Sprouting Minds Montessori Preschool is an  early childhood education center located in Lakeridge in the northwest end of the city, just off Rochdale BLVD. Sprouting Minds focuses on the Montessori approach, where children are able to focus on their interests using real life materials and the teacher is a guide to the students, rather than facilitator. Here at Sprouting Minds, we encompass practical life, sensory learning, and beginning language and math skills to allow your child to be not only better prepared for Kindergarten and elementary school, but also life. Following the Montessori approach, we also have a huge emphasis on nature and focus on care of the environment. Our school also has other areas for play, art, music, circle time. See our schedule and calendar page to see an overview of our daily work.

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Practical Life: Within the practical life portion of our Montessori preschool, your child will have the opportunity to become a master is tying laces, care for self, preparing snacks, doing up zippers, etc. This area focuses on enabling children to become more independent in school and at home. By practicing these practical life skills your son/daughter's confidence will improve and they will excel in other areas of learning.

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Sensory Learning: This involves students learning with their senses, activities include identifying smells, textures, sounds, symbols, and tastes. By using their senses, they will be able to associate them with specific items and expand their minds and knowledge.

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Language Skills: Students will work on pre-reading and pre-writing skills. Montessori methods work on giving background knowledge in order to make the process of reading and writing easier. Students will work with letter recognition, letter sounds, and building simple key words. 

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Mathematic Skills: Students will again work with pre-math skills, similar to our Language Area. Students will work on recognizing numbers, values, units of measurement, working with number families etc.  
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