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612 Evening Street, Worthington, OH 43085Monday to Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.Applications open in January(614) 555-0110
Beech MontessoriWorthington, Ohio
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Our rooms

Our three rooms

  1. 01

    Toddler room

    Ages 2 to 3
    Skills

    • Carries a tray to a table and returns it to its place on the shelf

    • Pours, scoops and wipes up what spills

    • Puts on shoes and hangs a coat on a low hook

    • Joins a short story and a song in a small circle

    Moving up

    A guide and the family talk when a child seems ready for a longer morning among older children. The move starts with short visits to a primary room, with the toddler guide beside the child.

  2. 02

    Primary room

    Ages 3 to 5
    Skills

    • Chooses work from the shelves in a long, uninterrupted morning

    • Prepares snack for friends and cleans the table afterward

    • Counts with wooden bead chains and traces letters in sand

    • Shows a younger child a piece of work they have already learned

    Moving up

    Children stay in the same room, with the same guide, as they grow. In the year a child turns five, the guide and the family talk about the kindergarten year.

  3. 03

    Kindergarten year

    Ages 5 to 6
    Skills

    • Writes short sentences with a pencil and a moveable alphabet

    • Works on a project of their own across several mornings

    • Gives a lesson to the room on something they have learned

    • Takes on a job for the whole community, such as the plants or the library shelf

    Moving up

    At the end of the year, families choose an elementary school. The guide writes a note about the child's work for the next teacher, and we are glad to talk it through.

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Sample levels.

Every child moves at their own pace. A move is decided with the family, never by a birthday alone.

On the shelves

Four areas of work in every room

The shelves hold the same four areas from the toddler room to the kindergarten year. What changes is how far a child takes each one.

  • Hands scrubbing a wooden bowl with a small brush on a wooden tray

    Practical life

    Pouring, scrubbing, folding and preparing snack. The work of caring for oneself and the room, done with real tools at a child's size.

  • A row of painted wooden cubes in graduated sizes on a woven rug, with a child's hands setting one in place

    Sensorial

    Cubes, cylinders and color tablets that a child sorts by size, weight and shade. The hands go first and the eyes follow.

  • A child's hands arranging shells in a tray of sand

    Language

    Sounds, sandpaper letters and a moveable alphabet. Children trace and build words long before they hold a pencil to write.

  • A child's hands sorting colored buttons into small bowls on a wooden table

    Math

    Counting with beads and buttons, then adding and sharing with the same materials, one concrete step at a time.

See the rooms while they are working

A visit shows you all three rooms in the morning.

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