Reedy Creek Child Care
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Why Choose Reedy Creek Montessori Child Care?
Child Care encompasses more than children playing games and group activities all day.
Owner MaryAnne Hossack and her Reedy Creek and Mudgeeraba Montessori Child Care team have 16 years experience in Montessori Child Care. Yes, Montessori is different - that's why we make a real difference to your child and her learning journey.
Everything we do has a purpose - from developing muscles in little fingers to sequencing numbers, from sorting colours to threading to match a pattern - these are concrete activities to teach abstract maths.
The difference is the activities are self correcting giving the child the power to learn from mistakes without an adult disturbing the learning, the activities deliver real benefits and the long term benefits of knowing how to do it for herself.
We have the ability to help your child tap into their potential and build their skills and intelligence.
Montessori teaches a child how to learn and so much more. We have been rated "Exceeding" by the Australian Government.
Toddler 15 months 2 years
2 years to 3 years
Kindy 4 years to school age
The Best Child Care
To provide High Quality Service and Care by people who are passionate about children's Montessori Education and their future.
To foster a love of learning and an embracing of curiosity, by encouraging the self-motivation and self-discipline that will lead to a life-long pursuit of knowledge.
To spark in our children children's imagination, wonder, humor and joy, and inspiring children to be excited and eager to come to school every day.
To insist upon on continued excellence in teaching.
Life Long Learning Skills
The aim is to engender independence, concentration, repetition, confidence, and build a bridge from home to school.
The sensorial equipment including the pink tower, red rods, bells, colour tablets are aimed at educating and refining of all senses, indirect preparation for later work.
- Language area including the sandpaper letters, moveable alphabet. Mathematics area include the number rods, golden beads. Cultural areas include the puzzle maps of the world, art, history and biology.
Preparing School Readiness
We also have placement in our advanced and comprehensive school readiness program. In addition to our Montessori program, we provide a developmentally appropriate curriculum which prepares each child emotionally, socially, and cognitively for their first year of school.
Our children are exposed to various educational objectives therefore making the transition to big school successful. Not only are our children prepared for their first year of school, they will most likely excel at their experience.
Local Family Values
I embraced the Montessori Method because I saw the long term benefits for our children. I trained my Mudgeeraba & Reedy Creek Child Care Centre Montessori team to my personal expectations and now we deliver exceptional child care and make it available to you!
We have been providing the very best to Gold Coast families since 2006 by honest, respectable and reliable education, learning and love.
Mary-Anne Hossack
1. Focuses on Key Developmental Stages
A Montessori curriculum focuses on key developmental milestones in children between the ages of three and five-years-old. Younger children focus on honing large muscle and language skills. Four-year-olds work on fine motor skills and completing everyday activities, such as cooking and arts and crafts. Older preschoolers broaden their learning experience to their communities, through trips and special events.
2. Encourages Cooperative Play
Because the teacher does not “run” the classroom, students guide the activities they do throughout the day. This encourages children to share and work cooperatively to explore the various stations in the Montessori classroom. Children in Montessori classrooms, by the very nature of the environment, learn to respect one another and build a sense of community.
3. Learning Is Child-Centered
Montessori preschool students enjoy a classroom and curriculum designed around their specific needs and abilities that allows them to explore and learn at their own pace and on their own terms. Everything in the classroom is within reach of the child, and furniture is sized for children to sit comfortably. In addition, older children in the class work with the younger ones, so mentoring comes as much from peers as it does from the adult teachers in the classroom.
4. Children Naturally Learn Self-Discipline
While the Montessori Method allows children to choose the activities they want to work on each day, and how long they will work at a specific task, there are specific “ground rules” for the class that are consistently enforced by the teacher and other students. This environment naturally teaches children self-discipline, and it refines important skills like concentration, self-control and motivation.
5. Classroom Environment Teaches Order
All objects and activities have precise locations on the shelves of a Montessori classroom. When children are finished with an activity, they place items back into their appropriate places. This sense of order helps facilitate the learning process, teaches self-discipline, and caters to a young child’s innate need for an orderly environment. When children work and play in an area that is neat and predictable, they can unleash their creativity and focus fully on the learning process.
6. Teachers Facilitate the Learning Experience
Teachers in the Montessori classroom are “guides” that are there to facilitate the learning experience, rather than determine what it will look like. Teachers take the lead from the children in the classroom, ensure the ground rules are followed, and encourage students to perform tasks at their own pace. However, teachers do not determine the pace of the classroom – that is strictly up to individual students, as teachers strive to remain as unobtrusive as possible.
7. Learning Method Inspires Creativity
Since children are allowed to choose their activities and work at them on their own terms, creativity in the classroom is encouraged. Children work at tasks for the joy of the work, rather than the end result, which allows them to focus more on process than result – a natural path to creativity. Exposure to a wide variety of cultures also encourages children to broaden their thinking about the world and address those concepts in a variety of ways.
8. May be More Effective in Developing Certain Skills
Research conducted by Dr. Angeline Lillard, a professor of psychology from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, examined the abilities of children who have been taught in a Montessori school. Published in 2006 in the journal Science, the research studied Montessori students in Wisconsin and found that five-year-olds in Montessori classrooms had higher math and reading skills than their counterparts in public schools. In addition, the study compared 12-year-old Montessori and non-Montessori students. While math and reading skills appeared to be more on par with this age group, social development appeared to be higher in Montessori students by this age.
9. System is Highly Individualized to Each Student
Students in the Montessori program are allowed to explore activities and concepts at their own pace. This naturally encourages children to try more challenging areas, which accelerates their learning experience. Learning occurs at a comfortable pace for each student, rather than inflicting the same rate on every student in a classroom.
10. Curriculum Focused on Hands-On Learning
One of the greatest benefits of the Montessori Method, particularly during the early learning experience, is the focus on hands-on learning. The emphasis is on concrete, rather than abstract learning, as students work on activities that teach language, math, culture and practical life lessons. Teachers encourage students to concentrate on tasks, and they discourage students from interrupting one another, allowing students to focus on activities until they are properly mastered.
There are many potential benefits of a Montessori preschool for children just starting out in the education process. These important early years prepare a student for the learning experience that is to come, whether they continue with the Montessori Method or move to a public classroom environment in the future.
Grace Chen is the lead editor and writer for Public School Review. From teaching at-risk public middle school students to lecturing for the Haas School of Business and FIDM, Grace is passionate about the state of education.