the Montessori preschool environment, five distinct areas constitute the prepared environment:

Practical Life enhances the development of task organization and cognitive order through care of self, care of the environment, exercises of grace and courtesy, and coordination of physical movement.

Sensorial area enables the child to order, classify, and describe sensory impressions in relation to length, width, temperature, mass, color, pitch, etc.

Mathematics makes use of manipulative materials to enable the child to internalize concepts of number, symbol, sequence, operations, and memorization of basic facts.

Language Arts includes oral language development, written expression, reading, the study of grammar, creative dramatics, and children's literature. Basic skills in writing and reading are developed through the use of sandpaper letters, alphabet cut-outs, and various presentations allowing children to link sounds and letter symbols effortlessly and to express their thoughts through writing.

Cultural Activities expose the child to basics in geography, history, and life sciences. Music, art, and movement education are part of the integrated cultural curriculum.