Montessori Programs
Building the Foundation
for Lifelong Learning
Casa Dei Bambini’s Toddler Classroom consists of children ages
15 months to 3 years with 3 days or 5 days program.
Introduction
At Casa Dei Bambini, our philosophy of education is rooted in the Montessori method and in creating an early childhood learning environment where children can grow with confidence, independence, curiosity, and purpose. Our Montessori school programs are organized around carefully designed areas of learning that support the whole child—developing concentration, coordination, practical life skills, language, mathematical thinking, social development, and an understanding of the world around them. Through hands-on learning, thoughtfully prepared classrooms, and developmentally appropriate guidance, children build the foundational skills they need for preschool, kindergarten, and lifelong learning. Unlike a traditional daycare or day care setting focused primarily on supervision, our Montessori early childhood program is designed to make every part of the child’s day an opportunity for meaningful learning and growth.
Practical Life
The work of practical life is often the first work of an entering 3-year-old. This work is designed to develop the young child’s hand, transitioning the child from the palmar grasp of toddlerhood to the 3-finger grasp of the more mature hand. Practicing skills such as pouring, spooning, opening containers, folding cloths, cleaning up spills, carrying trays, and buttoning develop the child’s attention span. All of the work of practical life evokes a sense of order, an opportunity to gain independence, and to develop concentration and coordination. Later practical life lessons encourage the child to attend to lengthier and more multi-step tasks such as polishing, cloth washing and food preparation.
Sensorial
The sensorial materials support the child in organizing sensorial impressions. They give the child the opportunity to practice discriminating between quiet, louder, loudest, or small, larger, largest, or light, darker, darkest. With our senses the experience IS the learning. Because of this, these sensorial materials are considered auto-educative. Once the senses have self-trained through exposure to a wide range of impressions, the guide then offers the language for labeling these impressions. Maria Montessori called the sensorium the “key to the intellect.” The richer the child’s experience of sound, touch, vision, taste, smell, and kinesthesia then the richer the child’s vocabulary and the more discretely the mind is ordered.-
Language
Language development in the Montessori classroom grows naturally from conversation, listening, storytelling, and hands-on activities. Children are introduced to sounds, letters, vocabulary, and early writing through materials that engage both the senses and the hand. As children build confidence with spoken language, they gradually move toward reading and writing in a way that feels purposeful, connected, and appropriate to their stage of development.
Mathematics
Montessori mathematics begins with concrete materials that allow children to see, touch, and explore quantities before moving into abstract concepts. Children work with counting, number recognition, sequencing, patterns, and early operations using carefully designed materials that make mathematical relationships visible. This hands-on approach helps children develop number sense, logical thinking, concentration, and confidence with math from an early age.
Cultural Studies
Cultural studies help children begin to understand the world around them through geography, science, nature, history, art, and music. Young children explore topics such as plants, animals, landforms, cultures, seasons, and the natural environment through hands-on materials and real-world experiences. These lessons encourage curiosity, respect for others, observation, and a growing awareness of the larger world beyond the classroom.
CDB MONTESSORI
@ RIVERSTONE
20211 South University Blvd,
Missouri City , TX 77459
Phone : 281-261-CASA (2272)