Philosophy

At Little Folks School, children learn through active exploration and interaction with teachers, other children, and materials in a carefully prepared environment. Small class sizes and low teacher-student ratios allow for individualized instruction focusing on each child’s strengths, needs, and interests. We focus on educating the whole child, including physical, social-emotional, and pre-academic skills. Little Folks School serves children, ages eighteen months to five years old.

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Socialization

Cognitive Development

Children develop understanding of concepts about themselves, others and the world around them through observation, interacting with people and real objects, and seeking solutions to concrete problems. Because the materials developed by Maria Montessori so aptly incorporate this approach, we make important use of these materials.

These toys help to develop the pre-academic skills necessary for later acquisition of reading, writing and math skills. In addition to this approach to cognitive development, children have the opportunity to select many of their own activities from a variety of learning areas the teacher prepares, including puzzles, games, books, manipulative toys and art materials.

Physical Development

Aesthetic Development

If you'd like to learn more:

We encourage you to read “The Right Place: Nursery School in the Twenty-first Century” - a chapter from Choosing the Right Education Path for Your Child: What are the Options? Edited by Paula J Carreiro and Eileen Shields-West written by Little Folk's First Head of School Gay Cioffi.