Giraffe Room (~8 weeks to 12 months old)
The primary aim of our Giraffe Room is to provide a loving and nurturing environment for our youngest children. These little ones will experience a world of soft colors and soft contours where they can learn about the wonderful world they’ve joined. We’ll read, sing, dance, and laugh with them. Enrollment in this program is very limited, and our wait list is usually larger due to smaller teacher to child ratios.
Our infant classroom is put together with the overall safety and developmental needs of our youngest children in mind. You will see a variety of different learning materials that encourage exploration and support the development and mastery of new skills. Balls, blocks, instruments, shape sorters, sensory bottles, books and more stimulate your child’s learning.
Each day includes experiences that foster creative expression, cognitive development, social and emotional growth, motor skills, and problem-solving skills, while providing nurturing and loving care.
Bear Room (~1 to 1 ½ years old)
Our Bear Room is designed to encourage the innate need of children to explore, adventure, and discover. It is thoughtfully put together with developmentally appropriate play and learning materials. In the toddler classroom, you will find blocks, puzzles, sensory supplies, books, and more. Arts and crafts projects are planned each day.
Enrollment in this classroom is also limited. Children must be able to drink from a sippy cup, feed themselves finger foods, nap just one time a day.
Toddlers have the freedom to choose what activities they are interested in during free play, laying the groundwork for our Montessori philosophy of education. Teachers guide and support their learning through play and other activities, helping them learn new skills and encouraging them to try new experiences.
Wolf Room (~1 ½ to 2 ½ years old)
Our Wolf Room provides experiences and activities that foster the rapid learning and development that occur at this critical age.
Activities and lessons are purposefully planned and suited towards each child’s needs, strengths, and interests. Children work on puzzles, fine motor activities, coloring, arts and crafts, and more. The Wolf Room also begins working on potty training with the children, in conjunction with families working on it at home when their child is ready.
Our Wolf Room curriculum provides an opportunity to learn and practice skills and knowledge relating to the areas of language, math, science, creative arts, social and emotional, and physical development.
Sandpiper Room (~2 ½ to 3 years old)
Our Sandpiper Room provides an environment to foster independence and growth before children enter our larger classrooms. Activities and lessons are purposefully planned and suited towards each child’s needs, strengths, and interests. The Sandpiper Room also works on potty training with the children, as families work on it at home. Children in the Sandpiper Room are introduced to basic Montessori materials.
Our Sandpiper Room curriculum provides an opportunity to learn and practice skills and knowledge relating to the areas of language, math, science, creative arts, social and emotional, and physical development.
Fox & Elephant Rooms (Montessori Classrooms, ~3 to 6 years old)
Our Montessori classrooms include the oldest children in the school. They are mixed age classrooms with children from three years old through six years old. Our mornings are based on Montessori philosophies and ideals, working to foster rigorous, self-motivated growth for children in all areas of their development. The goal of this is to nurture each child’s natural desire for knowledge, understanding, and respect. This time provides children with individual, small group, and whole group activities and lessons. Children use the Montessori materials to engage in activities specifically designed for their learning in the areas of practical life, sensorial development, natural science, social studies (geography and history), language and phonics skills, math, art, music, and more. These activities are designed to promote their social, emotional, and physical development.
In the afternoon, our children are broken into same age groups. The three-year-old to three-and-a-half-year old children take a nap. The three-and-a-half-year-old children participate in Enrichment, which focused on the development of early academic skills to assist in the transition to Pre-K, including letter and sound recognition, fine motor skills, numbers and counting, and more.
Our four-year-old children participate in pre-k, which emphasizes various foundational academic skills such as counting, one-to-one correspondence, counting and writing numbers to twenty, comparing quantities, addition, sight words, beginning print concepts, letter and sound correspondence, beginning writing skills, and more. Pre-k students must be 4 years old by September 1st to be in the pre-k class.
Our five to six-year-old children are invited to enroll in Kindergarten if interested. Kindergarten students must be 5 years old by September 1st in order to be considered for the program. Our kindergarten aligns with state standards. Throughout the morning, the kindergarten students work with advanced materials and complete activities designed to refine their learning skills in all areas of the Montessori curriculum. During the afternoon, the students are exposed to a more traditional kindergarten approach. A comprehensive brochure with a specific breakdown of the Kindergarten program is sent home for any families with children of age and interested during our annual Kindergarten Night and re-enrollment period.