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Environment

The environment is carefully designed to meet the child's developmental needs, promoting independence, concentration, fine motor skills, and self-confidence. It is structured around five main educational areas:

Practical life

Practical life activities allow children to develop their autonomy, coordination and sense of order.

They are directly inspired by everyday life: pouring water, buttoning a shirt, sweeping, cutting fruit, etc.

 

These exercises strengthen:

 

  • fine motor skills,

  • concentration,

  • compliance with instructions,

  • self-confidence.

 

They also prepare the child for more complex gestures, useful for writing, mathematics and life in society.

Sensory

Montessori sensory materials are designed to refine a child's sensory perceptions: sight, touch, hearing, taste, and smell. Each material isolates a quality (size, color, shape, texture, weight, temperature, etc.) and allows for free and repeated exploration.

 

  • the development of the senses,

  • visual, tactile and auditory discrimination,

  • the structuring of logical thinking,

  • indirect preparation for mathematics and language.

Culture

The cultural domain encompasses the discovery of the world in its diversity: geography, botany, zoology, history, music, art, and science. The child explores continents, animals, plants, seasons, customs, and natural phenomena.

 

This area feeds:

  • curiosity,

  • respect for nature and cultures,

  • understanding the world,

  • open-mindedness.

Language

Language is omnipresent in the environment. It is encouraged from an early age through vocabulary, reading, writing, and speaking activities. The progressive material allows the child to move naturally from listening to reading and writing.

 

Children develop:

  • a rich and precise vocabulary,

  • phonological awareness,

  • fluent reading,

  • written and oral expression.

 

In a trilingual group like Les petites chaises, language is also a vector of linguistic immersion in French, German and English.

Mathematical

Mathematical material is concrete, sensory and progressive. It allows the child to understand abstract concepts through manipulation: quantities, numbers, operations, decimal system, geometry, etc.

 

Children learn:

  • to count and calculate,

  • to understand digital relationships,

  • to structure their logical thinking,

  • to love mathematics thanks to a fun and intuitive approach.

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