Welcome

1. Welcome • Thank you for your interest in Montessori House for Children Community School. Our School’s philosophy has it’s basic concept respect for the young child, the child's work, dignity and uniqueness.

2. We nurture in each child the love of learning, and guide the child to strive to reach for excellence.

3. At any level, the Montessori guide gives utmost care to the way each lesson is given to the children. Lessons must be clear, esthetically appealing and striking to the imagination so that the children love what they learn.

4. The Great Lessons • From this perspective, every topic of education can fall under one of the Great Lessons. • Dr. Montessori also called the lessons learned in Cosmic Education as the Great Lessons.

5. At the elementary level we are bombarded by the term cosmic education. This is an elementary term used in Montessori education symbolizing the student in relation to the world and the universe.

6. The Beginning of the Universe and Earth • The First Great Lesson • The first Great Lesson explores how the universe and earth may have come into being. The story uses currently accepted scientific theories to explain the origins of the universe an the earth:

7. Life Comes to Earth • The second Great Lesson • After hearing the First Great Lesson, students have a sense of how the universe and earth formed. In the Second Great Lesson, students are introduced to the life that gradually appeared on earth. They gain an overall impression of the major plant and animal groups that developed and the order in which these groups appeared.

8. Humans Come to Earth • The Third Great Lesson • In the Third Great Lesson, students gain a general impression of the challenges faced by the earliest human beings who lived on earth, and how these early humans met those challenges. The Third Great Lesson focuses on the Common Needs of People, (food, shelter ,clothing ,medicine , transportation, defence ,art and religion/spirituality) and how early humans met these needs.

9. How Writing Began • The Fourth Great Lesson • In the Fourth Great Lesson, students gain an impression of how humans invented writing. The students will learn about how humans first drew pictures (hieroglyphs) to represent objects and ideas, and how later humans developed symbols that represented the sounds of a language. Even later, these together made an alphabet. Language became more and more important as humans started to form societies, groups of people living and working together and having traditions, beliefs, customs, nationalities, or other social relationships in common.

10. How Numbers Began • The Fifth Great Lesson • In the Fifth Great Lesson, students gain an impression of how humans invented numbers. • Numbers are words or symbols used to describe and calculate amounts. Numerals refer to the symbols used to represent specific numbers. The history of numbers is a long and fascinating one. The Fifth Great Lesson included several of the most significant achievements in the development of numbers and describes how each achievement links to the system of numbers many people use in the world today.

11. Cosmic Education aims to help our elementary children understand the cosmic task of each element and each force in the universe. The Five Great Lessons open the world to Language, Math ,Geometry, History, Zoology, Botany, and Geography are presented to the student in a concrete way and as parts related to the whole.

12. Maria Montessori once said, “Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world”.