WAYNE — Apple Montessori Schools held a parent math seminar at their elementary school in Wayne recently. The seminar was a way for parents to see and learn about the hands-on math curriculum offered at all Apple Montessori schools, including the Macopin Road location in West Milford.
All parents who attended were able to work with the Montessori math materials which teach children the shape, space, numbers, and their relationships and attributes by the use of numbers and symbols.
The Apple Montessori curriculum studies the science of pattern and includes hands-on math manipulatives which help to teach patterns of all kinds, such as numerical patterns, abstract patterns, patterns of shape, motion and so much more. Parents were given an in-depth training on the advanced math curriculum. Apple Montessori staff members set up tables, with every hands-on material that lines the classroom's shelves. Some of the materials represented covered subjects such as whole numbers, fractions, and positive numbers. Every material is self corrective, according to the school's press release, and builds skills which lead up to the next level material. Apple Montessori's hands-on math materials have an emphasis on the fact that young children take great pleasure in all number work. When the child is ready, the absorption of math concepts through Apple's math materials and carefully prepared curriculum, is easy and natural.
All parents had a chance to experience and work with the materials that their children work with on a daily basis in all Apple Montessori classrooms.
The next parent seminar will be held later this spring at every Apple location. As part of the art enrichment curriculum, Apple invites all parents to participate in its annual Art Festival. The parents are invited to come in and work alongside their children to recreate projects that were done in the classroom throughout the year. It is one of the ways Apple Montessori uses to strengthen the vital parent-child-school connection.
Apple Montessori School students share their talents with their parents often throughout the year. Musical presentations are given at events like their annual international shows, Mother's Day tea and Father's Day ice cream socials to name a few.
For more information about Apple Montessori schools, go to www.applemontessorischools.com. For information about the West Milford location at 836 Macopin Road, call 973-208-1717.