• Address: 7630 Windy Ridge Rd, San Diego, CA 92126 (map)
• Date Posted: 11/07/09

ENROLLING 2.5 TO 6.0 YEAR POTTY-TRAINED CHILDREN AT: WE CHARGE LOT LESS TO PRODUCE A FUTURE LEADER!


Fairsquare Private Montessori School

7630 Windy Ridge Road, San Diego CA 92126-8006
858-578-7527 fairsquare@san.rr.com
A Montessori school is an environment, which embodies the educational principles established by Dr. Maria Montessori as she consistently and scientifically observed how children develop and learn.
Dr. Maria Montessori (1870 -1952) was an Italian physician whose career was dedicated to the study of children. She discovered that the characteristics at each stage of human development are unique, and that the foundation of the whole personality is laid during the early years of life. This discovery is now universally accepted in scientific circles. Maria Montessori called the mind of the child, which in the first six years of life is different from that at any later stage of development, the Absorbent Mind.
Dr. Maria Montessori commenced the first Montessori classroom in 1907. Today there are thousands of Montessori schools around the world. "In the special environment prepared ... in our schools, the children themselves found a sentence that expresses the inner need: 'Help me to do it by myself!'" Maria Montessori, The Secret of Childhood

In a Montessori class, interactive learning occurs in an environment carefully prepared by an educator trained to work with children of that specific age group.
In a non-graded class of mixed ages the children spontaneously and independently use materials designed by Dr. Montessori. They choose their own activities and develop practical and intellectual abilities through individual discovery and exploration of language, mathematics, geography, geometry, art and music.
Mrs. Malinie Dias, a Sri Lankan educator, was trained in Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) method of teaching, runs Fair Square Private Montessori School. She followed a four-year course in Montessori Education at the prestigious training school in Sri Lanka, Good Shepherds Montessori Academy, one of the first Montessori teacher training facilities in the world, whose faculty members had the opportunity to be trained directly by Madame Maria Montessori herself. Mrs. Dias, BA (Child Psychology) provides education at her home for a limited number of children from ages 2½ to 6-year-olds in a small group setting. She has produced very successful students at Penn- Mont Academy, Altoona, PA; The Manor Montessori School, Potomac, MD; and Green Hedges School, Vienna, VA; almost all her students have excelled in their careers and have become champion professionals. The children who spent three years with Mrs. Dias are competent to join Elementary School at Second Grade.