At City-gate Montessori Academy, we blend the Montessori educational curriculum with Christian faith-based approach; instilling important values and principles such as love, compassion, integrity and kindness to provide a nurturing and enriching environment for children to grow and thrive. We believe in fostering a life-long love of learning. Our curriculum is carefully crafted to integrate Montessori Curriculum, Alberta early learning and Christian basic principles, creating a holistic approach to early childhood education that nurtures each child's mind, body, and spirit.
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Our dedicated team of educators are passionate about creating a supportive and inclusive atmosphere where every child feels valued and encouraged to reach their full potential. Through hands-on learning experiences, creative expression, and meaningful connections with others, we strive to equip children with the skills and values they need to succeed in both academics and life. With a focus on individualized attention and personalized learning plans, we aim to meet the unique needs and interests of each child, helping them to develop confidence, independence, and a lifelong love for learning.
Why Montessori Education?
All parents hope to find the best educational program for their children. And they recognize the lasting impact that early learning experiences have on a child’s development and future learning. What is it about the Montessori philosophy and practice that is so appealing to parents?
For more than a century, Montessori has been thriving around the globe, and contemporary research validates the effectiveness of the Montessori Method. Several key elements of the approach meet the educational goals today’s parents have for their children, including growing into capable people who will be have a strong sense of self, the ability to connect with others, and the potential to be productive throughout their lives. With Montessori, that growth starts early. The early years (birth through age 6) are a critical time to set a strong foundation for who a child will become and the role she or he will play in the future.
A Montessori education develops students who are capable, accountable, knowledgeable people who have the strong sense of self they will need to thrive in the real world.
In the first Casa dei Bambini (Children’s House) founded by Dr. Maria Montessori in 1907, teachers worked with children ages 2½ through 6. Dr. Montessori noted the benefits of children of different ages working and learning together in the same community. Much as in a family, she noted, older students helped younger students within the environment, and both older and younger students benefited. The multi-age classroom became an important tenet of the Montessori Method.
“People start educating children when they are capable of understanding: they only educate the conscious mind. They say that children under five are incapable of benefiting from education because they do not understand enough. ”
Maria Montessori
The 1946 London Lectures, p. 77
The Young Child
“The child’s type of mind is an absorbing mind; it absorbs whatever is around it. An adult’s mind elaborates. We call the child’s mind the absorbent mind. It is a mind endowed with special psychic powers, which we lose later, because whatever we adults want to acquire we have to acquire with effort and fatigue. ”
Maria Montessori
The 1946 London Lectures, p. 65