Kindergarten
The Kindergarten year at Mississippi Valley is an incredible culmination of the child's rich experiences. In your child's first two years, the staff is cultivating seeds of kindness, independence, emotional intelligence, a deep understanding and love of math and language, and joyful exploration in art.
These seeds begin to grow through the child's discovery of their abilities and interconnection with peers, and in the Kindergarten year, the child is blossoming. Seeing a child step into their leadership, their confident emotional selves, and their love of learning is both extraordinarily powerful and a formative experience for the rest of their lives.
The Montessori experience is one of deep respect for your child. Carefully preparing the environment for your child each day, we look to their developmental needs and closely observe their individualized interests. For children in their kindergarten year, afternoons provide extended time to get deeply engaged with activities that interest them and help in their development. This is a special time when they work among peers with special guidance from the Montessori teacher. Children get into more advanced work in language and math and get to realize special projects that require more concentration and will. In the final year in the Children’s House student’s previous experiences are consolidated and expanded upon through being “models” or “leaders,” for the younger children. They draw upon their previous years of preparation for this full blossoming in the last year of Montessori’s Primary cycle.
At the end of the year they graduate and bid us farewell to enter first grade.
