Challenges

Children love to learn by doing activities... At Bay City Montessori - all of our classroom tools are specifically designed to challenge each of the childs senses, to enhance their learning. You'll see activities here that you won't find in other Geelong Preschools or Kindergartens. [caption id="attachment_54" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Custom Equipment Designed To Challange The Senses"][/caption] The environment is a nurturing, family environment that encourages the child to expand on their natural talents.

Outside…

Outside in the play area there are many activities to entertain the children. From a gazebo, fort and cubby house, to sandpits, slides, swings... we even have a racetrack! There are various gardens comprising herbs, vegetables and flowers, which the children enjoy planting and maintaining.[gallery link="file" columns="2"]

What Is Montessori?

Observation Of Children As A Basis... Developed by Maria Montessori, the method involves always observing first and then devising the teaching, taking the lead from the child. She developed the theory of sensitive periods in development, saying that "children pass through definite periods in which they reveal psychic aptitudes and possibilities which afterwards disappear". That is why at particular epochs of their life, they reveal an intense and extraordinary interest in certain objects and exercise, which one might look for in vain at a later age. [caption id="attachment_191" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Maria Montessori"][/caption] During such a period the child is endowed with a special sensitivity which ...