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Montessori and Music Center
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1200 S. Lake St.
Mundelein, IL 60060
Contact: Val Gelfand
Phone Number: 847-566-7778
Toll Free:
Fax Number: 847-278-0432
Homepage: http://www.mmdaycenter.com
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Montessori and Music Center was established in 2001 in Vernon Hills as the first Montessori school with a music curriculum. Due to the demand of the community, we have created a brand new facility in Mundelein that offers INFANT/TODDLER, PRESCHOOL, KINDERGARTEN AND AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS.
OUR MAIN OBJECTIVE is to provide a carefully planned, stimulating environment which will help children develop the foundational habts, attitudes, skills and ideas, that are essential for a LIFETIME or creative thinking and learning.
OUR GOAL "Learn with Joy" is achieved by offering children self-directed material that help them understand concept.
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Other Information |
Type of Daycare: Child Care Center
Year Opened:
Capacity: 160
License Info: State licensed: #489352-1
Ages: 6 wks-12 years old
Hours: 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Openings: Please call, email or visit our website.
Fees: Please call, email or visit our website.
Meals Provided: Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.
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Services Provided |
 Infant through 12 years.
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Activities |
Infant Toddler Program emphasizes the importance of socializing and experiencing life in the wider community. Children ages 6 weeks to three years old continue to explore, discover, manipulate and absorb within a safe, caring, beautiful environment, where they will learn skills for life.
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Preschool Kindergarten Programs set up in the environment that plays a vital role in the developments of the child in five ways intellectual, physical, emotional, social and creative. Activities are set up in these areas to help learn from each other, building a solid foundation in preparation for elementary.
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After School Program design for children 6 to 12 years old. Children are exposed to many activities Extensions and variations of Montessori material, Music, Arts, Gymnastics, Marital Arts, Chess and more. For your convenience transportation from local Public Schools is available.
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The Montessori and Music Center Curriculum and Program Overview:
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Practical Life: Practical Life offers our student’s exercises in daily living that serve as a foundation for their development. These exercises continue throughout the Elementary program. This area enhances the development of order, concentration, coordination and independence. Children take initiative in caring for themselves and the environment. Gross and fine motor skills are promoted to prepare them for future academic work. The students assume responsibility for specific jobs important in the classroom community.
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Sensorial: The purpose of the Sensorial area is to increase children’s’ awareness and ability to classify their work through their five senses. The child’s first introductions to mathematics are through materials that involve dimension, weight, sequence, quantity, gradation, serration and measurement. These attractive materials increase children’s ability to categorize their environment according to their sensory input.
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Language Arts In the Primary program, the children focus on enrichment of oral language, development of perceptual skill, development of fine motor skills and direct preparation for reading and writing. The purpose of the Elementary language program is to create students who are successful readers, writers, listeners and seekers. Individualized instruction is offered in phonics, grammar, reading analysis, word study, creative writing, handwriting, spelling, drama, public speaking and poetry and research skills.
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Mathematics: The Montessori materials promote the self-discovery of mathematical concepts. With the didactic materials children are introduced to; the decimal system, static and dynamic operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, graphing, time and measurement. The study of the fundamentals of algebra and geometry enhance the abstraction of complicated relationships: area and volume, squares and square roots and dimensions. The goal of each student is an intuitive understanding of numbers and how they can be used and adapted in the everyday world.
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Cultural education in the Montessori classroom includes the study of geography, history and an appreciation and awareness of other cultures. Primary students begin their journey toward understanding the physical aspects of the earth: continents, land, air and water while working to identify countries, states and capitals in depth. This knowledge includes the exploration of different cultures, their people, animals, clothing, food, physical geography and holidays. Elementary students expand their knowledge of countries and continents by immersing themselves in independent research into their own personal cultural background as well, as investigating a specific country’s economic structure, government, population and trades.
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Science Primary students begin studying physical and natural sciences by classifying living and non-living materials. The study of physical and natural sciences is followed by activities in botany and zoology. At the elementary level, each science discipline (geology, botany, zoology, chemistry and physics) is presented in a broad sense and is followed by subsequent elaboration and detail. Activities in science are aimed to assist student in combining scientific, personal and social elements into a working model of efficiency and cooperation.
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Music: The classical music, animal sounds and childhood melodies that float throughout MONTESSORI AND MUSIC CENTER are a major part of our total child approach. Research indicates that music stimulates brain development and helps form powerful life-long patterns.
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At Montessori and Music Center we believe that each child can be taught to play the instrument, to sing with the correct breathing and tone production.
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Musical rhythms are taught first by having the teacher play the rhythm. The children move as the rhythm suggests. The teacher doesn't tell the children how to move, but allows them to feel the rhythm for themselves. When they listen, the repetition of a dotted quarter note followed by an eighth note will feel like skipping or galloping to them. They may follow a leader as they move, each child taking a turn as leader, allowing them to experience other children's interpretations of the music. Later notation and musical instruments are introduced. Some students get their first taste of music performance. The children share their joy of music learning in our winter/spring/summer recitals.
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In MONTESSORI AND MUSIC CENTER Children cultivate (an appreciation of music) deep love for music. Music has been linked to improved learning skills in mathematics, reading and second language. Play-based musical experience as singing of folk and classical songs in different languages, stories about composers and their music, explosion to musical instruments. These experiences provide moving listening. All our music activities alert and as a stimulus for increasing memory.
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Additional Info |
CPR & First Aid.
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USDA Food Program.
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CDA
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