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For Children Ages 2.5-6 Years Old
Children's House
Your child wants to solve problems. Pursuing answers is deeply embedded in their mind and spirit. At this early age, they engage all their senses to find out “What?” As they make a discovery for themselves, the knowledge gained will anchor itself deep in their minds and habits.
Raise A Child Who Loves Learning
Each child is on their unique educational journey. Where they stop and spend more time is up to them. The guide carefully observes the child, stepping in to offer help only when necessary. After spending three years in an environment prepared for their success and under the care of certified guides helping them unlock their potential, your child will step into elementary education with an incredible foundation of strong academic knowledge. More importantly, they will have their feet firmly planted in the path of a lifelong love for learning.
A Love for Learning
During their first six years of life, your child has a drive to complete two essential tasks. First, they want to construct themselves. Secondly, they want to adapt to their environment to develop into an individual of their time and place. The Children’s House at Revere is designed to help your child achieve their two goals and meet these developmental needs. Every material is there because your child has shown a deep interest in it. The guide is present to connect your child to the material. Through their own effort, your child will acquire both knowledge and a love for learning.
Designed to Support Your Child’s Natural Development
We can equip our children to thrive by providing them with a prepared environment curated for their development and success! No matter what they face in the outside world, they will have the knowledge, skills, and experience to overcome obstacles and succeed in the adult world.
Preparing Children to Thrive in Every Circumstance
Our Children's House Program (8:30am-3:30pm) includes two distinct class experiences for the child.
The morning session (8:30am-12:00pm) is a three hour work cycle. Children receive individual lessons and work independently while developing strong concentration skills.
The full day session (1:00pm-3:30pm) represents the afternoon segment where older children engage in more advanced activities.
Lunch and outdoor play is from 12:00pm-1:00pm. Midday transition involves careful material storage before communal lunch, fostering social interactions. Outdoor play follows, promoting physical activity and social development.
A Typical day in the Children’s House Program
Culture
Mathematics
Language
Sensorial
Practical Life
In the Children’s House, your child will explore at their own pace and develop knowledge, skills, and proficiency in the following five areas:
The Children's House Curriculum
- Gaining independence
- Thinking logically
- Solving problems
- Concentrating for prolonged periods of time
- Coordination of movements
- Interacting peacefully with people of every age and background
Your child has a deep sense of purpose tucked within their inner being. They want to carry out intentional, methodical, and meaningful activities. The area of Practical Life invites them to walk through sequential steps allowing them to develop the concentration and coordination necessary for more complex tasks.
Practical Life learning gives the child access to fragile, breakable objects they see adults handle that are outside their reach. In the Children’s House, they learn to rightly and carefully operate everyday objects regardless of their age. Practicing with normal household items, our children familiarize themselves with the cycle of work. They carry out a process from start to finish and develop logical thought processes. As they sweep the floor, they grow their gross motor skills. Their fine motor skills flourish in sewing, pouring, or polishing. In all of these playful and purposeful practices, our children learn how to solve problems and hone habits of perseverance. Further, our children learn social awareness by replenishing supplies, cleaning up after themselves, and respecting others using their same environment.
Watching the careful, isolated movements of their guide, your child will employ their natural tendencies toward mimicking. As they practice and correct their movements, they will create habits around everyday tasks for a successful life in the world around them. They will walk forward with confidence into every other area of learning.
The materials available to your child, and more importantly, your child’s hidden capacity to unlock them, will serve your child in every overlapping area of their development, including:
As Your Child Learns to Care For Their Needs, They Will Be Receptive to Every Other Area of Learning
Practical Life
Our children understand and remember knowledge they unlock with their own hands. Rather than explaining an answer to them, we can carefully guide them to a conclusion through their exploration. The materials in the Children’s House engage all of your child’s senses because this is how they want to learn. This interactive approach to unlocking knowledge is an efficient and effective means to building your child’s intelligence.
As your child grasps a small block, their fingers will adjust to managing the dimensions of the material. As they grab a larger block, their mind will create new mental pathways to determine the correct hand position to hold this new material size. Spending time with the materials and adjusting their approach to each resource, your child’s mind will continuously develop a foundation of intelligence.
Your Child Will Build Intelligence by Engaging All Their Senses
Sensorial
- Naming and describing objects
- Questioning words and analyzing their sounds and meanings
- Matching phonetic sounds with their corresponding letters
- Tracing the shapes of letters and developing necessary movements to write by hand
- Understanding the function of words by means of activity
If you have ever witnessed the first time a child reads on their own, you understand the awe of that experience. When achieved organically by our children, reading is nothing short of watching a miracle. This is because our children’s minds are wired to read. They gravitate toward language because they want to understand and be understood.
Your child has the ability to acquire unlimited vocabulary. Their brain is uniquely capable of absorbing and holding onto information. Maria Montessori once explained, “Childhood constructs with what it finds.” Your child’s ability to construct themselves depends on the materials provided. Before the age of three, a child can learn more than 1,500 words if they hear double that amount. Contrast this to a child from an educationally deprived home who might only hear 100 words before age three. Their vocabulary may only grow to 100-200 words during that time. Maria Montessori went on to say, “if the material is poor, the construction is poor.” In the Children’s Home, we enrich your child’s vocabulary.
In the Children's House, we invite your child to exercise this capability by providing them specific names for what they’re experiencing through each of their senses. For example, rather than only introducing your child to a flower, we create a deeper connection by giving them the names of geranium, daisy, or lily. In the practice of observing and naming things, your child learns to identify and respect subtle differences.
Our Al Manara Children's House is English Arabic Montessori Bilingual. An AMI trained Montessori Arabic Teacher works in partnership with our Lead Teacher to implement a model Montessori Bilingual Programme and introduce the Montessori materials and presentations in Arabic. In addition to English and Arabic, an AMI trained Montessori French Teacher works alongside. As a result, children will benefit from a strong language foundation in English, Arabic, and French during this critical developmental period when they effortlessly absorb language and their surroundings.
Through their Practical Life and Sensorial activities your child will naturally explode into reading and writing. Practicing with the language materials in their prepared environment, and with the careful help of their guide, your child will discover components of language, including:
Watch the Miracle of Your Child Learning to Read and Write on Their Own
Language
Every skill and area of knowledge your child has unlocked has prepared them to succeed in mathematics. At this point, they are confident in their ability to solve a problem, and they are excited to increase their intelligence. They believe they can break a problem down to its most basic components and rebuild it to find the answer. However, they do not want to do this on a piece of paper. Instead, they want to engage their hands and develop their understanding through tangible activities. They want math to be a game.
In Practical Life, they poured beans from one jug to another and practiced measurements. In Sensorial activities, they realized how powerful their senses are at delivering an answer to them by judging, sorting, and classifying information. Finally, through gaining confidence and discovering a larger world through language, they arrive at mathematics with a broader vocabulary.
Your child is ready to explore mathematical operations, which they perceive as games, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, through physical materials that communicate to their whole being. These resources enliven your child’s abilities to approach abstract problems. Your child will naturally progress toward more complex problem solving as they familiarize themselves with mathematical organization and structure. More importantly, they will remember what they have learned because they arrived at the knowledge through playful discovery.
Anchor Mathematical Skills in Your Child’s Mind Through Hands-on Experience and Practical Application
Mathematics
- The World as a Whole
- The World of Animals
- The World of Plants
- The World of Music
- The World of Art
- The World of Science
How we view the world around us determines the trajectory of our lives. We can set our children on a path toward a successful, meaningful, and joyous life by helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world they live in and the people around them. The Montessori approach strips artificiality from your child’s environment. It engages them in activities representing the real world they are growing up in.
Connecting with nature, children realize their inner strength. Nature communicates resilience and restoration. Your child will observe and understand life cycles and the tenacity of living things. The beauty of landscapes, animals, and plants will develop a firm foundation of joy, peace, and contentment. Fascinated by an ant carrying a crumb of food three times its size or enthralled by the melodies of a bird’s song, your child will practice asking questions of their environment. As they do, they will embark on a quest to understand every beautiful thing around them.
Knowledge of the natural world always leads to sentiments of tenderness and care. Your child will tap into a deep sense of purpose as they learn to nurture their environment. Sowing seeds into the soil, setting food out for the birds, or harvesting produce they grew with their own hands, your child will embrace the importance of stewardship.
Reengaging with nature is only one area of cultural exploration given to your child at Revere. Through an organic overlapping of experiences, they will gain a holistic understanding of their culture, including:
Provide Your Child a Holistic Understanding of the World Around Them
Culture
“It is more than just a school that cultivates responsible little human beings. It is a sanctuary of thoughtfulness. Highly qualified educators who truly invest in your child and you as an individual. It is exactly what Dubai needs, precision and humanity meeting one another.”
