Montessori School Admission Process

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• What Is a Montessori School?
• What comes to your mind when you think of a
  typical classroom, probably the first thing that
  comes to your mind is desks and chairs occupied
  by children, and the children are concentrating
  on a teacher explaining at the blackboard. But,
  do you know that Montessori classrooms look
  completely different than normal classrooms.
  There you will find students of age group 2 to 6
  years old engaged in different activities
  according to their interests, with the teacher
  observing, sometimes aiding a child in his or her
  endeavor.
• What is a Montessori School?
• The most basic thing is, Montessori education
  focuses on child-centric learning. In Montessori
  education, students are encouraged to be the
  leaders of their own study, finding the
  activities that make the student's study
  interesting, with the teacher serving as a guide
  to their learning.
• Much of the Montessori experience is hands-on. In
  any Montessori classroom, you may find a group of
  children working on a puzzle while another group
  undertakes a days-long art project, while another
  child reads quietly by themselves. Children are
  encouraged to go at their own pace, work
  collaboratively and individually, and spend time
  working on projects they enjoy.
• The Montessori approach considers the development
  of the whole child
• physical, social, emotional, cognitive.
• What should Look for in a Montessori school?
• The students have their own pace and interest to
  study. Every child has their own way to make
  themselves busy. Following are the things you
  should look for in a Montessori school.
• Mixed-ages.
• Real Montessori schools have children of
  different ages in the same classroom, though
  students tend to all be 2 years to 6 years old.
  The idea here is that children learn at
  different paces in different areas Where one
  child might learn to read at 4 years old, another
  might explode into reading at late 5. Why push
  one or hold another back based on some average at
  which children are supposed to read? Children
  also tend to learn a lot from more mature peers,
  which is not possible in single-age classrooms.
• Choose their Work
• Real Montessori schools will have a significant
  chunk of time in the day dedicated to children
  working on materials of their choosing, This is
  the freedom part of the equation, but its
  considered within limits because the activities
  are chosen from structured options that the
  teacher purposefully selects beforehand.
• For children, this work period is usually
  two hours. For 2-6 year-olds, its usually about
  three hours. This can seem unbelievable to
  teachers and

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parents who havent been in a Montessori
environment, as in No way my child would focus
for that long! But the reality is that if
children are given work to do that is meaningful
and engaging, from washing a table at 3 years old
to doing multiplication at 5 years old and if
they are allowed to choose to do that work of
their own volition then they have impressive
sustained focus. Set up in 2005, Floretz
Academy is one of the best and oldest
Montessori Schools in South East Bangalore.
Floretz has 2 Schools one in HSR Layout
and the other in Kasavanahalli, off
Sarjapur Road. Both the schools are
registered with the Government of
Karnataka and are accredited and recognized
by the Indian Montessori Centre. The School
offers Montessori education for children from the
age group of 2-6 years and post-school care
and Daycare center for children from the age
group of 2-12 years. There are various
programs after school including IOTA
Accelerated Math Program (1st to 8th
Standards), Music (Carnatic vocals), Dance
(Bharatanatyam, Odissi, and Contemporary),
Art Craft, and Karate classes.