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Children's House
Our goal with Children’s House is to provide the prepared environment that develops independence and social skills, through sensorial experience supported by self-directed discovery & learning.
3 Years to 6 Years
Full day: 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
School Day: 8:00 AM – 2:45 PM
Casa in Italian means House. At the age of three, the child is introduced to the world outside and in Montessori terms it is called Casa (Children’s House). Casa is the prepared environment for the child to explore, orient and understand the real world around him.
"Thus it happens that at the age of three, life seems to begin again; for now consciousness shines forth in all its fullness and glory. Between these two periods, the unconscious period and the one which follows it of conscious development, there seems to be a well marked boundary." (The Absorbent Mind, p. 151)
At this stage, the child begins to show pockets of consciousness. The child is beginning to develop awareness, then shift from creation to crystallization and construction of creation. Creation was made in the unconscious mind (0-3 years). The child shows more signs of adult influence. He is more inclined to learning order, sequencing, early math, language, and music which leads to increased mastery of his motor skills. He would be able to read and write as a result of improvement in movements and balance. At the end of this stage, the child will demonstrate an innate desire to choose and be independent on many tasks. Dr. Montessori refers to this as the “Help me do it myself” stage.
A Casa is the specially prepared environment to develop their needs. The need for social contact is more. The child is self-referent, is more aware of how the society is constructed and starts to reason about their role.
Human tendencies from being a child to being an adult in different stages remain the same. At N4MA, we strive to apply strategies that develop the tendencies as they apply to different walks of the child’s developmental stages. One way to understand these is by answering the below questions over behavior sets that are needed to accomplish a satisfying result.
Casa in Italian means House. At the age of three, the child is introduced to the world outside and in Montessori terms it is called Casa (Children’s House). Casa is the prepared environment for the child to explore, orient and understand the real world around him.
"Thus it happens that at the age of three, life seems to begin again; for now consciousness shines forth in all its fullness and glory. Between these two periods, the unconscious period and the one which follows it of conscious development, there seems to be a well marked boundary." (The Absorbent Mind, p. 151)
At this stage, the child begins to show pockets of consciousness. The child is beginning to develop awareness, then shift from creation to crystallization and construction of creation. Creation was made in the unconscious mind (0-3 years). The child shows more signs of adult influence. He is more inclined to learning order, sequencing, early math, language, and music which leads to increased mastery of his motor skills. He would be able to read and write as a result of improvement in movements and balance. At the end of this stage, the child will demonstrate an innate desire to choose and be independent on many tasks. Dr. Montessori refers to this as the
A Casa is the specially prepared environment to develop their needs. The need for social contact is more. The child is self-referent, is more aware of how the society is constructed and starts to reason about their role.
Human tendencies from being a child to being an adult in different stages remain the same. At N4MA, we strive to apply strategies that develop the tendencies as they apply to different walks of the child’s developmental stages. One way to understand these is by answering the below questions over behavior sets that are needed to accomplish a satisfying result.
What is out there?
Exploration, exactness and manipulation are characteristics that the child exhibits, when seeking answers to what is out there. Building a mental map of our surroundings, developing a sense of direction, distance, time and sequence is necessary to develop.
What do I do with what is out there?
In this stage, development happens with control of error. As evident with the human history of how civilization has evolved to what it is today, it is all human’s ability to imagine things, seeking out new ways to apply on top of what they know. A child uses his imagination to learn and abstract this knowledge to apply creatively.
How can I carry out my abstract ideas?
A child or even an adult makes this leap using five key behaviors. manipulation, exactness, repetition, control of error, perfection We would never agree less that starting from a toothbrush to a space shuttle, the development did not happen without mastery of these behaviors. The child’s motivation is such that he applies these behaviors to carry out his ideas.
How can I tell others what I have done?
Communication is the key to the rest of the tendencies. If the child has to make progress in development, there has to be a way of expression. Without it he cannot build knowledge nor he is able to leverage the wisdom from the past and specifically his own past.
The children respond to their environment and the montessori casa applies these same tendencies to its activities, just that is more prominent in the Casa, with the child starting to reason.
How does N4MA support a child’s tendencies to reach normalization at this stage?
Our carefully prepared environment is filled with materials that support the below areas to attain Normalization. Here are the Children’s House curriculum
- Practical Life
- Sensorial
- Language
- Math
- Geography
The children enhance their tendencies from previous stages and add new to their belt as they start to understand, seek answers and then to challenge.