If education in movement is crucial, next only can be the introduction to music. As natural as beginning to write in cursive, so is the adaptation to music. At the Montessori School of Miami Beach and Gulfstream Montessori, simple intervals are introduced and soon combine with movement, singing, and listening. Line time, balancing skills, marching, tip toe, skipping, etc., are all interspersed with music. Later, matching and grading notes and playing of simple tunes is introduced.
Music appreciation is taught complete with artist's picture, country, flag, and excerpts from music.
Mathematics is of primary interest to the small child, and as the ultimate goal, includes the association of numbers and their quantities. The child's work not only stems from the environment, but from fellow classmates. The benefit of educating one another with an overseer capable and well versed in all subjects, is by far the most practical, the most concrete, the most exceptional method of education. This criteria, combined with the prepared environment, is what we maintain to educate your child The Montessori School of Miami Beach was established in September of 1969, by Bethany B. Vickers. The initial school, located on Normandy Isle in a storefront, opened with 18 students.