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Our Vision

Centerra Ranch Montessori School cultivates independent leaders and lifelong learners who contribute positively to the world around them.

Our Mission

Centerra Ranch Montessori School creates future philanthropists entrepreneurs and confident learners by providing a peaceful inspiring environment and treating every individual with the utmost respect.  

What is Montessori?

Montessori is a widespread educational environment that contains specially designed manipulative materials that attract children to engage in learning activities of their own individual choice. Under the guidance of a certified Montessori teacher children in a Montessori classroom learn by making discoveries with the materials cultivating concentration motivation self-discipline and love of learning.

Montessori education is a course experience; it builds on the continuing self-construction of the child-daily weekly yearly-for the duration of the program. Although Montessori schools are divided into multi-age classrooms – parent infant (ages 0 to 3) and preschool and kindergarten (ages 3 to 6) – the prepared environments introduce an uninterrupted series of learning channels a continuum.

In the prepared environment there is a selection of activity as well as a great deal of movement. In our preschool classroom for example a three year old may be washing clothes by hand while a four year old close by is creating words and phrases with letters known as the movable alphabets and five year old is performing multiplication using a particular designed set of beads.

In the calm ordered area of the Montessori prepared environment children work on activities of their own choice at their own pace. They live through a blend of freedom and self-discipline in a place particularly designed to meet their developmental needs.