We empower our children and the people who surround them to live in peace and service to the world. Lighthouse Montessori School is an all-year, all-day Montessori primary school with all-day access to our outside environment. We are one Montessori trained Head of School, two trained Montessori teachers, three assistants, one substitute assistant that also provides French lessons, twenty-five children, and a community of parents, volunteers, and alumni. The goal of our Montessori program is not to prepare your child for first grade. The goal of our program is to prepare your child to discover his or her place in our global society. We support the child during a vital period of development, when the child's natural love of learning and discovery have the possibility of becoming a way of life. Our program is the first step in creating responsible citizens who feel empowered to change the world, with the regard for the people and land around them to do so respectfully.

Our program is created for children aged 2 1/2 to 6 years-old.

We work with the natural ability of children this age to absorb their surroundings. Language, both written and spoken, is everywhere in the classroom. Great care is made by the adults to only model behavior that would be appropriate for the children to replicate.
Children develop through sensitive periods where, in the right moment, learning is rapid and a delight. During these periods children strive to establish an internal sense of order, to organize sensory information received everyday, to master the language(s) spoken around them, and to bring their physical bodies under their control. Our program has concrete materials and knowledgable adults to support the acquisition of these essential skills during vital and fleeting developmental periods.
Children of this age are seeking functional independence: Tying their own shoes, cleaning their own messes, solving their own conflicts, and choosing their own means of discovery. Our program will offer ample time and support, guiding them to be masters of themselves and keepers of their environment.