PRESCHOOL
33 Months to 6 Years
Authentic Montessori education nurtures the habits of proven life success traits; joy in the moment, perseverance, self-reliance, and love of learning.
7:00am — 8:30am
Arrival
Practical Life
Create happy links to home as your child’s independence grows. Familiar activities like polishing, folding laundry and sewing all help in your child’s conquest of independence, with the added benefit of simultaneously strengthening their fine motor skills.
Sensorial
Refine your child’s senses as they explore and discover the world. The Montessori Method’s sensorial tools require children to match scents, sounds, colors and more. These tools are designed to isolate a specific sense to allow your child to further develop their sense of touch, sight, taste, sound, smell and propioception to allow your child to beceome more aware of their bodies and the environment around them. Using purposefully designed materials, such as “sound cylinders” that make different noises, the games and extensions are endless!
Language
We want your child to fall in love with language, and the wide array of linguistic materials in the classroom take advantage of the young child’s desire to communicate. Over the three year work cycle, your child will expand their vocabulary, learn to recognize letters and their phonetic sounds, and even how to write and read!
Math
Hands-on math experiences make a life-long impact. Your child can grasp numbers through the use of our math materials, like our “100 square”. Not only seeing the symbol for 1, 1000 or ½, they hold each in their hand: demonstrating to themselves the basics of arithmetic. Their learning is lasting as they can easily count, share, separate and compare numbers in this fun and tactile way.
PRIMARY (PRESCHOOL) ROUTINES AND ACTIVITIES
WHAT OUR PARENTS HAVE TO SAY
“He surprises me everyday with how capable he is.”
My little dude is flourishing at PVMA. He surprises me everyday with how capable he is. Thank you!
“So many amazing people who are so positive and kind.”
So happy and blessed to be a part of a great community and so many amazing people who are so positive and kind. 
PVMA
“His teachers have been great.”
We’ve had our son at PVMA since January and seen a huge change in his personality and development since! His teachers have been great and very open with their techniques in working with our son and he really seems to enjoy going every day!
“One of the benefits we see in the Montessori method is the student-to-student learning cycles that occur with the mixed age groups. We felt that the kindergarten experience mixed with younger children would help skill mastery in our 5yo through peer teaching. She communicates that her favorite part of her day is when she helps her friends at school. Her self-confidence is very high now that she is an older role model of the class.”
“We chose Peaceful Valley Montessori academy for our son’s kindergarten year to provide the most supportive loving environment and individualized learning for him.
The supportive loving environment – We saw firsthand how Peaceful Valley staff brought the best out of him and how the people around a child, both adults and class friends, have a significant impact on a child’s character. In this kindergarten year where kids are very much still sponges and defining who they are influenced by their environment, we saw it important that our son be a part of a loving, respectful, supportive environment. The kind of environment where kids are shown that their emotions matter and also how to process through them. There was a series of months during preschool when we pulled our son out of PVMA children’s house to witness a great decline in his learning, his behaviors towards others, and his self talk. The first day he was back, he was greeted with a warm welcoming embrace from his teacher and smiles and hellos from friends excited to see him back in the environment. Additionally, for his kindergarten year, it was important to give our [middle] son the opportunity to become a leader in the environment.
The individualized learning – We were drawn to the Montessori structure of individualized, child-lead learning. We saw how in the previous years his teacher encouraged him to challenge himself and when he would complain of “boredom” encouraged him to lean into his works. Half way through his kindergarten year he comes home already showing us his reading skills and math abilities. Through the Montessori system we have seen him learn just as much as our oldest son did through a traditional kindergarten experience, while being able to also be a leader in the environment and a leader in his own learning. He still comes home excited to tell us of new presentations and when he has mastered a work.
We are so pleased with our decision to experience (and benefit from) a Montessori kindergarten, specifically with Peaceful Valley staff and children house friends!”
“As a parent of children who previously participated in, and are currently enrolled in, kindergarten at PVMA, I have experience seeing how well this program prepares them for 1st grade and beyond. My daughter, who is now in 1st grade at a Christian Academy, has transitioned very well and is flourishing! At her first parent/teacher conference, her teacher praised how good she is as a listener, leader, and learner; and had no concerns about her meeting the standards. In fact, her teacher stated that she is ahead in certain subjects.
The ability to work independently, and as a leader, in the Montessori environment has helped shape and prepared her to be successful. Having phonics be such a large part of the curriculum has helped my daughter with the transition as well. She came out of the Montessori kindergarten curriculum being able to read at a 1st-2nd grade level. The math curriculum in the Montessori classroom also helped my daughter to be prepared to learn and excel in 1st grade. She is doing so well; she is being given “challenge” questions by her teacher because she can grasp and understand the assignments at a higher level.
I am now seeing all these advancements with my son who is currently enrolled in kindergarten at PVMA. I see his excitement to learn new works and seeing them click in his mind. He is already starting to excel with his sounds and learning to read with phonics works. I also see him starting to make progress with his math work. I am very excited to see him continue to grow and learn in the Montessori kindergarten environment before he starts 1st grade at the Christian Academy next year.
I attribute so much of the poise, kindness, leadership, advancements, and attentiveness that my children have to their time in the Montessori classroom. I am so glad they were able to continue their education through kindergarten at PVMA. Their experiences and education in these early years will help to shape their education in the future!”