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We put our daughter in a Montessori preschool for a week. She started to read some time when she was two. She's wild and smart. After a week of Montessori, she
by igetspam 5y ago
We put our daughter in a Montessori preschool for a week. She started to read some time when she was two. She's wild and smart. After a week of Montessori, she refused to go back. They focused on learning through functional tasks and kept the classroom bland (primary colors and earth tones and nothing else). She wanted to play and be outside. It wasn't going to work for her. We found a school that focused more on learning through play and focused on social/emotional development. There's nothing they're going to teach her from an education standpoint (she reads chapter books and the other kids are learning letter sounds, she counts to one thousand and the other kids are still working on getting to 20 consistently, etc) but non of the preschools we found actually can. She's having fun now though.
- scruple 5y agoI'm curious, how old is she now? I met a 3 year old recently (through my kids Montessori) who is reading chapter books and I was honestly blown away by it.
- igetspam 5y agoShe's four and a half. Her literacy and her vocabulary because of it, is mind boggling. She has read entire boxed sets of chapter books now. Watching her read is fascinating too because she hasn't been taught any rules, so she'll come across words like "scheme" and read them as "sheme" because it makes sense. We correct her, she asks what it means and she puts it in a mental data store and then uses it for other word patterns later. Now when she finds a conflict where there are two possible pronunciations, she either figures it out because she knows the word or she points at it and asks which model (my word, not hers) it is. I have no clue how she learned to do this but we've always read a lot to her (by her request) and she just figured it out.