Are you looking for a peaceful place to learn alongside your child? Where you receive personal support for your work as your child's first teacher?
Welcome to Ananda Montessori
A place where children and adults learn together
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Contact Me
To arrange a time to come visit Ananda Montessori, you can call 814.440.4237 or
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Summer Term Begins May 27
A 12 - week term where you select your own weeks!
Come join us for a summer of fun, exploration, and discovery. To begin your process of registration, first contact me and schedule a visit. Spaces are limited.
You can see the Summer calendar and tuition below.
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Ananda Montessori School Calendars
Montessori Playgroups
Benefits of Montessori Playgroups
Child
Learning alongside the parent or caregiver in a supportive environment.
Finding a second home that is consistent, loving, and built on mutual respect.
Developing trust through relationships with the facilitator and other parents.
Building interaction and ownership within a social community.
Experiencing autonomy while having the parent/caregiver as a touchstone.
Fostering natural independence focuses on the process for both the child and the adult.
Having parents/caregivers who are more receptive, observant, understanding, and educated.
Parent/Caregiver/Adult
Receiving guidance and modeling from the facilitator.
Offering support to other parents while receiving support in return.
Connecting with other parents/caregivers, sharing experiences, and forming friendships.
Creating a sense of community.
Monthly support group.
Learning through discovery and process, embracing learning in the moment with practice.
Experiencing new ways of responding and being receptive to their child.
Learning the art of observation, seeing their child and other children with fresh eyes.
Transforming the parent-child relationship by making personal changes.
Community
Parents are in the process of developing greater self-awareness, positively impacting their families, and modeling positive parenting for others.
Children receiving early loving care show independence, higher self-esteem, and a love of learning throughout their lives.
Families engaging in a holistic learning approach, like Montessori, apply their experiences at home and contribute more to the community.
Adult-Infant
Birth to walking
During this 90-minute class, activities include mobiles, rattles, a movement mat, and hand-eye experiences and other materials supporting the progression of freedom of movement in your child. You will be observing how the environment supports his/her interests and needs.
Fridays, 9:30 - 11:00 am
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Adult-Toddler
Walking to 36-months
Join your child in this two-hour class where children learn through exploration and discovery, engaging with their surroundings. Activities may include: more complex hand-eye experiences, care of self and environment, gross and fine motor movement, an exploration of art materials, and much more......
Mondays, 9:30 - 11:30 am
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Adult-Child
3 - 6 years
In this three-hour class, children direct their learning through connection with the prepared environment. Five key areas of study include Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Mathematics, and Culture. The activities increase in complexity as your child matures and grows.
Wednesdays, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm.
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Is Montessori for Babies?
Watch this video, which you can enlarge, and see infants in the Adult-Infant community at Ananda, at home, outdoors, experiecing life. This is Montessori, which is not limited to any boundaries, but is experiential.
Meeting at the easel
This meeting at the easel during Adult and Toddler class is textured with layers of experiences between and within the children.
Gathering Together
Singing and Signing
Living Montessori
“At some given moment it happens that the child becomes deeply interested in a piece of work; we see it in the expression on his face, his intense concentration, the devotion to the exercise.”
Maria Montessori, The Discovery of the Child
Freedom
Concentration
Collaboration
Community
What parents are saying
Coming to Ananda has been a blessing to our family. I am grateful for this nurturing environment for adults and children. and most of all for this space of learning and inner work for us as adults.
We all learn as a community! And the best part is that this happens in a relaxed manner where Pamela passes on her wisdom in a loving and caring way.
What happens here definitely transcends beyond its walls. I highly recommend to others to enter this beautiful world at Ananda Montessori
Having a child at Ananda Montessori has completely re-opened my vision of what children (and adults) actually need to form a successful, happy environment that allows us to thrive in our lives.
This space where he is allowed to be himself has not only helped him to grow as an individual in this setting, but has also created an environment where he feels comfortable expressing his needs and desires.
This continues to enable him to grow and thrive into a caring, empathetic, curious, explorative individual. We have seen that practicing the principles of the Montessori environment gained from Ananda and creating that environment in our household has produced incredible results.
Adult Group
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much" ~Helen Keller
Each month on the fourth Monday evening, parents, grandparents and caregivers gather together at Ananda Montessori for time with their peers. During this time we bring focus to different topics on parenting, child development, Montessori principles, observation, and much more, in a supportive environment prepared for the adults.
Each family enrolled at Ananda Montessori receives a copy of "The Montessori Baby", "The Montessori Toddler", or "The Montessori Child" book, by Simone Davies.
Other Classes
at Ananda Montessori
Music Together Classes
To view the schedule and to sign up for a class at Ananda, go here:
https://www.musictogetherwithmsmary.com/schedule.html