Escuela Hispana Montessori, Inc.

Our teachers provide meaningful opportunities to help flourish the child’s development. Pretend play, housekeeping, reading and writing, math concepts, science, technology, art expressions, outdoor play, and music and movement will provide your child with rich learning experiences to build up confidence and sense of belonging. Our daily schedule favors every child with opportunities to shape, discover, and learn new concepts through hands-on experiences. Our school offers school readiness, early literacy focused program, innovative evidence based curriculum, grounded family and community partnership which provides a rich learning environment and a holistic project based approach to learning.

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STEAM Room 

(Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics)

Teachers encourage active, often hands-on experiences to build understanding and vocabulary, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and reflection. We promote inquiry experiences by creating opportunities for children to learn about the world through STEAM lenses and by asking high-quality, open-ended questions. Children are provided with opportunities to approach problems in new and creative ways.

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Gardening

          Escuela Hispana Montessori believes that children can learn and develop from nature. For this reason, we created a gardening space for our community. We believe in enhancing in the creativity inside and outside the class. In New York City, it is a rarity and a commodity to have such a large outdoor playground with plenty of space. Fun EHM has the space and equipment /material to bring learning to the outdoor environment. Our children and teachers will be creating apple orchards, pumpkin patches, and many more exciting experiences to come.  We will be following the health and safety practices outside the playgrounds.  Children will learn about responsibility when it comes to taking care of a plant, build self-confidence, cause and effect, explore texture, teamwork, math concepts, and creativity. 

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Sensory and Occupational Room

The objective for creating a welcoming sensory room with developmentally appropriate materials was to build children's language development, cognitive growth, motor skills, problem-solving skills, and social interaction. In addition, we believe that children will develop and enhance memory functioning, and help reduce anxiety or frustration.

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Physical Development:

Fine and Gross Motor Room

Our children will be provided with fine motor skill activities that will involve manual dexterity and often require coordinating movements of the hands and fingers with the eyes. Children will discover and learn how to stack a block tower, turn doorknobs, wash hands independently, rip and unzip large zippers, manipulate clay or play dough, cut a piece of paper, draw a circle, fasten and unfasten buttons, get dressed without help, use a fork correctly, cut out a circle, grasp a pencil and/or crayon, and tie shoelaces. Our children will build their gross motor skills that involves large muscle groups. They will discover and learn how to kick, jump, gallop, throw or catch a ball, walk up the stairs by alternating feet, ride a tricycle using pedals, run without falling, throw a ball, and catch a ball.

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Three State of the Art Playgrounds

Since Escuela Hispana Montessori believes in children growing, developing and bonding outside of the classroom, we have provided a variety of activities available for all types of interests.

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Family/Isolation Room

Children that are sick will have a comfortable space while he or she waits for the parent or guardian to arrive.

 

Literacy Focused Program

Our teachers surround children in a language rich environment with lots of attention, interaction, and engaging things to see and do which is essential to literacy development.

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Developmentally Appropriate Practices

At Escuela Hispana Montessori, teachers support excellence in early childhood education through decision-making based on knowledge about each child and an awareness of the principles of child growth as well as effective early learning practices.

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Innovative Evidence Based Curriculum

Our teachers identify, assess, and implement teaching strategies that are supported by research to help professionals in with inquiries, findings, applications, and evaluations of teachings practices.

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Family and Community Partnership

We, as a community, strongly believe in a shared responsibility to engage families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and they actively support their children’s development.

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Provide a Rich Learning Environment

Teachers use the learning classroom environment to provide children with specific, concrete information for them about what is expected and valued, include meaningful materials and equipment, and they support and extend curriculum and instruction. In addition, our teachers build a sense of community and create a welcoming climate. They attend to the health and safety of children as well as respond to the way children learn and develop across the domains of learning.

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Cultural Appreciation

We, at Escuela Hispana Montessori, believe in the importance of promoting quality early learning environments for children that are culturally and developmentally appropriate.  Our Teachers engage children in culturally responsive experiences to help promote self-confidence and skills, boost awareness, appreciation and inclusion of diverse beliefs and cultures.