EVERGREEN MONTESSORI

“Free the child’s potential and you transform him into the world.’”—Maria Montessori

Here in Evergreen Montessori, we believe that young education is essential and can help prepare your child for school and a foundation healthy lifestyle. We are here to support them on their journey of discovering and unlocking their passions and interests.

Practical life

Practical life means everyday activities. These are exercises that help the child learn how to do living activities in a purposeful way. Typical Practical Life activities include sweeping, dusting, and food preparation. Practical life activities help give the child a sense of being and belonging, established through participation in daily life with us.

Maths

Developing mathematical skills and spatial awareness is one of the most important things we can help children with. Children learn to recognize shapes, angles, size, position, and the spaces they live in. Children are surrounded by numbers. “‘How many brothers and sisters do you have” “Soon I will be 4 ”. By understanding patterns, sequencing, recognition of numerals, quantities, decimals etc. at this stage a child allows themselves to thrive in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and excel in later life.

Language

Language development is an essential part of early childhood. Children hear language from a wide variety of sources each and every day from parents, teachers, other children, and the world around them. Children use Montessori materials to explore letters, sounds, handwriting and eventually spelling and writing.

Culture

In the Montessori Cultural area, we teach our children Geography, History, Art, Music, and Science. Most importantly we teach children to have a love and respect for nature. The children learn how to differentiate between living and non-living things, how land, air, and water make up the earth, matching activities such as Botany and Zoology nomenclatures. Our children enjoy working with the Continent puzzles and the Botany and Zoology puzzles. There are many other activities in the Montessori Cultural area to enrich our children’s minds about our world.

Sensorial Life

Sensorial is used in a Montessori classroom to develop the five senses: sight, listening, touch, taste, and smell. Montessori Sensorial activities help children to think cognitively, helping them in their future learning and their personal and interpersonal development when a child combines Montessori materials with sensorial work, it helps them become more logical, perceptive and aware.

Montessori Routine


8:30 am	Evergreen doors open. Children can arrive from 8:30-9:00 am
9:00 am	Circle time starts. This is where we all welcome everyone into the classroom, sing songs, talk about the children news, and chat about the theme of the week.
9:30 am	Montessori work cycle begins
11:00 am	Snack Time
11:30 am	Arts and crafts/ activity
12:00 pm	Outside/ Free play
12:30 pm	Half timers go home
1:00 pm	Hot Lunch ( example of menu is below)
2:00 pm	Activity Time/ messy play/ role play
3:00 pm	Outside Time
4:00 pm	Snack Time
5:00 pm	Starting to chill down from the day and get ready to go home.

Fees

Full Time: 8.30am – 6pm | €688 per month

Part Time: 8.30am – 2pm | €426 per month

Half Day: 9.00am – 12.30pm | €265 per month

These fees are with the ECCE and NCS subsidies.

Full time (6pm)children are automatically enrolled in all camps and it is included in their monthly fee. Their fees are due 12 months of the year.

Half day(2pm) and part time(12:30pm) children’s fees are due for 10 months of the year. Camps are optional and at an additional cost for these children.

Here at Evergreen we partake in the NCS scheme. For more information please see ncs.gov.ie.

We also partake in the Early Childhood Care and Education scheme from September to June. Children can start ECCE when they are 2 years and 8 months of age and continue until they transfer to primary school (provided that they are not older than 5 years and 6 months at the end of the pre-school year). For each eligible child, the ECCE grant will be calculated on the basis of €64.50 a week.