The Children’s House is a converted home, with each room dedicated to a different area of the curriculum. These carefully prepared environments are warm and inviting, featuring child-sized tables and chairs, along with low, open shelves that display beautiful materials, all within easy reach of the students. Step inside, and you'll see it truly is a “Children’s House” designed for exploration and discovery.

The kitchen area is where students engage with Practical Life materials. What was once the living room is now the Language and Science space. Two former bedrooms have been transformed into Geography and Art rooms. The basement offers ample space for Math and Sensorial materials, as well as large group meetings, held each morning and afternoon. All rooms, including the basement, are filled with natural light from multiple windows, creating a bright and inviting atmosphere throughout the school.

During the school day, children have the freedom to move throughout the building during the extended work period. This flexibility allows each student to make independent choices, explore areas of interest, and discover new ideas at their own pace. Their curiosity shapes their learning, fostering a love of discovery and a sense of wonder. Teachers act as gentle guides, helping students develop inner discipline, self-confidence, and a lifelong passion for learning.

Please read below for a brief description of each curriculum area:

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  • Practical Life

    The Practical Life area is one of the four original areas developed by Maria Montessori. The lessons allow the children to develop essential skills that lead to a foundation of independence, concentration, coordination and a sense of order. This area is considered a bridge between home and school because the materials are familiar to the child and representative of his/her home environment. Work here often includes physical skills such as pouring, scooping, twisting, squeezing and lacing. Additionally, this area provides opportunities to practice self-care and care of the environment.

  • Sensorial

    The Sensorial area assists children in ordering and classifying the myriad of impressions they gather so that they can better understand and appreciate the world around them. The Sensorial materials emphasize one physical sense at a time to allow ease in contrasting differences, comparing for similarities, or grading sets of a series into proper order. The skills acquired through exploration of the Sensorial environment are carried over into all other areas of the Montessori classroom.

  • Language

    The Language curriculum provides a foundation for effective communication and interaction with others and the environment. With the development of a child’s ability to relate to his/her world comes a stronger sense of independence and empowerment. In addition to promoting an appreciation for literature throughout the school, materials and activities in this area are specifically designed to provide opportunities to practice oral, auditory, visual, and fine motor skills. The life-long process of reinforcing and expanding upon these communication skills begins here and progresses based upon each child’s individual pace and interests.

  • Science

    Science is introduced through an exploration of the world around us through botany, zoology and physical science. Simple, meaningful, concrete experiments are also performed in order to demonstrate certain concepts. Some examples of what we might investigate include: how a seed grows, what floats and what sinks, and differences between living and non-living things.

  • Geography/Cultural Studies

    Here children are introduced to their place within our universe. They learn that they are a part of the universe, galaxy, planet, continent, country, state, town, school, and family. Through these lessons, the child begins to understand his/her responsibilities as a member of these communities. Respect for all cultures is taught through stories, pictures, games, and songs.

  • Art

    Art begins with lessons on the proper use of specific materials such as crayons, paint, markers, glue, and scissors.  Drawing, painting, pasting, and cutting are all introduced over time and provide the foundation for much of what goes on in this area.  Here children have the opportunity for open-ended creativity, while also strengthening motor skills.

  • Math

    The Montessori Math curriculum begins with concrete manipulatives that use mind-hand activity. The materials isolate concepts that are repeated and ordered in such a way to lead the child toward increasingly abstract work. For instance, the child is introduced to quantity before symbol as the physical value gives meaning to the numeral. This foundation will help to make sense of more complex math as he/she continues his/her schooling.