Little People Montessori Preschool is a home away from home, situated in Houghton, offering full and half day care.
Little People Montessori Preschool is a small home away from home school which is based on Montessori teaching principles and includes Montessori and traditional equipment to best equip your child with all the skills needed in life. Our teaching methods are used to prepare your child not just for school but for life, and to develop your child wholly : physically, socially, emotionally, spiritually
. Children are worked with on a one on one basis and thus develop at their own pace and ability. Ages are mixed from 2-5 years old thus learning from each other. Younger children have the opportunity to develop their abilities from older children and older children learn skills from younger ones as they reach their different sensitive periods in terms of sensitive periods to order, detail etc. We offer equipment and educational toys according to their abilities, including practical life activities, sensorial materials to refine their sense, mathematical equipment and language activities that are seriated from concrete to abstract and simple to complex. Art is a daily activity, formal and freestyle working with different mediums. Group work is where children learn social and cultural aspects as well as music and movement, musical instruments, toddlerobics (gym) , brain gym, ball skills, hoop work and balance, thus developing gross motor movements. Fridays include baking where practical life skills are utilized and is a favorite. Children enjoy a full and stimulating day indoors and out, are showered love and look forward to attending school always.