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PROGRAMS
All students at the Children’s
House are enrolled five days per week. We offer both full
and part time enrollment
options and before and after school programs. 
- Full time: 8:30-3:30
- Part time: 8:30-11:30 3 days/week
and 8:30-3:30 2 days/week.
- Extra afternoons
may be added for an additional fee.
- Early Care: 7:30-8:30 available by
the day, week or month for an additional fee
- Extended Care: 3:30-5:30
available by the day, week or month for an additional fee
- Summer Camp:
available for students currently enrolled or who
will be enrolling in the fall and who are at least three years old
by June 1.
Camp is open 4 weeks in June and July. Campers may
enroll for any number of weeks desired, either full time or part time.
The Children’s
House welcomes students of any race, color, religion, national
or ethnic origin. It does not discriminate on the basis of race,
color, religion, national or ethnic origin in administration
of its educational policies and other school administered programs.
CURRICULUM
Our curriculum is
based on the philosophy and educational teachings of Maria Montesssori.
At The heart of this approach are the beliefs that:
- children are unique
learners
- children will best reach their potential by having the
freedom to interact in a classroom especially prepared for exploring
concrete
materials,
under the careful guidance of a specially trained teacher.
At the Children’s
House our classrooms are designed to facilitate learning in a three
year program with children remaining in the same
mixed age classroom from age three through the kindergarten year. The school is licensed by the Tennessee Department of Education as a child care center and as a state approved Kindergarten. Tennessee Department of Education standards are met in our daily classroom activities.
The
Children’s House is affiliated with the American Montessori
Society (AMS)
The American Montessori Society is committed to promoting quality Montessori
education based on these key concepts (copied here from the AMS website):
- The
aim of Montessori education is to foster competent, responsible,
adaptive citizens who are lifelong learners and problem solvers.
- Learning occurs
in an inquiring, cooperative, nurturing atmosphere. Students increase
their own knowledge through self- and teacher-initiated experiences.
- Learning takes place through the senses. Students learn
by manipulating materials and interacting with others. These meaningful
experiences
are precursors to the abstract understanding of ideas.
- The individual is considered
as a whole. The physical, emotional, social, aesthetic, spiritual,
and cognitive needs and interests are inseparable
and equally important.
- Respect and caring attitudes for oneself, others,
the environment, and all life are necessary.
A Montessori classroom must have these basic characteristics:
- Teachers
educated in the Montessori philosophy and methodology appropriate
to the age level they are teaching, who have the ability
and dedication
to put the key concepts into practice.
- A partnership with the family.
The family is considered an integral part of the individual's total
development.
- A multi-aged, multi-graded, heterogeneous group of students.
- A diverse set of Montessori materials, activities, and
experiences, which are designed to foster physical, intellectual,
creative and social
independence.
- A schedule that allows large blocks of uninterrupted time
to problem solve, to see the interdisciplinary connections of knowledge,
and
to create new ideas.
- A classroom atmosphere that encourages social interaction
for cooperative learning, peer teaching, and emotional development.
An exemplary art program is a component of the curriculum at the Children’s House. Early art education is valued as a highly effective method in helping children achieve a better understanding of themselves and their world. Children are offered many opportunities to create art, to look at and talk about art and to become aware of art in their everyday lives. Children’s canvases and framed paintings are displayed in galleries throughout the building.
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