Southwest Montessori Academy

Join us August 28th for Coffee with Karrin! Current and former SMA parents, donors, friends of SMA, all are invited!
Can’t make it this time? The next one will be on September 18th, so mark your calendars!

It's almost August & we couldn't be more excited to welcome our students back to SMA!

In a Montessori kindergarten year, your child will do real academic work, but it looks different from a typical kindergarten classroom.

Instead of a teacher leading the whole group through the same lesson at the same time, your child will choose from a sequence of hands on materials that build reading, writing, and math skills at their own pace, often working alone or with a partner for long stretches of uninterrupted time.

As the oldest in the age 3-6 classroom, this is the year your child will move into more advanced work like reading longer passages, doing multi-digit math with materials like the golden beads, and taking on small leadership moments, like helping a younger child learn something they mastered last year.

The day isn't broken into short subject blocks. Instead, children settle into one piece of work and stay with it as long as their concentration holds. By the end of the year, your child will have covered kindergarten level reading, writing, and math, but through repetition and self direction rather than worksheets or group instruction.

Montessori isn't what you think. Here are 5 myths we're clearing up.

https://southwestmontessoriacademy.org/five-common-misconceptions-about-montessori/

Smiling kiddos working at their own pace on developmentally appropriate tasks. This is Montessori.

Learn more about the scientific side of Montessori education in this video that is ideal for parents of toddlers and primary (age 3-6) students.

Montessori Parent Ed Workshop: The Science Behind Montessori with Donna D'Hoostelaere _________Request a Free Consultation for your Montessori School he...

Summer Camp Week 6 was all about Intro to Montessori

Ms. Lisa spent the week leading refresher lessons to help the students get ready for the new school year. The children also enjoyed making homemade banana bread—which was delicious! 😊

To beat the heat, the pool has been a great way to stay cool and have some fun. They ended the week helping wash the pools so they could be put away until next summer.

Self regulation is a big deal and it does not happen overnight. At Southwest Montessori Academy, our teachers spend just as much time helping kids name their feelings and work through frustration as they do on academics.

This parent shared about their child's growth and it is the kind of thing that sticks with kids well beyond their time in our classrooms. Social emotional skills like these are built into everything we do here, every single day.