Les Oliviers French Montessori

🇫🇷 Celebrate Bastille Day with Us! 🇫🇷

Join us for a wonderful Bastille Day celebration filled with French culture, delicious food, entertainment, and community spirit!

Les Oliviers is an official sponsor of this special event, helping to bring a taste of France to our community.

📅 Date: 11 July
📍 Venue: IFS International French School
⏰ Time: from 4:30pm till 10:30pm

Bring your family and friends and enjoy an unforgettable French-inspired experience. Vive la France! 🇫🇷✨

☀️ French Summer Podcast List ☀️

Dear Families,

Summer is here, and while school may be on break, French can continue naturally through stories, songs, and meaningful listening experiences.

To help keep the language alive throughout the summer, we have prepared a selection of French-language podcasts for children aged 2 to 6. These podcasts encourage imagination, curiosity, language development, and emotional well-being while offering enjoyable moments for the whole family.

Whether during a road trip, a quiet afternoon, or bedtime, we hope these podcasts will bring a little French into your summer days.

Happy listening! 🇸🇬 ☀️

🌿💚 Happy Father’s Day! 💚🌿

A big thank you to all our amazing dads who joined us for our little forest adventure in celebration of Father’s Day!

Seeing the smiles, laughter, and sweet moments shared between you and your little ones truly filled our hearts. We hope you enjoyed creating special memories together and had a wonderful time exploring nature side by side.

Thank you for being part of this meaningful celebration. Wishing all our dads a joyful and relaxing Father’s Day weekend filled with love, laughter, and precious family moments. 💚

Grateful for the children we can witness grow and become who they are supposed to be ❤️

🌍✨ At Les Oliviers Montessori, our boutique school may be small, but our community is wonderfully diverse!

We are proud to welcome families from 20 different nationalities, creating a rich multicultural environment where children learn not only from their teachers, but also from one another.

Every day is an opportunity to discover new perspectives, celebrate different cultures, and build friendships that cross borders. 💛

Small in size, global in spirit. 🌿

🌎✨

💚 Why Are All the Materials in a Montessori Activity the Same Color?

Have you noticed that many Montessori activities are designed with matching colors throughout the entire set?

This is intentional.

A consistent color creates a visual cue that helps children recognize that all the items belong together as one activity. Even before reading labels or receiving instructions, children can easily identify what belongs on the tray and where materials should be returned when they are finished.

This thoughtful design supports:
✨ Independence – children can set up, use, and restore activities with minimal adult assistance.
✨ Order – materials are clearly organized and easy to maintain.
✨ Focus – there are fewer visual distractions competing for the child’s attention.
✨ Beauty – carefully coordinated materials create an inviting environment that encourages children to engage with their work.

Dr. Montessori believed that the prepared environment should be both functional and beautiful. When children are surrounded by order and beauty, they are naturally drawn to explore, care for their environment, and take pride in their work.

In Montessori, even the color of a tray, cloth, bowl, and pitcher has a purpose. 💚

👀 Looks like something is up…

This weekend, we’re celebrating the dads in our community! 🎉💙

Stay tuned, we’ve got something special planned.

🎭 🎨 ✨ Throwback to the wonderful play our children presented during the school bazaar on Saturday, and to all the beautiful artwork they created and sold in support of charity.

This event was a beautiful example of Montessori principles in action through the arts. Our initial intention was not to prepare a performance for adults. However, as we observed the children’s enthusiasm, joy, and dedication in learning and memorizing their lines, it became clear that they wanted to share their work. We simply followed their lead, and the play became part of the bazaar celebration.

The same happened with the art projects. The children themselves came up with ideas for what they would create and sell: mobiles, bookmarks, paintings, and more. Every piece was made by their own hands. As adults, our role was to provide the materials, guidance when needed, and the freedom for their creativity to flourish.

In Montessori, art is not about producing something for others’ approval. It is a means of self-expression, a reflection of the child’s thoughts, imagination, and individuality. Saturday’s bazaar was a beautiful reminder of what can happen when children are trusted, supported, and given the space to create. ❤️

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It turns out, modern parenting studies are just re-proving Maria Montessori’s wisdom all over again.