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Infant Program
8 weeks to 18 months
We make sure to provide the security and loving care that infants need to thrive in happiness.
Why Parents Choose Montessori
Montessori Programs at Hamilton
From the earliest months through the Primary years and beyond, your child will find the right classroom to grow.
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Toddler Program
18 months through 36 months
Our tiny tots love this class — it is geared to the size, pace and curiosities of their world.
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Primary Program
Three years to Six years
Preparing each child to excel, assisting each to develop to their fullest potential.
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Enrichment Programs
Continuing program — no fixed age
Children are presented with the tools needed to stimulate their inner need to learn how to learn.
The Prepared Environment
Order, beauty, accessibility, and real materials — every detail is designed around the child.
Order
Orderly classrooms, well-kept materials, and consistent daily routines make the world predictable — so children can choose work with focus and confidence.
Beauty & Harmony
A calm, clean, inviting space signals respect for the child and makes learning feel peaceful, pleasant, and worth caring for.
Accessibility
Child-sized shelves, tables, and work spaces put everything within reach, encouraging independence and self-directed learning.
Reality-Based Materials
Montessori classrooms use real, purposeful objects and activities — not abstract toys — so children experience meaningful work they can properly master.
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Hands-On, Experiential Learning
The emphasis is on concrete, rather than abstract learning, as students work on activities that teach language, math, culture and practical life lessons. Giving the child real concrete work immerses the child into meaningful purposeful activity.
Sensitive Periods and Individual Pace
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Observe
Montessori is based on years of patient observation and study of children. Teachers watch each child’s milestones and use those observations to prepare the classroom around what the child is ready to explore.
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Honor Individual Liberty
The method offers the child a maximum of spontaneity. With the freedom to choose purposeful work, children absorb knowledge more readily — and often reach an even higher level of scholastic attainment than under other systems.
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Match Materials to Readiness
Based on the child’s imperious need to learn by doing, sensitive periods are the stages when knowledge is absorbed more readily. A prepared environment places the right materials before the child at exactly the right moment.
Multi-Age Community and Inner Discipline
Mixed-age classrooms build mentorship, cooperation, and self-regulation that lasts.
Older Children Mentor Younger Children
In a mixed-age classroom, younger children are inspired by what they see older children doing, and older children deepen their own learning by guiding others.
A Noncompetitive, Cooperative Community
Without the need for coercion by rewards or punishments, children work for the joy of the work and create a higher discipline that originates within.
Concentration, Order, and Self-Discipline
Beginning at an early age, Montessori students develop order, coordination, concentration, and independence — the foundations of inner discipline.
See Montessori in Action
Come See The Montessori Difference!
Call (609) 585-1314