Ignite your child’s natural curiosity,
independence and joy for lifelong learning
at Forestville Montessori School.
The Montessori Difference
At FMS we play to your child’s innate strengths – regardless of their age or ability, without competitive pressure. We cultivate thinking outside the box, expanding their horizons, taking them beyond accomplished.
Embracing your child’s individuality while nurturing ways to explore a deep and meaningful understanding of the world around them.
Seeking adventures to ignite your child’s natural curiosity, energy and joy for lifelong learning.
Offering your child hands-on, self-paced, collaborative learning. We explore individual interests to enable ongoing positive engagement and enthusiasm.
Playing to your child’s innate strengths – regardless of their age or abilities – without competitive pressure. We cultivate thinking outside the box.
Montessori materials that offer your child the world
Children at all times and at all ages are engaging curiously with the world, absorbing what they see and building their understanding of the world. In seeking to understand the world, young children ask so many questions! The Montessori geography materials meet that curiosity with simple, beautiful objects that help children put the world into context. As Dr. Montessori explains in Education for a New World, "Children are not able…
Four things Montessori teachers work hard NOT to do
If you come to observe a Montessori classroom, you may notice that the teacher is not the center of attention. You’ll see children moving around, working on various tasks, solving problems, and helping each other, while the teacher moves quietly through the room, watching, waiting, stepping in briefly. This is a careful, deliberate practice (and, for what it’s worth, it may be the hardest thing a Montessori teacher learns to…
Playfulness: Why it Matters to Kids (and Adults)
Did you and your children have fun these last school holidays? The winter holidays have us indoors much more than in the warmer months, so kids tend to get more creative at play. Hopefully you had some time to play too. Wintery days often call for board games, arts, crafts, and cooking, and more time getting imaginative at play. Play is a way for children to process and make sense…
