About Us

HONOR

The student at Northcrest Montessori honor themselves, their teachers, their peers, and their environment. In turn, the faculty and families at Northcrest Montessori honor the inner light within the children that drives them to learn and explore.

OPPORTUNITY

The faculty and environment at Northcrest Montessori provide the opportunity for each student to learn and explore at his or her individual pace.

PASSION

The faculty at Northcrest Montessori aids each student in developing a life-long passion for learning.

EXCELLENCE

By following the Montessori philosophy and curriculum, the faculty at Northcrest Montessori sets a standard of excellence for the student body to succeed academically, emotionally, and socially.

Northcrest Montessori offers quality Montessori education five days a week to children 18 months to six years.

Parents may choose from the following program options that will best suit their families’ needs. Children will be placed in a Young Children’s Community classroom (18 months to three years) or a Primary classroom (three to six years).

Montessori Program

8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Montessori Program

8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Montessori Program

7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

All programs are offered for the academic year (August to June) and in the summer (June to August).

Included in the tuition are healthy snacks (organic and local, when available).

Children enrolled in the Primary programs (three to six years old) must be independent in the bathroom before their first day of school.

Diapers and wipes are included in the tuition for our Young Children’s Communities.

Ages 2½ through six years and is composed of the following areas of instruction:

Practical Life includes exercises in developing concentration, independence, and control of movement while providing the basis for sequencing and order. Examples of practical life include buttoning and tying exercises, pouring grains and water, hand and table washing, movement, and art.

Sensorial materials aim to isolate each of the five senses for the child to refine and classify. The sensorial materials set into motion the ability to think abstractly and include visual, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, auditory, and stereognostic (combining tactile and visual memory) materials. An introduction to music, geometry, algebra, and geography is also included in this area of study.

Language focuses on the three areas of language: spoken language, writing, and reading. Further language study incorporates functions of words (noun, adjective, article, verb, adverb, conjunction, preposition), sentence analysis, and word study (i.e., homonyms, antonyms, compound words).

Mathematics covers the following concepts:

• Numbers 1 to 10
• Decimal system (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
• Teens and tens
• Memorization of facts in each operation
• Decimal system from 10,000 to 1,000,000
• Fractions

Ages 18 months to three years and is composed of the following areas of instruction:

Practical Life includes exercises in developing concentration, independence, and control of movement while providing the basis for sequencing and order. Examples of practical life in our Young Children’s Community include activities for caring for oneself (toileting independently, eating, and dressing) and caring for the environment (setting the table, washing dishes, washing windows, and dusting).

Language in the Young Children’s Community focuses on spoken language. Learning new vocabulary through daily activities, singing songs, and reading books are part of the YCC curriculum.

Students in the Young Children’s Community learn to be a part of our community. Through everyday simple grace and courtesy lessons, the children understand how to get along with their peers and the adults at our school.