Come to Summer Camp| The "Learning" Approach |
Each Montessori class, from toddlers through Middle school, operates on the principle of freedom within limits. Every program has its set of ground rules, which differs from age to age, but is always based on core Montessori beliefs-respect for each other and for the environment. Children are free to work at their own pace with materials they have chosen, either alone or with others. The teacher relies on his or her observations of the children to determine which new lessons and materials he may introduce to an individual child or to a small or large group. The aim is to encourage active, self-directed learning and to strike a balance of individual mastery with small group collaboration within the whole group community. In a world of rapid change and new discoveries, we can only guess at the skills our children will need to succeed in the next century. Now, more than ever, the essential lesson is learning how to learn.  The most important years in our children’s education are not high school and college, but, instead, their first twelve years of life. This is when their character and values, self-image, basic skills and knowledge, and appreciation for culture and the arts are formed.
Hudson offers them the most challenging academic program that children can handle in a course of study that includes the inquiry based literature programs, creative writing, unified mathematics, geometry, pre-algebra, history, geography, economics, philosophy and ethics, computers, botany and zoology, the physical sciences, foreign language study, art, music, dance, and physical education.
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