First School Mahomet:
Where Happy Kids Love to Learn
Our holistic curriculum, under the direction of well-trained teachers, allows your child to experience the joy of learning through hands-on activities. It also ensures the development of self-esteem and provides the experiences from which children become life-long learners.
Why First School?
First School’s Montessori-based programs allow early years of development to learn in a prepared environment that does more than teach your child; they instill confidence, independent thought, and a life-long love for learning at their own pace.
HOW WE DO IT
Highest Quality Curriculum
Teaming with parents, professionals, local schools, North American Montessori Center,among others.
Amazing, Well-Trained, Certified Staff
Loyal Community Support
First School and Montessori alumni are always around to share their experiences and success stories.
THE ADVANTAGES OF FIRST SCHOOL
Happy, Well-Adjusted, Independent Children
Attentive staff assist with transitions and model self-help and problem-solving skills.
Prepared For School and Beyond
Fostering critical thinking to support healthy social, emotional, and academic abilities
Child Care and Education Collaboration
We’re in this together with family connection and home-language reinforcement
Here at First School our Nature play Center is a uniquely designed space where everyone benefits from the connection with nature. This Nature Center is designed for children of all abilities and allows for physical as well as mental development.
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Our Programs
Montessori for infants involves creating a safe and interactive environment that allows them to practice skills such as grasping, crawling, and walking. By providing age-appropriate toys and materials, teachers guide infants develop their sensory and large and small motor skills, as well as their cognitive abilities.
A Montessori classroom for toddlers safely supports a child’s drive to do things independently, developing confidence and a sense of competence. This is the time for children to explore and discover through active play. In addition, our educators give toddlers responsive, individualized attention to help build skills in:
- Sensory and Perception
- Self-help
- Language
- Physical and Motor Skills
- Social and Emotional Growth
- Music and Art
- Language
- Science
- Math
- Geography
In our classroom for 2-year-olds, children begin to do more complex multi-step work. This prepares them for our preschool class. They learn a basic sense of quantity and numbers and simple research into animals. Teachers also create station learning for many sensory and motor materials, which focus on identifying and continuing patterns.
The Montessori Pre-K program offers a unique, mixed-age classroom environment, for children approximately 3 to 5 years old. Children engage in individual learning experiences, as well as one-on-one interactions.
As children get older, they tend to see things that adults find ordinary as very interesting and special. Practical life exercises like sorting, pouring, or washing dishes absorb them completely.
We recognize this as the beginning of control and coordination of mind and body. That’s why Pre-K teachers focus lessons around tangible, hands-on experiences.
Children use concrete materials to learn math; movable alphabet letters to explore language; and cubes, cylinders and other objects to categorize, find spatial relationships, and more. Practical learning experiences explore key subjects including:
- Science and Nature
- Music and Movement
- Sensorial
- Cooking and Nutrition
- Cultural Awareness
- History
- Geography
- Language Arts
- Mathematics
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Who Is First School For?
Our classrooms provide a supportive and inclusive environment that fosters the holistic development of each child, regardless of their individual traits and preferences.
Location
1403 E Oak St
Mahomet Il. 61853
School Hours
M-F: 7:30am - 5:30pm
Weekends: Closed
Phone & Email
217-586-9990
frstschl@frontier.com
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