MONTESSORI
PEBBLES
Kindergarten
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Kindergarten, the culminating year of the Primary cycle, provides an extraordinary opportunity for 5 and 6 year olds to develop their leadership skills.
Mixing ages provides our kindergarten children with abundant opportunities to develop leadership skills and responsibility and gives the children greater social diversity.
This is the 'leadership year'. They have friends of all ages. The mixed ages and widely varied achievement levels of the children greatly minimize comparisons and competition, which are so damaging to young children.
It also does wonders for a kindergarten child's self-esteem to be admired and looked up to by the younger children. Everything that children have learned in previous years comes together in Kindergarten, giving children a readiness to meet new challenges.
Kindergarten lays the foundation for reading, writing, math and science. It also sets the stage for social development - teaching the basic skills they need to get along with others and building their tolerance for sitting still, and other academic elements for school success. Developmentally appropriate kindergarten classroom encourages the growth of children's self-esteem, their cultural identities, their independence and their individual strength. |
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