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Our smaller classes will provide personalized care for your child’s education. |
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Your children. Our future. At Lord of Life Christian Montessori School, we cherish and plan for your child’s future. Our primary goal is to assist young children in reaching their fullest potential. We are committed to nurturing the educational and spiritual life of our students on their journey to become lifelong learners.
Smaller classes = greater care. From Kindergarten through 5th grade, your child's academic, social, spiritual, and emotional needs will be nourished. With our limited enrollment policy of 120 students, we offer greater personalized attention and care to your child’s education; and smaller student/teacher ratios ensure that your child’s skills and learning abilities will be carefully observed by our experienced educators in an individualized environment. Higher standards
CMS stands among the finest educational institutions in the community. While other schools struggle or fail to deliver the quality of education and values you desire for your child, CMS adheres to higher educational standards and Christian principles, and instills the building blocks and foundational truths that will influence your child for life. The reasonable tuition offers a greater value than most private schools in the area. Your child’s future begins at CMS. |
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Reading Development in the Montessori School |
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To help you sort out some of those important ideas about how children become fluent readers, let's summarize the main points: Decoding words is only the entry point. Comprehension must go hand-in-hand with decoding for good reading.
Children who develop early habits of "barking at print" may never become fluent readers.
Learning words in isolation (e.g., on flash cards) removes reading from its normal context of getting meaning from real language.
Likewise, please don't encourage too many computer alphabet games that separate decoding from meaning.
Children without a good base of language and thinking skills have trouble understanding and applying what they read.
There are two main ways to recognize words: By sight (words which cannot be shown with pictures or which do not follow the phonetic pattern) or using phonics (decoding).
Some intelligent children do not easily remember words by sight. They need to depend on phonics in order to learn to read words, and they learn best through methods that incorporate all the senses (sight, hearing, speech).
Most children do not have the neural development required for phonics work sheets until sometime between their fifth and sixth year of age. Early childhood programs should focus on language and listening, not pencil and paper drills.
Reading comprehension is built on mental networks formed throughout childhood - beginning at birth and continuing with the opportunities for language in the real world. Experience = comprehension, and poor comprehension may be the result of inadequate experience with the ideas presented.
Good reading requires intellectual risk taking. A perfectionist environment where mistakes are barely tolerated will inhibit a child's reading development.
Early reading is not always a sign of giftedness. If it replaces other activities which are developmentally appropriate (talking, playing, etc.), it may be a danger signal. If your child shows symptoms of delayed language, anxiety, or difficulty with interpersonal relationships, reading emphasis should be postponed. The best predictor of your child's later reading success is the time you spend reading to them. Fluency and inflection as practiced by an adult reader becomes the foundation of your child's ability to comprehend and recreate language while reading. Excerpted from Children Read With Their Brains |
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