Seven Senses, Indiranagar

Overview

Seven Senses Montessori House of Children follows the Montessori method of early childhood education. The school claims to provide a true Montessori experience with high quality learning materials and infrastructure. The curriculum is child centric and all teaching-learning activities are focused stimulating the child’s inherent curiosity and interests.

The objective of Seven Senses is “to help children become independent, self reliant, self aware, develop a sense of self worth, discover their unique identity and build academic excellence in a natural manner”.

Campus

The school’s indoor campus offers a lot of natural light and spacious well-ventilated classrooms. The classrooms do not have desks and chairs unlike most preschools and children work on mats with the Montessori material. The outdoor play area comprises of sand pit, swings, slides, ball pool, see saw etc.

Academics

Infant Community Program

Age group: 1.6 years to 2.6 years

The program is designed to help children develop independence, social awareness, motor skills and language. Activities are offered in the areas of language enrichment, daily life exercises, hand eye coordination, art and visual recognition through song, and dance. Toddlers engage in a variety of large muscle activities which offer them opportunities to jump, climb, balance, crawl, and skip. However, it is tempered by two important limits that will be beneficial for a lifetime — respect for others and respect for the environment.

Pre primary program

Age group: 2.6 years to 6 years

In this program children are free to choose their own work and to watch other children’s work. A variety of specially designed learning materials and activities are arranged on open shelves in specific and yet integrated areas of the environment – such as practical life, sensorial, language, mathematics, science, music, art, physical education and culture.

Practical Life – These activities provide the link between the home and school. The aim is to make the child independent and confident, enhance concentration and co-ordination sequencing skills and help develop independence. Examples of activities include:

Care of the environment such as caring for plants and performing household tasks.

Care of the self – using clothes fasteners, washing hands, simple food preparation etc

Social or grace and courtesy lessons

Sensorial – Montessori material is used to help children refine their senses and become perceptive to their surroundings. Activities include matching and grading using materials that isolate the senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, kinaesthesia and smell.

Language – Materials are used to increase vocabulary and explore both written and aural/oral language. Children are introduced to letters using the senses of touch, sight and hearing. They progress using concrete materials to compose their own written works and to read the work of others.

Mathematics – Mathematical concepts are introduced using Montessori concrete materials. Children are introduced to mathematics with geometric shapes and triangles. Through the sensory work children understand geometry and arithmetic concepts.