
ABOUT MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF ANDERSON

Founder's Welcome
A child grows physically, emotionally, mentally, and most importantly, naturally. To facilitate a child’s growth, he must be in an environment that encourages exploration, ingenuity and excitement. Growth is something that is progressive but not necessarily in a neat predictable line. There are times of mountain peaks of excitement and other quieter valleys for integration. Understanding this cycle is fascinating to watch over a lifetime. A single pink cube can hold much fascination and imagination all on its own in a Montessori primary class, but at some point becomes a sequence of weights and measures and eventually a mathematical equation. Letters are initially symbols made tactile with sandpaper or assembled as a moveable alphabet to create sounds then words until a child squeals with delight: “I can read!” That same enthusiasm and sense of empowerment comes with digesting a difficult passage of Shakespeare: “I understand!” From realizing that a swing gives you flight to developing the coordination to shoot a bulls eye, we grow with confidence and assurance, and develop our innate ability to be our very best selves.
We, at Montessori, celebrate a child’s growing and create the needed environments for each stage of their development. In this hectic age, providing “sacred space” for this development to take place is critical.
Sincerely,
Karen Holt
Founder
