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• Three or four year program for children 2 year 7 months to 6 years
• Student to teacher ratio - 11:1
• In addition to core curriculum: Spanish, Music and Body Movement

The Children’s House program is for children from 2 years 7 months to 6 years. In this mixed-age environment children spend three or four years in the same classroom, getting to know each other and their teachers well. The continuity of returning to the same room each year makes for a strong classroom community for children and parents alike.

The children learn by doing. The carefully prepared classroom, where everything is just their size, is full of beautiful things. The concrete materials let children explore the world through their senses, through touch and motion, and by observing and engaging with others. Teachers guide students through the curriculum as children are ready for each new challenge, introducing lessons and then letting children practice what they have learned. As children grow, the classroom materials grow with them in the sense that older children use the materials to explore curriculum in new and deeper ways. The 3-6 year old goes through an intense period of change, including the transition to cooperative play and more complex social interactions, a language explosion leading to beginning skills in writing and reading, the emergence of number sense and the foundations of math, as well as great changes in physical development. The Montessori teacher responds to these changes in social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development with appropriate lessons to support each child’s growth and emerging capabilities. The children come to school five days a week, from 8:30 to 11:30 or 12:30 to 3:30.

Extended Day or Kindergarten
Extended Day, the culminating year of the Children’s House, provides an extraordinary opportunity for 5 and 6 year olds to develop their leadership skills. The children act as positive peer models for their younger classmates, assuming positions of responsibility that further strengthen their own capabilities and self-esteem. Everything that children have learned in previous years comes together in Extended Day, giving children a readiness to meet new challenges.

Children possess an ability to simply absorb information from their environment, like a sponge. Dr. Montessori called this phenomenon “the absorbent mind”.