Children's House

The Montessori Primary environment or “Children’s House” is designed to call to the child’s specific and heightened sensitivities that characterize this stage of his development.

Each Children’s House is prepared with a full compliment of Montessori materials that provide a unique educational experience in the areas of Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, and Mathematics. In working with these materials, the child develops essential skills for life through building their own self-confidence, independence, and concentration.

The primary role of the Montessori teacher, or Guide, is to serve as an active link between the child and the Montessori material. Within this role, the teacher provides direction and guidance to each individual child so that learning may become a series of joyful discoveries that the child makes for herself/himself. The Montessori way of teaching values each child's style, pace and approach toward learning.

Each Children’s House is multi-aged grouping of approximately 20 children ages 3-6. Within a mixed age community, the oldest children become the models and the inspiration for the youngest, while consolidating their own knowledge, concepts, self-confidence, and sense of responsibility. Since a child builds on their previous years' experiences and mastery of the materials, the three-four year program allows for growth toward a healthy independence as well as prepares the child for their next level of education.

To best promote and satisfy the child’s developmental need for order within a community of young children, our Montessori Primary program meets five days a week, Monday through Friday. We offer families the following two programs; Half Day (8:30-12:00 M-F) and Full Day (8:30-3:30 M-F). All children in their final year of the Primary Level must enroll in the full day program.