Great Mystery Montessori is an early childhood center offering a Montessori program in which children are respected as individuals and are encouraged to develop their total personality at their own pace and within their individual growth styles, laying the foundation for a lifetime of creative learning.

The basic aim of the Montessori approach is to help children acquire the confidence and motivation they need to fulfill their own best potential.  This is done by providing an environment which makes activities available that support children’s development, build on their interest and nurture their enthusiasm.  This emphasis on inner motivation, based on children’s natural curiosity leads them to delight in discovery.

We have specially designed our classrooms for our children. It is a world scaled down to a child’s size with low shelves that showcase a wealth of learning materials. The teachers move unobtrusively through this child-space, working with individual children or small groups, assisting each according to need. Within a flexible schedule, the school day is spent as follows: a long block of time used for individual or small group activities, periods of time for outdoor play where children have a chance to use their large muscles for climbing, running, digging in the sand; a time for snack; a time for large group activities where the children enjoy music, dancing, singing and story telling.