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All-Day Program |
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Children aged 3 through 6
years |
| All-day Montessori provides a house for children who stay
for a full day (7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.). In the all-day program,
the children live in a community which has both a Montessori prepared
environment which includes room for all-day activities such as cooking, meal
preparation and serving, play and exercise, napping, art activities, and
creative dramatics. Because the children spend more time in the
Montessori environment, the all-day Montessori program follows a slower
pace with greater exploration of Montessori activities than does the
half-day morning program.
The all-day Montessori program is different from day care, because it is not restricted to a before- and after- school general purpose room. Rather, it is a community of peers who remain part of that community five days weekly in the Montessori classroom and auxiliary room. Continuity of adults is maintained so that the children receive constant understanding and care from those who really know them and bond with their needs. |
The accouterments are homelike including comfortable chairs in a
living room setting, a child-accessible kitchen, visits to the
neighborhood bakeries and restaurants, gardening, walks to the park,
field trips to the museum for music, arts, and crafts. The all-day
program brings the natural pace of the home into the Montessori setting.
