Our Campus

The Montessori Children’s School has been providing quality education to the Upper Valley for over 25 years. With trained teachers and an exceptional environment, our school guides children 3-6 years of age, offering a preschool and kindergarten program. Our classrooms are multi-age and closely follow the philosophy of Maria Montessori. The curriculum focuses on independence, allowing each child to navigate through the classrooms, problem-solving and creating their own path of learning. Focusing on the holistic development of the child, the teachers create individual plans, crafting lessons and creating works based on the interests of the group. Each child is encouraged to explore language, math, geography, science throughout their three years. Our Kindergarten program meets, and in many cases, exceeds, the Common Core Standards followed by the public school system.

As they move through the 3 year program, the children develop an interest in language and numbers. The language area allows for teachers to focus on oral and written language, with a rich area of books and works from the Montessori language curriculum. Through a rich language curriculum, the children are also introduced to vocabulary and concepts related to geography, science, nature and the seasons. By spending a lot of time in our many outdoor spaces, they learn to observe their surroundings and develop a strong relationship to the living and nonliving things around them. Their number sense starts with learning symbols and one-to-one correspondence and ends with having a strong sense of place value and basic mathematical manipulations, such as addition and subtraction.