Language
Language is a key part of our humanity. Through a variety of traditional Montessori stories we look at how words and language have come about and their importance to our development as a community. We also discuss how different languages are constructed and how languages help convey culture, including our own, Te Reo Maori and NZSL.
Children learn to read through a phonetic-based approach and also have independent reading activities to develop reading fluency and skills.
The study of grammar in the Montessori classroom is unique. Children study the parts of speech in detail. What work does a pronoun do and how is it related to the verb? If its place is changed in the sentence, does the meaning remain the same? Each part of speech has a distinctive, colourful symbol. Children place these symbols above the words of a sentence or story. Later, they begin to analyse the style of different writers using the grammar symbols.
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