Importance of a three year Montessori cycle

The Montessori Children's House experience is by design a three-year cycle, that is, two years of preschool plus the kindergarten year. A Three year old joins the Montessori program as a novice, aspiring to learn and do what the older peers are doing. During the second year the child becomes an apprentice. The foundation of math and language activities had been laid out and the child works on mastering those skills while he/she watches the new first year novices coming in, and starts to help them!

The third year is when it all comes together and the child comes into his/her own and becomes a leader and a mentor! They feel at home in their Montessori environment. It is the year when the child realizes the benefits of all the work of the prior two years, where they put it all together and explode in their academic development. Suddenly, they go from sounding out words, to reading sentences. They get numbers, and are delighted in doing arithmetic into the thousands. They can draw pictures, and may write entire illustrated stories.

Give your child the opportunity to reap the rewards of his/her prior experience, and gain the confidence and academic foundation that are only possible by completing the 3-year Montessori cycle. The yellow school bus and the neighborhood friends will always be there, but the gift of the third/final year at King’s Wood will allow your child to enter their elementary years with a richer academic experience, strong social skills and a lifelong love of learning.