Irvine, CA
LePort Montessori School

"For children aged 18 months through 8 years, we offer a Montessori approach, which enables students to experience the joy of learning at an early age. Our Montessori classrooms are committed to providing a loving, safe, and secure environment in which the unfolding of your child?s potential can be nurtured. Each child?s efforts are encouraged and appreciated so that intellectual, moral, creative, physical, and social growth flourishes.
Montessori is the approach to education that recognizes and attempts to develop the potential of the young child. This is accomplished by means of a carefully prepared environment, directed by Montessori teachers trained by the Association Montessori International (AMI) using special teaching materials. The Montessori environment provides the opportunities whereby the child may attain inner discipline and self-management. Children develop responsibility for themselves in the context of the community while exploring all areas of learning at their own pace and according to their own interests.
The basic principle of the Montessori philosophy of education is that every child has all the potentialities of the MAN or WOMAN each can become. To best develop physical, intellectual and spiritual powers, a child must have freedom?a freedom that is achieved through order and self-discipline.
Dr. Montessori developed what she called the "prepared environment" which includes the concepts of freedom, structure, and order.
Children engage in activities that are real rather than fanciful. Each area of the physical environment has a specific and defined order as well as a sequence; thus enabling each child to develop at his/her own pace according to his/her own abilities in a non-competitive atmosphere.
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Excerpted from the preschool's website

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