Montessori International Preschool

Greetings!

It will soon be 3 months since we started our amazing venture! So much has happened and we are enjoying every minute of it. At the same time, so much still needs to happen before we can consider ourselves properly settled.

We now have 7 children attending the preschool and we have started a little waiting list as the municipality does not allow us to have more children before we settle into a larger place.

Speaking of a larger place, we have been looking for a building in Frederiksberg for months now and nothing suitable has come up. In the meantime, the long-awaited building permission for the house in Valby has finally been granted to us so we are thrilled to announce that the Valby location is where we will be moving to in January 2012. We still need to renovate the building and make it nice and cosy for our lovely children so we truly hope that it will all happen smoothly.

So this is the big news for us this November: we have signed the lease with the owners of the Valby house and we are planning our move.

We are very much looking forward to it all and to finally be able to expand and welcome more children to Montessori International Preschool.

Best regards,

Isabelle Valentine

Founder and owner

About Our New Building

Here are a few facts and details about our new location:

Address: Søndermarksvej 13, 2500 Valby

Indoor area: 250 sqm

Outdoor area: about 750 sqm

Public transport: Valby station, buses no. 18 and 26

Free-standing house: listed building owned by the Carpenters Guild. We will be renting it from them.

Safe area: very quiet road, cul-de-sac, no traffic

Private garden: with fully grown trees, bushes and flowers

Private parking: for 6 cars and more parking on the street

Cycle path: adjacent to path only for bicycles and pedestrians

Closest park: Søndermarken which is 300 meters away

Close to: Copenhagen Zoo, Frederiksberg Gardens, Carslberg area.

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Interesting Books

If you are interested in knowing more about the Montessori educational approach, here are a few books that can give you more information:

The Montessori Method, by Maria Montessori

Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius, by Angeline Stoll Lillard

Montessori Read and Write: A Parent's Guide to Literacy for Children, by Lynne Lawrence

"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."

Maria Montessori

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Registrations

Throughout 2012, we will be gradually welcoming new little ones until we reach full capacity with a total of 32 children.

The first intake of new children will be on 1 February 2012. If you are interested in enrolling your child, please send us a filled out registration form.

You can also contact us by email at:

info@montessoripreschool.dk

Our requirements for admission at the preschool are:

- children must be at least 2.5 years old

- children must be toilet-trained (no more nappies/diapers and no accidents).

For more information on fees and to get the registration form, please click on the following link:

Registrations

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Support of Montessori

Inventor Alexander Graham Bell gave financial support to Maria Montessori, helped start the first Montessori class in Canada, and helped start one of the first Montessori classes in the U.S.

Scientist and inventor Thomas Edison helped found a Montessori school.

The 28th President of the United States, had a Montessori classroom installed in the basement of the White House during his term of office for staff to send their children to. His daughter also trained as a Montessori teacher.

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Montessori International Preschool

www.montessoripreschool.dk

(+45) 2636 4873

info@montessoripreschool.dk