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Join us for Fall 2015

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Come learn with us! An engaging, fun Montessori Preschool and Kindergarten experience is available for you this Fall!  A large beautiful area is dedicated for the children's environment. We also offer the amazing, yet very simple and powerful opportunity to learn Chinese and Spanish, in addition to English and American Sign Language. Give your child a great start in languages through our immersive, hands-on, engaging, Montessori language learning method, that will benefit them in math and other areas of life for years to come! What is the difference between Lighthouse Montessori Academy and other preschool options? -  Small class size . Our enrollment is limited to 8 students. Each child will receive individualized attention to fuel their love of learning. -  The Montessori method . While any preschool will give you a break as you send your children off for a few hours a week, only a loving teacher in a carefully prepared environment, with specialized and carefully prepare

Sensorial: Art and Engeneering Technology

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These days innovation and technology are a hot subject-- and it is no secret that some of the most prominent creative minds, such as the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, or Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos credit their Montessori foundation for their ability to generate innovative solutions and think creatively.  In fact, many creative and bright minds in the fields of technology, art, poetry, science, credit their Montessori sensorial and stereognostic experiences during their early childhood as fundamental to their creative development. Such people include Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Hellen Keller, Henry Ford, Mahatma Gandhi, to name a few. What could be the link between creativity, problem solving, and Montessori? The answer is found in the brilliant Montessori sensorial works.  Patterning with the sensorial and number rods to make a maze.  This requires precision, problem solving (what do you combine to continue the pattern after the side is longer t