Montessori Materials

Why Choose Arbor View Montessori Preschool for the New Year?

Exploring preschool and daycare options for 2024? The new year is the perfect time! Consider the benefits of enrolling in Arbor View Montessori Preschool program: Limited spots for 2024! Register now to secure your child’s place for the new year and save $200. Call 916-787-4004 to schedule a tour.

Why Choose Arbor View Montessori Preschool for the New Year?

Child-Centered Learning: Each child is respected as an individual and our teaching methods are tailored to their unique needs and pace. Fostering Creativity & Independence: Our classrooms are designed to stimulate imagination and independence. Traditional Montessori Curriculum: Language; reading and writing, Math, Science, Practical Life Experiences, Creative Arts, Movement and…

The Color Tablets

The child’s first introduction to color is a box containing six tablets–two red, two blue and two yellow. All the other tablets are the same size, shape and texture. They differ only in highly contrasting color. In this exercise, the child pairs the tablets and learns the corresponding names. This…

Sound Boxes

Preschool Sensorial Learning part 4 In this blog about sensorial Montessori curriculum we present Sound Boxes. At Arbor View Montessori we use Sensorial Materials in the Montessori classroom, which increases the child’s awareness and helps the child form more distinguished impressions of their surroundings. The Sound Boxes To help children…

The Red Rods

Sensorial Materials in the Montessori Classroom – Part 3 This is part three of a multi part blog about sensorial Montessori curriculum. At Arbor View Montessori we use Sensorial Materials in the Montessori classroom that increases the child’s awareness and helps the child form more distinguished impressions of their surroundings.…

The Pink Tower

Sensorial Materials in the Montessori Classroom – Part 1 At Arbor View Montessori we use Sensorial Materials in the Montessori classroom that increases the child’s awareness and helps the child form more distinguished impressions of their surroundings. This brings order and knowledge to the child, and helps him or her…

The Montessori Approach to Early Childhood Education

In The Absorbent Mind, Dr. Montessori wrote, “The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when man’s intelligence itself, his greatest implement is being formed. But not…

Fun Food & Botany

At Arbor View Montessori School, we Integrate botany curriculum lessons about edible seeds, roots, stems, fruits and vegetables. Montessori teaches with a hands-on sensorial method, different from traditional preschool and day care programs. Our Fun Food and Botany curriculum begins with activities that teach your child how food grows, from…

Raising a Future King the Montessori Way

Arbor View Montessori cheers Prince William and Kate for choosing Montessori for their child. Traditional Preschools and Daycare are good, but if you want the best for your child, choose Montessori. The People Magazine article below, Raising a Future King the Montessori Way, by Diana Pearl and posted January 6,…

Benefits of the Pouring Activity

Carrying the water in a pitcher and pouring it into a basin helps the child to perfect his coordination. At Arbor View Montessori Practical Life Exercises involve the use of water with which most children naturally like to play.  As children become absorbed in an activity such as pouring water,…