Prepared Montessori Enviroments
We call the workspaces Prepared Environments since they offer what students need at each stage of their development.
Our facilities consider a space of approximately 3m2 per student, natural lighting, ventilation and security so that children can attend to their occupations in the most appropriate way, in an atmosphere of beauty and warmth. The furniture corresponds to the children's size to promote their free movement and independence.
Our work tools are known as development materials, since adults are facilitators of learning, that is why they are known as Guides. The Montessori development material is grouped by work area and is characterized by using real elements and exact proportions; most have their own error control and have a progression from simple to complex, and from concrete to abstract. The environments have a large number of materials, and there is only one of each, which encourages children to diversify their work and repeat the processes until it is mastered.
The groups are led by Guides and Assistants trained by the International Montessori Association, and by English Teachers accredited to teach this language, immersed in the environment.
At Montessori de la Condesa we work with multigrade groups, where young, medium and older students coexist; We welcome cultural, racial, socioeconomic, religious, and gender diversity; we respect differences and include, within our possibilities, children with different abilities.
Children's Community
The Children's Community is the first space between home and school, where we welcome the little ones from the moment they can walk on their own until they are ready for the next stage (Children's House or preschool).
During this period, thanks to their absorbing mind, children are built internally, they acquire the language that surrounds them, they conquer their body (walking, hand-eye coordination, toilet training), they begin to actively integrate into the family and socialize outside of it.
Within these small environments they will find exercises in: Practical Life, Language, Coordination and Creative Expression, which we accompany with school garden work, yoga and readings in English.
In Montessori de la Condesa we have three environments for fifteen children each, in charge of a Guide and an Assistant.
Children's House
This is the first properly schooled stage. Children perfect the acquired skills in the previous stage and are now preparing to explore the world through their senses, experimenting with the material at their disposal to carry out their own processes and build their first learnings.
The Children's House responds to the needs and interests from the age of three to before they start upper elementary; This is the period in which the little ones constantly ask: What is this…?, and with silence they seem to ask us: Help me to do it for myself.
In Montessori de la Condesa, children will be able to work in the areas of: Practical Life, Sensorial and Cultural Areas, Language, Mathematics and English. Outside the environment they can go to the Library, work in the school garden and receive weekly sessions of Yoga and Physical Education.
We have three environments with a group of thirty children each, in charge of a Guide, an Assistant and an English Teacher.
Lower and Upper Elementary
From the age of six, children begin a new stage of development, where they experience great physical, emotional, social and intellectual changes; Their capacity for abstraction and imagination leads them to ask other types of questions: How is it…?, awakening their reasoning mind.
These are the children who belong to the second level of development, according to Dr. María Montessori, with whom we work through Cosmic Education, which corresponds to a transversality of significant content that begins with great stories that allow them to know even what they cannot see or touch, and that will lead them to continue building their learning through investigation. We could say that at this stage children ask us: Help me to think for myself.
Montessori de la Condesa has three lower elementary and two upper elementary environments of 30 students each, in charge of a Guide, an Assistant and an English teacher.
