The Montessori House focuses on the education and development of children, not day care.
From ages 2-1/2 to 6, all Montessori House students enjoy the benefits of the Montessori Method.

• In our experience, younger children (under age 5) flourish in our Pre-Primary Montessori program, whether they come for a full day or a half day.  They are part of a mixed-age classroom inlcuding our Montessori Kindergarten students.  
  
  
  
• For older children (age 5 years by Oct 15), we offer our  Montessori Kindergarten program, either for a full day or half day.  Montessori Kindergarten students devote their entire day to classic Montessori works in a mixed-age classroom that includes both their peers and younger students in our Pre-Primary Montessori program.  
  
  

While most of the week is spent with the traditional works of the Montessori Method, all students spend at least one day each week in our Montessori Enrichment classroom exclusively with other children in the Pre-Primary program.  Here we engage children in both individual and small-group activities including science, art, strategic games, and cultural lessons, always following the child and allowing them to choose their works. The Enrichment works are intended to develop and enhance small-group social skills along with physical and cognitive development. 

While the Montessori Method defines the classroom experience at The Montessori House in so many ways, we care deeply about your child’s total experience at school, and about your experience as a parent.

For children, we consider a warm, caring approach a top priority.

With a low student:teacher ratio, our teachers can take the time needed to care for and guide each child -- without raised voices -- in class, at lunch, or on the playground.

First and foremost, The Montessori House follows The Montessori Method.  

Dr. Maria Montessori, the first Italian woman M.D., started a revolution in education through her observations of the way children learn. She was the first to demonstrate that children learn best by working with materials that stimulate their senses.

Dr. Montessori also discovered that there are natural learning “spurts” for different abilities (reading, logic, art, math, etc.) that follow a defined order in each child’s development.  While these occur at different ages for each child, during one of these spurts the young mind is like a sponge ready to absorb all it can of a particular skill or subject. Dr. Montessori found the vast majority of these learning “spurts” occurred during the crucial early years before age 6.  

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