Allow your child to learn through self-direction, exploration and individualized educational experiences at a Bright Horizons Montessori.

Typically, Montessori schools  have mixed age classrooms, where children of multiple ages (for example, ages 3 to 6 years) , work and play together. They  develop skills at their own pace through sequenced learning experiences, and from observing and interacting with one another,  in a carefully prepared learning  environment.

Under the direction of specially trained Montessori teachers, purposeful learning activities promote the development of social skills, emotional growth, intellectual curiosity, physical coordination, and cognitive preparation, including language and math development.

What is a Montessori learning center?

Based on the groundbreaking work of Dr. Maria Montessori, our classrooms are thoughtfully designed environments that encourage self-directed exploration and individualized, and small group learning experiences:

• Practical life skills - These include activities like flower arranging, table scrubbing, cooking, learning to work with zippers, buttons, and other real life skills guiding children towards personal and social responsibility. These activities support children's physical development, including strengthening fine motor skills for later writing work.
• Sensory learning - This area of the curriculum includes some of the more iconic Montessori materials like the Pink Tower. These unique materials are meant to stimulate children's learning through the senses, as they explore color, shape, size, etc.
• Math - The math materials are hands on representations of concepts including place value, fractions, skip counting, etc.  and they support building children's mathematical skills  in a concrete and sequential way.
• Language & Literacy - The language materials take a child through all the stages of literacy development, beginning with spoken language, connecting sounds and letters, and creative writing with the movable alphabet and then on paper. Cultural and social studies - providing experiences that enhance a child's global view of the world, for example, through working with puzzle maps of the world and the United States of America, children learn more about their country and their state.
• Peace and social skills - helping children build friendships, collaborate in work and play,  and learn how to problem solve when challenges arise.
• Art - developing children's appreciation for art through open-ended instruction
• Music - enhancing children's learning through musical activities and experiences, for example, the Montessori bells that teach the scale and simple music composition.
• Garden - growing children's appreciation for science, nature and the world all around