Monday-Wednesday 8:30 am – 3:30 pm: $19,450

Infant/Explorer Add-ons: (only available as add ons to the above program total)

Monday-Wednesday 3:30 – 4:30 pm: $1,765

Monday-Wednesday 3:30 – 5:00 pm: $2,650

Monday-Wednesday 7:30 – 8:30 am: $1,765

Monday-Thursday 8:30 am – 3:30pm: $24,700

Infant/Explorer add-ons (only available as add-ons to the above program total)

Monday-Thursday 3:30 – 4:30 pm: $2,350

Monday-Thursday 3:30 – 5:00 pm: $3,530

Monday-Thursday 7:30 – 8:30 am: $2,350

Monday-Friday 8:30 am – 3:30pm: $29,300

Infant/Explorer add-ons (only available as add-ons to the above program total)

Monday-Friday 3:30-4:30 pm: $2,940

Monday-Friday 3:30-500: $4,410

Monday-Friday 7:30 – 8:30 am: $2,940

Infant & Explorer Program (6W-18M)

A Montessori environment understand the uniqueness of each infant

It is a teacher’s job to assess and learn from observation what the infant’s and parent’s needs are in order to forge a successful partnership. Through an initial observation with you and your child, the teacher learns how you hold your infant, how you play with them, how you put them to sleep, how you quiet them, change them, feed them. While observing you with your infant, the teacher learns your preferences in parenting and will mirror that routine for your baby in the classroom. This helps make each child feel safe and loved and that their experience at Pennington Montessori School is just an extension of their home life!

As the child changes, their environment will reflect their needs. An infant has many physical, emotional and intellectual developmental needs. The Teacher’s job is to keep up with your child’s growth in each area. Through observation, the teacher will assess if your infant is ready for the next step of their development. Our classroom environment will change as the infants are ready for new
milestones and challenges.

Key to a Montessori infant classroom is peace. Teachers will project calmness toward all infants and each other when speaking. Low lighting and soft music also make for a serene and soothing environment. We must be kind, respectful and always model desired behavior. Diaper changing and all physical contact is done while using language, letting the baby know that they will be moved or what will be happening in the next steps. If there is a choice, the child will be asked permission to be picked up, fed, or given a diaper change. During whatever action a Montessori teacher is engaging in with
her students, it will be described and talked about to provide the beginnings of conversation.

  Monday – Wednesday 8:30 am – 12:30 pm (half day): $12,700

Monday – Wednesday 8:30 am – 3:30pm (full day): $19,450

Toddler add-ons (only available as add-ons to the above program totals)

Monday – Wednesday 3:30 – 4:30 pm: $1,640

Monday – Wednesday 3:30 – 5:00 pm: $2,460

Monday – Wednesday 7:30 -8:30 am: $1,640

Monday – Thursday 8:30 am – 12:30 pm (half day): $16,230

Monday – Thursday 8:30 am – 3:30pm (full day): $24,700

Toddler add-ons (only available as add-ons to the above program totals):

Monday – Thursday 3:30 – 4:30 pm: $2,180

Monday – Thursday 3:30 – 5:00 pm: $3,280

Monday – Thursday 7:30 – 8:30 am: $2,180

Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 12:30 pm (half day): $18,520

Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 3:30pm (full day): $29,330

Toddler add-ons (only available as add-ons to the above program totals)

Monday – Friday 3:30 – 4:30 pm: $2,730

Monday – Friday 3:30 – 5:00 pm: $4,100

Monday – Friday 7:30- 8:30 am: $2,730

Toddler Program (18M – 3 years)

The Montessori Toddler classrom is designed to encourage independence, the child’s inner sense of order, socialization, and language development

Sense of Order

Toddlers have a very strong sense of order. Each material has its own place and is always returned there. The class is run on the same schedule every day. Being able to expect what comes next helps the Toddler
feel safe, engaged, and confident.

Independence

Through the Practical Life area in the classroom, the children are presented materials and activities that will develop skills to enable them to do everyday tasks by themselves. Upon arriving each day, Toddlers will
identify their cubby, take off and hang up their coat or backpack, remove
their lunch, snacks, water bottle and put them in the proper place. They will aid in daily attendance by identifying their picture and place it in the
“present” slot. They will be able to choose work while the rest of their classmates file in before the whole class meets for morning circle time.

This independence continues throughout the Toddler’s day, choosing their own work, putting their coats on themselves, they even active participants in their toilet training. Ultimately, these early building blocks of independence help Toddlers feel prepared for new challenges and able to meet and exceed them those challenges with confidence.

Socialization

In our classroom we encourage social interaction by giving our students the correct words to use to share their feelings. Learning to be gracious and courteous to one another is a focus of the Montessori method as being kind and treating friends with respect helps to foster a very warm and nurturing environment for all to learn in.

Language Development

The toddler is very sensitive to language. At circle time, songs are sung and books are read to enrich the child’s vocabulary. The work available to children in a Toddler classroom helps to engage their natural curiosity to not only identify objects but to be able to articulate their name. Toddler teachers will sit down or kneel to the Toddler’s eye level vs. standing over them when speaking. This encourages the Toddler to feel a part of the learning process as it helps them to be able to mimic sounds and words that their teacher is using.

Monday – Thursday 8:30 am – 12:30pm (half day): $15,880

Monday – Thursday 8:30 am – 3:30pm (full day): $22,230

Pre-Primary add-ons (only available as add-ons to the above program totals):

Monday – Thursday 3:30 – 4:30 pm: $1,850

Monday – Thursday 3:30 – 5:00 pm: $2,770

Monday – Thursday 7:30 – 8:30 am: $1,850

Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 12:30 pm (half day): $17,640

Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 3:30 pm (full day): $26,240

Kindergarten (must be 5 by 9/30/24) M-F 8:30 – 3:30 pm: $18,000

Pre-Primary add-ons (only available as add-ons to the above programs)

Monday – Friday 3:30 – 4:30 pm: $2,310

Monday – Friday 3:30 – 5:00 pm: $3,470

Monday – Friday 7:30 – 8:30 am: $2,310

Pre-Primary Program (3Y – Kindergarten)

The Montessori Pre-Primary classroom consists of a 3 year cycle, culminating in a mastery of critical thinking skills necessary to achieve success in future challenges. Students remain with the same teacher, in the same classsroom throughout their time in the program. Children do not move from classroom to classroom each school year.

The Pre-Primary classroom consists of a mixed age group. This grouping enables
children to learn from and help each other without the pressure of competition.
Practical life activities such as buttoning, pouring and washing, enable the young
child to acquire a wide range of skills necessary in building the child’s self-image as
a successful, capable person. The basic readiness skills and concepts necessary for reading, writing and math are developed in a broadly based program which includes science, outdoor education, movement, social studies and geography.

The range of activities in each classroom can satisfy both the youngest child’s interest in concrete manipulative material and the older child’s increasing understanding of
abstract concepts. The Pre-Primary program is based on a three-year cycle. Parents are strongly encouraged to have their child remain through the entire three year cycle in order to maximize the benefits of this highly sensitive time.