Exclusive Montessori

Ages: 6 months to 6 years

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 9:30am-12:30pm.

The Exclusive Montessori program at SpecialMe supports a child’s budding independence and self-discovery. Children are given the opportunity and time to choose their own activities and are allowed to practice, review and explore them at their own pace under the guidance of a trained adult. This approach helps develop concentration, motivation, persistence and discipline.

At SpecialMe a child’s unique personality is encouraged and each child is respected as an important member. The teacher will give a short presentation to the child and then the child is given the opportunity to continue practicing until they are satisfied. The teacher acts as guide and observer, whose goal is to intervene less and less as the child develops. The teacher builds an atmosphere of calm, order and joy in the classroom and encourages the children in all their efforts, thus promoting self-confidence and discipline.

The Exclusive Montessori program at SpecialMe supports a child’s budding independence and self-discovery. Children are given the opportunity and time to choose their own activities and are allowed to practice, review and explore them at their own pace under the guidance of a trained adult. This approach helps develop concentration, motivation, persistence and discipline. Our Infant and Toddler Montessori Program includes activities like Sensory Bins and Bottles, Discovery Boxes, Nature Basket, Ball Treasure Basket, Sand and Water Play, Textured Balls, Musical Instruments, Finger Painting etc.

At SpecialMe the Montessori classes place children in the following age groups (6 months – 1.5, 1.5 to 2.5, 2.5 to 3.5, 3.5 to 4.5 and 4.5 to 5.5 years) forming communities in which the older children spontaneously share their knowledge with the younger ones.

SpecialMe Montessori Programs

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Infant Program

6 months to 1.5 years

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Toddler Program

18 months to 2.5 years

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Preschool Program

2.5 years to 3.5 years

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Kindergarten Program

3.5 years to 5.5 years

Infant Program

Montessori Infant program at SpecialMe for age group 6 months to 1.5 years offers so much more than childcare. Each child in our care is treated as an individual to be nurtured with affection and respect. As is customary for Montessori environments, every detail is selected with the child’s whole development in mind. Our prepared infant environments are organized, clean and uncluttered with developmentally appropriate material and activities that support the child through each stage of infant growth. We use a variety of materials that are placed throughout the room that have different textures and natural colors.

Infants are encouraged to crawl as there are no highchairs or swings to hold the infant instead all the materials are placed on low shelves on the floor. We use mats, soft rugs, low chairs and tables. We also use treasure baskets filled with safe and real objects from around the house to explore. Care is taken to not overstimulate the infant. Materials are continually rotated as the infant’s interests are observed.

Sleeping, feeding schedules and diaper changes are based on the individual needs of the infant and are recorded. We communicate with parents daily using the SpecialMe app to be sure we are meeting the needs of the constantly changing infant. After the age of 18 months, the child may begin his transition to the toddler program. Move-up ages may vary by several months.

Toddler Program

At SpecialMe we have designed a learning program that will foster toddler’s independence, enhance creativity and imagination and promote good hygiene and good manners. Our Montessori coordinators work with the toddlers and help them grow and become active explorers by allowing them to select the material that interests them and use it as long as they would like. They also encourage sharing, taking turns and show them how to put the material away before working with another. This gives the toddlers an opportunity to learn social skills and manners by saying please, thank you etc.

Toddler’s work with materials that lengthen their attention span and help develop their concentration and coordination. They also learn simple ground rules and lessons in grace and courtesy, how to get along, how to control their movements, how to care for their environment and how to care for themselves. Music, storytelling, arts and crafts, practical life skills including matching, sorting and pouring, large muscle coordination, naps and individual and group games are all important parts of the daily life for your toddler at SpecialMe Montessori Toddler Program.

Preschool Program

The SpecialMe Montessori Primary program offers a unique, mixed-age classroom environment, for children approximately 2.5 to 3.5 years old. Here, children engage in individual learning experiences, as well as one-on-one interactions, which are integral to the Montessori Method.

Children use Montessori materials to explore practical life, language, sensory perception, reading and writing and learn math.

Kindergarten Program

In SpecialMe Kindergarten program children are given the structured freedom to work at their own pace and pursue their love of learning. This ensures that the child understands what they are learning rather than just memorizing information. They will gain experience in reasoning, problem-solving, and critical thinking giving them a lifelong love of learning.

Our Montessori coordinators thoughtfully prepare the classroom environment with materials and activities that meet the students’ unique interests, academic level, and developmental needs. The activities are introduced to each child sequentially, laying the foundation for independent learning. Children at this age learn by doing and they pursue their tasks independently either in a group or alone.

Our kindergarten curriculum has four basic components, which include Practical Life, Sensory, Language, and Math. In addition to this, we also introduce our children to geography, history, botany, zoology, arts, music and movement.

At SpecialMe we use fascinating hands-on exercises to teach geography, botany, zoology, earth and physical science. At the end of the program each child in our care will emerge with a set of skills – social, emotional, and academic and more importantly, know how to function within a group.

It’s amazing to see what babies do when they’re given freedom of movement and activities that meet their needs. Some of the learning activities for infants includes:

  • Cognitive Skill Development Activities:  focusing, remembering, matching, identifying, tracking etc.

  • Motor Skill Development Activities: rolling, crawling, climbing, balancing and pulling themselves up, grasping, placing, stacking, pouring, hand-eye coordination etc.

  • Sensory Play Activities:  develop sensory abilities including visual tracking, experiencing sounds and volume, recognizing patterns, feeling textures, identifying objects, experiencing temperature etc.

  • Communication Skills Development Activities: develop communication skills by reacting to, recognizing and responding to verbal language. Making simple vocal sounds and movements to express themselves, vocalizing, babbling and forming consonant and vowel combinations.

  • Play with Natural Elements: discovery bottles, nature basket etc.

  • Hole in a box: pulling laces, scarves etc.

  • Art and Crafts

  • Sand and Water Play

  • Creative and Imaginative Play

  • Music and Storytelling

The learning activities for toddlers includes both individual and group activities:

  • Social Skill Development: Toddlers learn simple ground rules and lessons in grace and courtesy, how to get along, how to control their movements, how to care for their environment and how to care for themselves.

  • Language:  We have prepared a Montessori environment that helps expand the vocabulary of the child and provides order, exactness and self-confidence. The child uses sandpaper letters to form phonetic sounds, then uses the movable alphabet to compose words.

  • Cognitive Skills Development:  Activities include matching, assembling, tracing, observing etc.

  • Motor Skills Development: Activities include transferring, clipping, stringing, wrapping etc.

  • Sensory Development: Activities to develop sensory abilities include identifying colors, matching, recognizing sounds, determining smells etc.

  • Exercises of Practical life:  Includes helping children eat unassisted, clean up after themselves, washing and dressing according to each child’s individual capacity. Exercises such as pouring, sweeping, dusting, buttoning, zipping etc. are introduced early to give children an opportunity to care for themselves and their environment.

The learning activities for preschool children includes both individual and group activities:

Language:  We have prepared a Montessori environment that helps expand the vocabulary of the child and provides order, exactness and self-confidence. The child uses sandpaper letters to form phonetic sounds, then uses the movable alphabet to compose words. Each student then progresses to writing, then spelling.

Mathematics: We have prepared a Montessori environment that introduces mathematics through exactness and order. The child begins with 1-10 work, learning the quantity and symbol – each in isolation and then learn how to associate the two together.

  • Sensory Skill Development: Activities to develop sensory abilities, including matching objects, exploring textures, observing nature, discriminating between shapes etc. We provide toddlers with sensorial materials and guide them using exercises that help to develop visual discrimination skills using an incremental difference in the size of the materials.

Exercises of Practical life:  Activities to develop practical life skills include fastening clothes, washing objects, preparing food, sewing, polishing etc.

  • Cognitive Skill Development: Activities to develop cognitive skills, including sorting, carrying, manipulating, associating etc.

  • Motor Skill Development: Activities to develop motor skills, including cutting, throwing, balancing, spooning etc.

  • Social Skill Development: Activities to develop social skills, including please and thank you, planning a trip, group art, recognizing emotions etc.

Language: The goal is to guide the students to fluent reading through a reading program that is based on phonetics and includes a wide range of activities that are dynamic, fun and interactive.  We start with oral language development and progress to associating sounds and symbols. We also introduce the grammar. Activities include Sandpaper Letters, Movable Alphabets etc.

Mathematics: In math, children first explore numbers 1–10, learning about quantities and symbols, and how to associate the two. Through hands-on, incremental learning, the children systematically build on this foundation to learn about the decimal system, numbers to 100, and solving four-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division equations. Activities include Number Rods and Number Cards, Sandpaper Numbers, Skip Counting with Short and Long Chains etc.

Zoology – explores living and non-living things, differences between plants and animals, caring for animals and the five classes of animals

Botany – explores the role and purpose of plants in the world. This child centered curriculum introduces the plant and its parts using live plants

Science – exciting, hands-on experiments provide active participation with trial and error, exploring natural laws such as magnetism, buoyancy, evaporation, chemical reactions, and light and color.

  • Sensorial Activities:  Include Nomenclature Cards, Visual activities, Tactile activities, Auditory activities and Olfactory activities

History:  In history we explore the passage of time and personal history by examining birthdays, personal timelines, family trees, and the changing seasons.

Geography – Explores physical and cultural geography with Montessori Globes, Land and Water Forms, Puzzles Maps, and Flags of the World.

Arts – At SpecialMe we encourage self-expression. Beginning with primary colors, the child explores secondary and tertiary colors and hues.

Our Programs

Edifying Infants

6 months to 12 months

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Edifying Toddlers

1 to 2 years

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Early Explorers

2 to 3 years

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Sagacious Senior

3 to 4 years

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