Our Purpose
The goal of Country Day Montessori is to instill in students a love of learning and the traditional Montessori skills of valuing peace, respect for others, and pride individual differences. CDM children leave with a love for learning!
Students gain:
These qualities, abilities, and attitudes remain with our children as they continue their learning into adulthood. Whether CDM students enter the public education system, private schooling, or the Montessori System, the foundations learned at CDM successfully prepare them for their future learning environments.
Students gain:
- Critical thinking and decision making skills
- Self-confidence
- A positive attitude towards learning
- Understanding that mistakes are learning opportunities
- Logic and reasoning skills
- Listening and following directions
- Hand-eye coordination
- Social skills that encourage interaction with others
- Initiative and responsibility
- An understanding of cultural diversity with emphasis on foreign language
- A sense of community and belonging
- Conflict resolution
These qualities, abilities, and attitudes remain with our children as they continue their learning into adulthood. Whether CDM students enter the public education system, private schooling, or the Montessori System, the foundations learned at CDM successfully prepare them for their future learning environments.
If you believe that:
Then CDM could be the right place for you and your child - we welcome you to come and visit.
- Learning should be a happy, joyous experience
- Children want to learn
- Each child grows physically and mentally at their own pace
- A spirit of cooperation rather than competition is the best atmosphere for learning
- Children should be taught to respect the rights of others
- Success builds confidence
- Parents play an integral role in their child's education
- Needs and interest vary from child to child
- Children should be treated with respect
- Education is not acquired by listening to the words but by experiences in which the child acts on his/her environment
- The most important years are not the years of university study but the first ones - the formative years- when the child's mental life is being developed
- Most children have more potential than they are encouraged to develop
- Children learn best in an environment of love, security, understanding, and consistency
- A school is a building with 4 walls and the future inside...
Then CDM could be the right place for you and your child - we welcome you to come and visit.