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[quote=Anonymous]+2 Its true. As a parent in MCPS, the kids in play based preschools are also far ahead of the Curriculum. K in MCPS 2.0 is free child care and social development. I think play-based preschool is perfectly fine but we really liked the academic methodology. A good play based program that lets kids go as far as they want and give them as much time to practice as they need also puts them far ahead of the current public school mentality.

Where Montessori is unique is that it doesn't assume kids can only learn something at a certain age. It provides flexibility that kids develop at different paces which the general public school system ignores. There is no everyone has to wait until the last person figures it out. There is no issue if a child needs to practice a particular skill more to get it. It also gives kids more independence.

The 3 year olds start doing phonetic sounds and building words. Some really take to this and move on to reading and others need more practice and start reading later. They also start introducing estimating and place value to 3 and 4 year olds.

Math uses the same concepts. They teach math in a way that makes far more sense. They actually build on the concepts. Multiplication is just adding a number to itself multiple times. They don't make a big deal of calling it multiplication and they never expect kids to memorize the tables. They simply take K kids who are comfortably skip counting and show them pattern boards that introduce multiplication. They introduce the symbol after the child has mastered the concept. When they teach the kids addition they don't arbitrarily stop at single digits because gasp they are Kindergartners. They let them do problems up to 4 or 5 place values. It teaches them that there are connections between the different types of equations. They get a much better foundation than the random way MCPS bounces around and the arbitrary ceilings it creates.  [/quote]

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