Woodland Montessori has been serving communities in Northwest Austin since 1999 and we welcome you to our newest facility! Explore our programs and curriculum, where your child can experience the complete journey from infancy to school-age.
ADMISSIONS: Please contact us (512) 506 -8800 or woodlandmontessori@live.com to schedule a tour of our facility.
Programs
Infant Program (under 18 months)
During the first three years of life, a child’s brain absorbs more information from the environment than at any other part of his lifetime. Our Infant Program is designed to stimulate infants cognitively through individual daily routines including physical development and health, language and literacy, and social emotional learning. This is the crucial time when every sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell is taken in and processed. Through our daily activities, we create an environment that enables an infant’s brain to establish important relationships and develop concrete learning skills.
Toddler Program (18 months – 3 years)
Our Toddler Program is designed to be an interactive experience between the classroom, the teacher, and the children.Through natural curiosity, the child absorbs information, assimilates it with his senses, and constructs his own knowledge. Toddlers will learn to count, formulate sentences, discover their artistic and musical abilities, differentiate between their emotions, and learn about the world around them. Even at this early stage, a child is soon able to make choices for his own independence.
Pre-K Program (3 years – 6 years)
Our Pre-Kindergarten Program focuses on mastering kindergarten-level math, reading, and science objectives. Sensory, cognitive, language, social, and cultural activities address the natural tendencies of the child’s developmental process. Our program reinforces early literacy skills and prepare students to become self-reliant, productive individuals, to think, speak and write with clarity and find joy and self-worth through achievement.
Montessori
The Montessori Philosophy teaches a progressive curriculum that uses child-directed learning, backed by observation and scientific research, as its core value. At the center of Montessori education is self-direction. Instead of being traditionally taught, kids are encouraged to make their own choices in the classroom, with a teacher to guide them along the way.
Italian educator and physician Dr. Maria Montessori, who founded the Montessori movement in 1907, concluded that children are highly motivated to learn and teach themselves when placed in a carefully designed environment and given the opportunity to work for long, uninterrupted periods of time.
Montessori Classroom
Montessori educational practice helps children develop creativity, problem solving, critical thinking and time-management skills, care of the environment and each other, and prepares them to contribute to society and to become fulfilled persons.
Montessori education is hands-on and encourages plenty of play and collaborative activities with the other children in the class. Mixed-age classrooms teach children how to work together and learn from each other as they master life skills.
In a Montessori preschool, children are grasping the same concepts as their peers in a traditional classroom, but the idea is for children to learn individually and at their own pace by moving freely around the room and choosing from a wide range of hands-on, age-appropriate activities that are designed to teach specific skills.
Schools aim to foster a healthy self-esteem and sense of independence, allowing children to make their own choices and teaching them basic skills like pouring themselves a glass of water or learning to button a shirt.
Classroom Environment
Montessori schools aim to create a calm, child-centered learning environment with an emphasis on personal responsibility.
Components necessary for a program to be considered authentically Montessori include multi age groupings that foster peer learning, uninterrupted blocks of work time, and guided choice of work activity. In addition, a full complement of specially designed Montessori learning materials are meticulously arranged and available for use in an aesthetically pleasing environment.
Extra classes
- Dance classes are held at Woodland Montessori once week offered by Kinderdance.
- Free Spanish lessons are offered twice a week by a private instructor.
- More classes are coming soon…
Forms and policies
Parents interested in enrollments please contact the school to schedule a tour. Admission packages and pricing information are available upon completion of the tour. We offer convenient year-round admissions.
Careers
Looking for a position as a Montessori teacher, substitute teacher, administrator, or support staff in an AMI/AMS affiliated school? Please email your resume to woodlandmontessori@live.com. We look forward to meeting you!
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ’The children are now working as if I did not exist.” – Maria Montessori
Gallery
We highly value the privacy of our students. Please note that only the parents of enrolled students will have access to our archives of class pictures & videos. A preview of class projects, activities and special events are below.
Science Projects
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- Introduction to science tools
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- Magnify-explore outdoor with magnifying glass
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- How to set up and use a microscope
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- Roots - how do plants grow
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- Lessons in marine life
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- Land animals
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- Interactive lessons-animal world
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- Rising air experiment
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- Learning about germination
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- Lessons in Planting
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- Sunshine, water, soil and growing success
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- Summer harvest
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- Reptiles, amphibians and prehistoric dinos
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- Fun static experiment
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- Sink or float
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- Learning about bugs life
Special Events & Activities Albums
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- Making Gingerbread man
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- Easter egg coloring
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- July 4th artwork
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- Mothers day artwork
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- Halloween artwork
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- Valentines day artwork
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- Our trick or treaters
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- Christmas artwork
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- Pumpkin carving day
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- Spanish class activities
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- Thanksgiving art work
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- Mayflower and building a Pilgrim village
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- Thanksgiving artwork
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- Fall artwork
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- Easter egg hunt
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- Making a Spooky house - Halloween
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- Halloween collages
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- Student letters to Santa
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- Our Pilgrims and Natives having a Thanksgiving Feast
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- Santa visiting the students
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- Holiday performance by PreK Kinderdancers