Casa Program - TrustTheChild Montessori School

Casa Program

Our Casa program, for children aged 2½ – 6, encourages children to explore and discover, collaborate with peers, and take ownership of their education. The Montessori Method encourages self-directed learning that promotes self-confidence, independent thought and action, and critical thinking while fostering social-emotional and intellectual growth.

What Will My Child Learn?

Rigorously trained guides carefully observe their children in the environment, identifying their interests and abilities and developing personalized learning plans tailored to each child’s needs. They guide the learning, introducing new lessons and levels of difficulty as appropriate. The guides offer the encouragement, time, and tools needed to allow children’s natural curiosities to drive learning and provide choices that help them learn, grow, and succeed.

After participating in a lesson presentation from a guide, your child is free to choose activities and to work on their own or with a partner for as long as they wish. Since there is usually only one of each material, your child will develop patience and self-control as they wait for a material to become available.

Leadership & Growth

During the first 2 years in a Casa classroom, children look forward to their turn to be leaders. In their third year, children get their turn and take pride in being the oldest. They serve as role models for younger students; they demonstrate leadership and citizenship skills. They reinforce and consolidate their own learning by teaching their peers concepts they have already mastered. In their senior years, they express confidence, develop self-esteem and self-sufficiency, and show responsibility.

They are introduced to progressively more advanced Montessori materials and sophisticated, fascinating lessons. They experience an important period in which their previous learning from working with concrete Montessori materials begins to become permanent knowledge. A Senior Casa student sees and feel their personal growth as they watch others learn information they have mastered themselves.

As the Casa program culminates at about age 6, children exhibit the independence, critical thinking, collaboration, and leadership that they have been practising during their previous years in the Casa classroom, exercising them independently as they prepare to transition into our Elementary program.

The Casa Classrooms

Specially designed learning materials are displayed on open shelves, easily accessible to the children. Classrooms also include low sinks, child-sized furniture, cozy spaces for quiet reading, reachable shelves with work available for free choice, and child-sized kitchen utensils so children can eat, prepare, and clean up their snacks on their own.

Our Casa classroom feels more like a home than a school. You won’t see desks, nor will a teacher stand at the front of the room delivering a lesson to the whole class. Instead, you’ll see children happily working individually or in small groups, at tables or on the floor near small mats that delineate their own space.

Guides gently guide students to help maintain the organization and cleanliness of this environment, keeping it orderly and attractive. They also help your child understand how to care for materials and clean up after themselves—skills you will be happy to observe carrying over in your home.

"When I visited TrustTheChild Montessori School, I felt that the team's philosophy and passion were great. The Casa classroom's decor was simple, elegant and has a complete set of Montessori materials. The children were relaxed, happy and peaceful when working."

Adam Dovick

Author, A World-Travelling
Observer’s Guide to Montessori

The Materials

Montessori materials are not only beautiful and inviting but ingenious. They teach only 1 skill at a time to allow the child to work independently and master the intended concept. The materials have a built-in control of error. This means the child is able to identify their mistakes and correct them without intervention from a teacher. For example, if a large block is stacked atop a tower of shorter blocks, the tower will fall down. Working with self-correcting materials helps children develop confidence and self-sufficiency and promotes critical thinking. In a sense, they become their own teachers—a skill that will last for life.

The Brown Stair

The Brown Stair is a set of 10 wooden rectangular prisms that are all the same length but vary in height, depth, and weight. The end faces of the prisms graduate from 1 centimeter squared to 10 centimeters (one decimeter) squared. It is part of the Visual Sensorial curriculum and is used in early mathematics and sensory training. Children use the Brown Stair to create a staircase by lining up the prisms from thickest to thinnest. It is a simpler material that isolates a single variable to help children make sense of their world.

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