Newborn Montessori

Newborn Montessori is a home based preschool designed to meet the learning interests of infants and toddlers. Newborn Montessori operates with specially designed Montessori materials and appropriately sized furnishings within the calm, relaxed atmosphere of a home.  Newborn Montessori strives to provide a stimulating environment that guides each child through their successive levels of development.

Hours of Operation (Closed Until Further Notice)
Program hours are 9:00am to 12:00pm Monday through Friday.

Program
Given a loving and nurturing environment, infants learn faster than at any other time in their lives. Dr. Montessori believed that infants not only have the ability to absorb knowledge, but also the capability to teach themselves. Newborn Montessori provides carefully chosen materials for each child. This fosters the child’s natural ability to explore and learn independently. Through the use of these materials, teacher directed programming, and peer interactions, this program has many great benefits. Some of these benefits include:

-problem solving
-learning to follow direction
-expanding concentration and memory
-sparking curiosity
-promoting self confidence
-developing self correction skills
-developing motor control
-developing eye hand coordination and manual dexterity
-developing a sense of cause and effect
-developing perseverance
-discovering by trial and error
-developing patience, the ability to wait one’s turn, and to share

Newborn Montessori also introduces a number of concepts that lay the basis for practical life skills and assist in everyday living.

Director
A child is learning directly and indirectly all day long.  The Montessori director not only introduces task specific materials, but is deliberate in her movements throughout the day.  She acts as consciously as possible in order to send the appropriate messages.

In 1998, I started my career in childcare by accepting a job supervising school aged children in a small daycare center. In 2002, I graduated from Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology with my Early Childhood Education diploma. My education also includes an Infant, Toddler, and Twos Montessori Teaching Diploma from the North American Montessori Center, first aid, CPR “C”, and numerous child related workshops.

My work experience within the childcare industry includes, but is not limited to, working with teen mothers and their infants at Balfour Collegiate (Regina), interacting with seniors and providing care for toddlers and preschoolers at Sherbrooke Community Center, volunteer childcare for the YWCA women’s shelter, and toddler program director at Allegro Montessori.  In September of 2009, I opened my doors to the first Montessori based infant preschool in Saskatoon.