What do we Promote?
Little Explorers Montessori Institute (LEMI) promotes an individual education in agreement with the pace and necessity of each student and reveals the child as a lover of work chosen spontaneously, which ends with profound happiness.
Our Pedagogical Foundations are based on encouraging:
-Self-sufficiency
-Independence
-Initiative
-Ability to choose
-Development of willpower and self-discipline
We achieve a structured environment through:
Cleanliness, order, and harmony.
Availability of materials, always at the reach of the children.
Materials designed to satisfy the needs of the children.
Lessons that are derived from sensory experience.
Promoting movement and constant activity.
Promoting independence and freedom.
Facilitating motor, sensory, social, intellectual, and emotional development.
Testimonial
We're so thrilled to have found LEMI Institute for our daughter. Not only is it an incredibly supportive environment for working parents, with flexible daycare options, the teachers are also so caring and patient with the children. I have wonderful peace of mind knowing my daughter is happy to be going to school in the morning, and it is lovely to see her full of chat and stories when I pick her up after class.
—Monica Y.
Mission
Our mission at the Little Explorers Montessori Institute is to develop boys and girls who are responsible, excited, free, and safe, capable of living and committing themselves as people within our actual reality, with the necessary tools for doing their life projects and getting it done, with a dimension of the fighting spirit.
Vision
Our vision at the Little Explorers Montessori Institute is to be the best preschool institute, with standards of excellence, oriented to the integral education of the individual in order to contribute to the bettering of their surroundings within their families and society, where they will develop and live. It is an honor that the parents trust us with their little ones at the most important and crucial stage, where the foundation for the child´s personality is established, as said by Maria Montessori.
Philosophy
Education is not what the teacher gives. Education is a natural process brought about spontaneously by the individual and acquired, not by listening to words, but by environmental experiences. The Montessori environment gives each child the ease with which they develop all of their psychic, physical, and intellectual potential. By means of scientific materials, the child will develop his or her concentration, movement coordination, becoming self-sufficient, and will develop a respect for working in addition to building his or her personality, to accepting his or her mistakes, to arriving at self-control. It also helps them to develop their feelings and the acquisition of cultural knowledge.
Our starting point will be the demonstration of aptitudes and personality of each child, since he or she is our teacher. It is through observation that we are going to realize the individual needs of each child in order to be able to guide them individually. The environment proposes giving the child a place where he or she can be independent from the adult since the urge for being independent is basic in the inner life of the child. A place where he or she finds challenges and adequate stimulation for his or her personal growth in an atmosphere of freedom, respect, and collaboration.
Our Values
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Respect
For myself and others.
For my school environment and for the planet.
Responsibility
With my thoughts, actions, choices, and decisions.
Honesty
With myself and with others.
Harmony
Through acceptance, empathy, forgiveness, and tolerance.
Humility
To learn from my experiences and from those around me.
Strength
For confronting what life brings me with a fighting spirit.
Enthusiasm
For coexisting and learning from others, communicating efficiently.
Normal Schedule
The educational schedule in the morning of the House of Children is from 8:30 – 11:30 A.M. We have a resting period after lunch for all of the students from 12:30 – 1:30, followed by a snack from 1:40 – 2:00 P.M. and afterward we continue with a working period for all the children from 2:00-4:30 P.M.
Extended School Schedule
Extended schedule- In order to meet the needs of parents who work, we offer an extended schedule from 7:00 to 8:30 A.M. and from 4:30 to 7:00 P.M. During the time after classes we offer all of the children a variety of activities from our plan of social-emotional studies like sports, art, and games. It is a time where the children can relax and learn in an unstructured way.
