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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m also curious about the quiet classrooms for preschool-aged children. We only looked at one Montessori school - so that limited experience is surely not representative of all Montessori schools - but the classes we observed were weirdly quiet. The children were seemingly calm and content, but they were also mute! It was really unnerving. [/quote] My twins were in Montessori from 2013-2015. They had Montessori class for 3 hours either in the morning or afternoon. The school we were at had a daycare room and when they were not in the Montessori class, they were in the daycare room with the exception of 2-3 periods of 20-40 minutes that were outside, weather permitting. The rules for the daycare room were different. They could make noise at "inside voice" levels. They could play freely, as long as it was not rowdy or disruptive. So games in groups or playing with toys together or singing or talking without yelling was fine. During outside play, it was like any play-based outdoor play. There was a lot more freedom outside as long as no one was doing anything dangerous or getting hurt. The philosophy at our Montessori school was that the children learned what was appropriate behavior in each setting. In the classroom, they spoke in whispers so that a conversation by a student with teacher or even the occasional student-to-student conversation was not distracting or disruptive to the other students. They learned that in the learning setting, they needed to be quiet and do their work. They learned that in the daycare setting they could play and talk but not yell. They learned that outdoors, they could yell or make noise as much as they wanted. It was because of this training that it was easier for us to take our 2-4 year olds out to restaurants and other people's homes (people without children). We would make sure to get them outside time before or after such visits but they were good about knowing the difference between sitting at a table in a restaurant and being at the playground (which a lot of children these days don't seem to understand). We later moved them to a different program, but it wasn't because of dissatisfaction with the Montessori school. That experience was very good for us and we are still friends with many of the families that we met there and our kids bonded very well with the other kids in that program.[/quote]
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