Casa Montessori’s Primary Program is truly a gift to your child. Carefully designed with development in mind, it is an opportunity to nurture your child’s individual potential within the context of a group setting. The result? Self-confidence, joy, and a lifelong love for learning.

A Mixed Age Classroom

Because the curriculum is individualized, your child can work at his or her own pace while participating in a mixed age classroom community. Your younger child learns by observing the behavior and activities of the older children. Your older child gains self-confidence, leadership skills, and responsibility by setting an example for her younger friends.

Your child will be introduced to a broad range of concepts and activities in individual and small group lessons. Activities range across practical life, sensorial materials, language development, mathematics, geography, science, culture, art, and music.

The Primary classroom is designed to help your child become her best self. Through “grace and courtesy” activities, we educate your child how to solve conflicts, how to act politely in social situations, and how to be kind and helpful to friends.

Exceptional Teachers & Their Connection with Your Child

Our Montessori trained and certified teachers chose this career because of their love for children and dedication to Montessori. Their depth of training and knowledge is amplified by the joyful and deep relationship they develop with your child throughout the three-year journey together.

Unlike conventional classrooms, where all children are expected to pay close attention to the teacher, our program does the opposite — the teacher is trained to closely observe your child’s interests, tendencies and needs. Observe a Primary classroom and you will see the teacher down at the child’s level, engaged with a student or a small group.

Instead of a top down curriculum based upon age, the teacher is trained to respect your child’s unique potential and connects the student with the lesson best suited at that precise moment of development. Your child will be challenged according to her ability, not to a generic standard.

Our teachers put tremendous care and attention to detail into the classroom with low shelves, beautiful artwork, books and cultural items of interest to pique your child’s interest and stimulate his senses. The children respond by developing a sense of classroom ownership and a drive to care for it, further deepening the bonds of the community and their quest to learn.

Three Year Cycle — Kindergarten Included

Montessori is a continuum of education that allows your child to build upon experiences each year. Your child will stay in the Primary classroom for 3 years, including the traditional “kindergarten year” — when the seeds of learning come to fruition. Reading and writing come to life from sounds and symbols. An introduction to numbers and the decimal system turn into lessons on addition, subtraction, and even multiplication and division. Students learn about geometric figures and the political countries of our world. Your child will leave the program with a strong set of academic skills; but, far more importantly, with the attitude that learning is fun, exciting and boundless. At this point, she is ready to move up to the Elementary Program, for children ages of 6 to 12.