Environment
The Montessori Home School Program is located on a half an acre of land and has been
in the Luti Family since 1975. This center entrance colonial house was built in 1923
and just celebrated 100 years. Founded in 2005, The Montessori Homeschool is made up of four large accessible rooms and three outdoor learning spaces. Each area represents a different Montessori educational philosophy.The space has been carefully crafted so that our indoor and outdoor learning environments are rich in possibilities and provocations that invite the children to undertake extended exploration and problem solving.
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"The Prepared Environment"
To grasp the essence of Montessori education, just step inside a classroom.
Beautiful, inviting, and thoughtfully arranged, each room embodies an element of Maria Montessori’s revolutionary approach.
Natural lighting, soft colors, and uncluttered spaces set the stage for activity that is focused and calm. Learning materials are displayed on accessible shelves, fostering independence as students go about their work. Everything is where it is supposed to be, conveying a sense of harmony and order that both comforts and inspires. In this safe and empowering environment, students find joy in learning.
Maria Montessori named this
The Prepared Environment.
Accommodating Choice
The design and flow of the Montessori classroom create a learning environment that accommodates choice. There are spaces suited to group activity, and areas where a student can settle in alone.
Parts of the room are open and spacious, to allow them to work together creating large scale puzzles, architecture blocks, and life size paintings and recreating the solar system. Smaller spaces allow for independent focus and fine motor work.
Classroom Design
You won’t find the customary rows of school desks. Nor are you likely to find walls papered with brightly colored images of cartoons. Rather, you might see posters from a local museum, or framed photographs or paintings created by students and former students alike.
There are well-defined spaces for each part of the curriculum, such as Language Arts, Math, and Culture. Each of these areas features shelves or display tables with a variety of inviting materials from which students can choose.
Many classrooms have an area devoted to peace and reflection: a quiet corner or table with well-chosen items—a vase of daisies; a bowl—to lead a child to meditative thought. And always there are places to curl up with books, where a student can read or be read to.
Above all, each classroom is warm,
well-organized, and inviting, with couches,
rugs, and flowers to help children and
youth feel calm and at home.