Parenting Resources - Parent Education (Birth - 3)
How do I set up my home to help my child - from birth? To become independent at home? How do Foundation Groups help? What sorts of things will my child be learning and how can this structure support their socio-emotional development?
Sensorial
Sensorial exercises are vital to help a child develops his or her mathematical mind.
All information is taken in through the five senses: taste, touch, sound, smell, and sight. Sensorial exercises provide children with the opportunity to take in clear, distinct information from specific senses, make classifications based upon those sensorial experiences, and begin organising and integrating that information with what the child knows of the world.
Practical Life
These activities emphasise the care of self for these young ones.
In the Foundation Programme, Practical Life exercises include learning how to take off and put on one’s own shoes, toileting, grooming, food preparation, and more. The Foundation classroom provides many different opportunities for the toddler to manipulate food using real child-size utensils, which are easy to hold and control. Typical cooking actions are broken down into individual activities allowing the child to repeat, practise, and gain mastery over their hands.
Grace & Courtesy
Modeling of gracious actions and words help the very young child to learn and absorb social structures by providing him or her with the vocabulary and behavior to build positive relationships with others. They include lessons in how to greet others appropriately, be seated properly, and how to clean up after one’s work.
Support at Home
Montessori is a way of life. Join IMS’ Matthew Sneyd & Jennifer Yu as we talk with parents about Surviving & Thriving with your preschooler during the global pandemic in a 4-part Workshop series:
Home Learning with Preschoolers
03:10 Understand the needs of your preschooler
05:19 Take advantage of your home to maximise learning
06:24 Learning through doing
26:55 Activities that will keep your preschooler entertained
27:46 How to cope with cabin fever
Daily Challenges with Preschoolers
Setting up little ones for success in daily Routines:
02:33 Bedtime
18:08 Healthy Eating
34:34 Learning to use the Toilet
02:23 Toddlers and preschoolers are compelled to touch and grasp everything around them, and are almost always on the move
09:30 How do parents safely and constructively support this necessary part of development?
Language and Emotional development for Preschoolers
Infusing everyday activities with language that expands vocabulary growth, curiosity and cognitive development:
01:04 Using language to set your child up with a positive, proactive growth mindset
07:53 The importance of reading to your little one as a predictor of outcomes
