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Alpha Montessori School, Inc.
11430 Wornall Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64114
Alpha Montessori School is located at 114th Terrace and Wornall Road. Housed inside John Knox Presbyterian Kirk.
In a Montessori classroom the teaching materials are divided into four major categories, Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, and Mathematics. Each unit of work is specifically designed to develop skills, evoke a perception and/or convey a concept. As the child uses the various pieces of equipment his own latent potentials are touched and brought forth through a process of auto-education.
Practical Life is the foundation for all activities in a Montessori classroom. It includes the mastery of caring for self, the environment and development of social responsibility.
Sensorial develops awareness of the environment and ways we relate to one another. Through the development of the senses, refinement of perception and understanding is cultivated.
Language includes conversation, articulation, vocabulary, writing, reading, grammar, literature, drama and foreign language.
Mathematics the child is introduced to solid quantity and its proportion in various relationships. Our goal is to give the child a concrete frame of reference for later case of mental calculation.
Alpha Montessori Classrooms also include Arts & Crafts, Cultivating the Spirit, Geography, Music & Movement, Nutrition, Science, Social Studies, Spanish, Virtues and Yoga.
Practical
Life
Math
Sensorial
Language
Why
Alpha
Montessori?
Alpha Montessori School�'s
goal is to do everything in our power to enhance the child�'s journey of success.
Alpha Montessori School is dedicated to the individual and unique development of each child.
Alpha Knows
Every child
is born with vast inherent potential that can only be activated and brought forth through experience.
Alpha Montessori School provides a step towards self-discovery and total enfoldment as the child moves into a broader scope physically, socially, and
intellectually.
Alpha Montessori School Highlights:
Experienced, Loving Staff
Full-Shade playground with School Garden
"Freindship Classes"
Flexible Days and Times to fit ANY Schedule
and ................ of course, LOVE!
Linda Dougherty - Owner, Director
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Wende Dawkins - Co-Director, Lead Teacher
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Gloria Ha - Co-Teacher
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Lee Bruegger - Lead Teacher
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Latha Baskar - Lead Teacher
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Donna Gravenstreter - Lead Teacher
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Ryan Bell - Lead Teacher
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Susan Koenig - Office Manager
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This area of work is the foundation for all the other activities in a Montessori classroom. Here the child integrates his various facets, physical, mental, emotional and social that he might function as a unit. With these exercises he achieves focus, concentration, awareness of coordination, self-direction, social reciprocation and ultimately responsible independence.
1. Fastening Frames – learning to button, buckle, zip, snap, hook, and lace.
2. Pouring – muscular control, hand-eye coordination.
3. Cutting – bi-manual coordination, precision and concentration.
4. Cleaning – dust, mop, sweep, polish, brush, for gross muscle control.
5. Washing and Rinsing – sequence of action, cleanliness.
6. Folding – attention to detail, manual dexterity.
7. Food Preparation – bi-manual coordination, social concern.
8. Arranging – table, flowers, shelves for orderliness.
9. Skills – sewing, carpentry, ironing, cooking, gardening for muscular coordination and increasing independence.
Sensorial training is designed to help the child become aware of the numerous factors in his environment such as color, sound, form, texture, pattern, temperature, dimension, weight, fragrance, taste, and density. His/her discernment of these is determined by the degree of refinement of his senses.
Until the child can create order out of the mass of impressions assailing his senses he cannot function on a truly human level. The following materials give him the means to categorize these impressions permitting logical, deductive thinking.
1. Cylinder Blocks – dimension, manual dexterity, focus.
2. Tower, Stair and Rods – sequential dimension, manual dexterity, focus.
3. Color Tablets – color awareness, contrast, identity, and gradation.
4. Geometric Solids – solid forms, stereognostic development.
5. Geometric Cabinet – plane forms, solid and abstract.
6. Tough Boards – tactile sense of rough, smooth, and gradations of each.
7. Thermic bottles – baric sense of hot, cold and degrees of each.
8. Baric Tablets- weight, identities and comparisons.
9. Sound Cylinders – auditory development, loud, soft, and degrees of each.
10. Constructive Triangles – awareness of plane forms, internal factors of forms.
Language is man’s primary means of communication. It’s acquisition, expansion and refinement are essential to his fullest expression of thought and feelings within the framework of a society. Montessori’s emphasis on language is not only to develop verbal skills but also to give the ego greater scope of unfoldment
1. Sandpaper Letters – introduction to language symbols, detection of speech defects.
2. Consonant Game – practice alphabet sounds, letter location in words.
3. Movable Alphabet – spelling without the requirement of writing.
4. Word Labels – introduction to printed word and, interpretive reading.
5. Noun, Verb, Adjective, etc. Games – parts of speech, grammar.
6. Phonograms – non-phonetic spelling and reading, extension of vocabulary.
7. Consonant Blends – sounds of letter combination, extension of basic language keys.
8. Puzzle Box – mastery of irregular words, development of memory.
9. Metal Insets – preparation of hand for writing, skill of writing strokes and holding instruments, hand-eye coordination.
10. Individual Chalkboards – practice writing letters, words and sentences.
11. Language Symbols – emphasis on parts of speech in written language.
12. Reading Classification Packets – extension of vocabulary, reading.
13. Rhyming Game – analysis of word structure, preparation for poetry.
14. Globes and Maps – geography vocabulary, indirect preparation for foreign language.
15. Grammar Boards – analysis of sentence structure, exploration of language.
In Montessori’s math program the child is initially acquainted with solid quantity and its proportion in various relationships. Then when numerals and equations are given in the next stage, that set of written symbols has clear meaning in the child’s mind. Our aim is to not create ostentatious mathematicians at four and five years of age but to give him a concrete frame of reference for later case of mental calculation.
1. Long Rods – awareness of proportionate increase of quantity.
2. Numerical Rods – sequence of quantity and the names of amounts 1-10.
3. Sandpaper Number Symbols – introduction to written numerals.
4. Spindle Boxes – counting of loose quantities, practice in sequence counting, introduction of value of zero.
5. Shell Game – concept of odd and even numbers, concept of pairs.
6. Decimal Layout – sensorial impression of decimal association of quantity and symbol in hierarchy of numbers.
7. Bankers Game – association of quantity and symbol in hierarchy of numbers.
8. Teen Board – quantity, numerals and vocabulary of 11 through 19.
9. Tens Board – sequence of 10-99, passage of numbers from one set of 10 to next 10, association of quantity and symbol.
10. Bead Frame – linear counting of the squares and cubes of 1-10, skip counting.
11. Positive and Negative Strip Boards – learning addition and subtraction combinations.
12. Combinations Snake Game – practice in addition combination of several factors.
13. Binomial and Trinomial Cubes – sensorial introduction to binomial and trinomial theorems.
Drama Night
Mon, JAn 30 _ 6pm
Review "E" Week
Empathy
Encouragement
Etiquette
Weekly Specials Schedule
Monday - Music with Ms. Kathleen
Tuesday - Yoga with Ms. Wende
Wednesday - DanceWorks Conservatory
Thursday - Show and Tell and Happy Feet
Friday - Show and Tell
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SCHOOL PROGRAM
School year runs from September thru May.
Enrollment accepted after May will be based on availability of placement requirements.
** Registration fees will secure placement.***
TOURS
Tours are scheduled in the mornings for you to see Alpha Montessori Program in action.
We encourage that your child comes with you on the tour if possible.
For information to be mailed to you please contact us via phone (816)942-5567 or by email info_alphamontessorikc.com
