When evaluating schools for your child, are you clear on exactly what you are looking for?  Seems like a simple enough question, right? For something that seems so simple there sure is a seemingly never ending list of volume of articles and advice on this topic available on the internet. The reality is that your decision essentially boils down to your answer to this key question: “Every morning when I drive out of the school parking, do I feel good leaving my child here?” So, where should you begin? Start with the school’s core values

If you have taken the opportunity to check out our website, Facebook pages or twitter feeds, you have likely noticed that our children love food preparation in the classroom! Of course with Thanksgiving quickly approaching, we have been cooking even more with an emphasis on preparing a whole to share. The related skills the children have been learning in the classroom since start of school including preparing food, dividing portions, setting a table, eating and cleaning up together, clearing the table, washing dishes, sweeping the floor, etc.  are all real skills necessary

Our Motto “Children First, Always” It was the year 2001, and I had spent the previous three months trying to turn around a small Montessori school in the south bay that I had just taken over.  Prior to my involvement the school had so many problems that it was on the brink of being shut down by state licensing. So it was then – after those three very long and difficult months of working on the floor of the classrooms in this troubled school constantly searching for solutions to the seemingly endless

Welcome to the Primary Classroom! We would like to give you an introductory overview of our Montessori program. Our goals and methods align with the traditional Montessori approach to learning. Our foremost goal is to provide a prepared environment where your child is able to respond to his or her natural instinct to work and learn. Young children learn best through movement and their senses thus the children are moving their bodies and engaging their senses in each area of the classroom. Within this setting the teacher is a facilitator as she