A welcoming place for your youngest child, our Primary program is for children ages 3-6. The school year runs September through June.
Requirements for Enrollment
All children enrolling at Humboldt Park Montessori must be toilet-trained or nearly toilet-trained. Children must also be up-to-date on their vaccinations.
Uninterrupted Work
Each morning the Primary children create artwork, build and construct, learn about other countries, work one-on-one with a teacher to develop academic skills, and help to care for their classroom.
Making Snacks
The children often help to prepare their morning snack by peeling edamame, slicing apples or cucumber, spreading hummus or jelly, making orange juice, and cutting bananas
Community Lunch
Lunches are not currently provided by HPM but we are working with the State to establish a food program.
Children eat their lunch together with their teachers and learn the art of kind conversation and sharing a meal together.
Outdoor Play in All Kinds of Weather
Childhood means splashing in puddles, climbing trees, digging in the mud, and getting a face-to-face experience of all that our natural world has to offer.
Quiet Afternoons
Afternoons are a time for naps (children ages 3 and 4) and quiet reading aloud (children over age 4). The older children spend more individual time with their teacher digging deeper into academic skills like reading and math.
More Outdoor Play
We believe in the power of outdoor play so much that we do it twice a day - for nearly two hours! Research proves that all this time in nature really does grow young brains and keep bodies healthy.
“Our care of the children should be governed not by the desire to ‘make them learn things’ but by the endeavor to always keep burning within them the light which is called intelligence.” - Maria Montessori