Our programs

Infant (2 to 12 months old)

Full Day 5-day Program: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Extended Care: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

The Infant program at De La Fontaine Trilingual Montessori School is designed to allow babies to grow and develop at their own pace. Your baby will be with teachers—loving, nurturing, and rigorously trained in child development—who create peaceful, supportive, and safe environments for our youngest children. In these spaces, a child’s natural passion for wonder, curiosity, exploration, independence, and discovery comes alive. The Infant environment is more than a simple nursery, it is a home away from home for children ages 2 to 12 months.

Under the careful guidance of experienced and trained teachers, the children engage in practical life pursuits as well as sensorial activities, puzzles, art, music and conversation. Independence is fostered by allowing the child to choose from a variety of activities that he or she can accomplish with success. The daily practice of these activities enhances the child’s ability to communicate with confidence, move with grace, and develop self-reliance.

The Infant community is introduced to foreign languages with a full immersion in English, French and Spanish. Learning another language or two, can be as easy for young children as learning their first language. They are in the period of the “absorbent mind”; they are starting to learn to speak, no matter in which language!

Young Toddler (1 to 2 years old)

Young Toddler Full Day 5-day Program: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Extended Care: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

The Young Toddler program at De La Fontaine Trilingual Montessori School is designed to allow children to grow and develop at their own pace. The Young Toddler environment is more than a simple classroom, it is a home away from home for children ages 12 to 23 months. Our classrooms are designed to meet the independent and curious nature of young toddler children, allowing them to freely explore in a safe, beautiful, carefully prepared environment that is just their size. We welcome Young Toddlers in diapers and pull-ups and are eager to advise and support your toilet training efforts for the children when they are ready.

Cognitive skills and practical life
Fine motor skills
Gross motor skills
Sensory skills
Practice social skills and caring for others

Under the careful guidance of Montessori-trained teachers, the children engage in practical life pursuits as well as sensorial activities, puzzles, art, music and conversation. Independence is fostered by allowing the child to choose from a variety of activities that he or she can accomplish with success. The daily practice of these activities enhances the child’s ability to communicate with confidence, move with grace, and develop self-reliance.

The young toddler community is introduced to foreign languages with a full immersion in English, French and Spanish. Learning another language or two, can be as easy for young children as learning their first language. They are still in the period of the “absorbent mind”; they are still starting to learn to speak, no matter in which language!

Toddler (2 to 3 years old)

Toddler Half Day 5-day Program: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Toddler Full Day 5-day Program: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Extended Care: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

The Toddler program at De La Fontaine trilingual Montessori School is designed to allow children to grow and develop at their own pace . The Toddler environment is more than a simple classroom, it is a home away from home for children ages 24 to 36 months. Our classrooms are designed to meet the independent and curious nature of a toddler, allowing them to freely explore in a safe , beautiful, carefully prepared environment that is just their size. We welcome toddlers in diapers and pull-ups and are eager to advise and support your toilet training efforts for your toddler when they are ready. Each student in our Toddler program has the opportunity to:

Strengthen language skills
Refine gross and fine motor skills
Develop independence and confidence
Practice social skills and caring for others
Explore music, movement and literature

Under the careful guidance of Montessori-trained toddler teachers, our children engage in practical life pursuits, such as dressing, hand washing and gardening, as well as pre-reading activities, puzzles, art, music and conversation. Independence is fostered by allowing the child to choose from a variety of activities that he or she can accomplish with success. The daily practice of these activities enhances the child’s ability to communicate with confidence, move with grace, and develop self-reliance.

The toddler community will be introduced to foreign languages with a full immersion. Learning another language or two, can be as easy for toddlers as learning their first language. They are still in the period of the “absorbent mind”; they are still starting to learn to speak, no matter in which language! Throughout the day our native speaking (American / French / Spanish) teacher stand with the child during his activities.

Primary

Primary Half Day 5-day Program: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Primary Full Day 5-day Program: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Kindergarten Full Day 5-day Program: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Extended Care: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

In the Montessori method, the primary level corresponds to Pre-school and Kindergarten in a traditional school. Children who are 3, 4, or 5 years of age on or before September 1st are placed in the primary classes, usually finishing the year at ages 4, 5, or 6.

Our early childhood classrooms are designed to meet the ever changing needs of the three to six year old child. Beauty and order play important roles in creating the child size atmosphere which is carefully designed to encourage curiosity and a love for learning. De La Fontaine Trilingual Montessori School offers each child the opportunity:

To develop a solid academic foundation and desire for lifelong learning
To encourage independent decision making and problem solving skills
To become an integral member of the classroom community
To develop positive social, emotional and physical growth in a respectful environment

Some enrichment programs as gardening, cooking , animal care., arts, music, yoga … are included in our flexible curriculum , as a great way to teach children to be responsible and caring, to explore with their senses, to learn how to relieve any stress they might have, to teach about teamwork, learning cooperation and communication with others , to develop creativity and manipulative ability …

At age 3, the child is in the sensitive period for language, and can acquire it with an absorbent mind, in a way that won’t be accessible to him once he enters the elementary years. Our trilingual immersion Montessori program is the ideal environment to help your child reach his full potential. Children do not learn three languages but in three languages. We propose 3 classrooms (1 English / 1 Spanish / 1 French ) , which will be connected together allowing children to move around in the 3 full equipped Montessori environments with 3 native speaking ( English / Spanish / French ) lead teachers . Lead teachers speak only the target language, and children are expected, over time, to speak to teachers and peers only in those languages. Throughout the day , even if the child is free to move among the 3 classrooms, children will be guided by the teachers to discover the 3 languages.

Kindergarten

Kindergarten Full Day 5-day Program: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Extended Care: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

In the Montessori method, the ‘kindergarten’ aged children (5 years old by September 1st ) is part of the primary classroom ( mixed-aged from 3 to 6 years old ).

The Kindergarten year in Montessori early childhood education, is an incredibly important one, as it is the third and final year of the 3-6 cycle. The Kindergarteners are the oldest, most experienced students. This final year of their 3-year cycle provides them with many advantages, from having the opportunity to be classroom leaders and mentors, to stretching their learning with the Montessori materials in the most complex of ways, all while remaining in the warm, familiar, nurturing classroom community they have grown to be a part of over the course of three years. This capstone year provides the Kindergarteners with great benefits in their academic, as well as their social-emotional development.

Our primary classrooms are designed to meet the ever changing needs of the three to six year old child. Beauty and order play important roles in creating the child size atmosphere which is carefully designed to encourage curiosity and a love for learning. Valley Montessori offers each child the opportunity:

To develop a solid academic foundation and desire for lifelong learning
To encourage independent decision making and problem solving skills
To become an integral member of the classroom community
To develop positive social, emotional and physical growth in a respectful environment

The Kindergarteners will be offered our trilingual immersion. Children do not learn three languages but in three languages. We propose 3 classrooms (1 English / 1 Spanish / 1 French ) , which will be connected together allowing children to move around in the 3 full equipped Montessori environments with 3 native speaking ( American / Spanish / French ) lead teachers . Lead teachers speak only the target language, and children are expected, over time, to speak to teachers and peers only in those languages. Throughout the day , even if the child is free to move among the 3 classrooms, children will be guided by the teachers to discover the 3 languages.

Extended care

Before School is offered from: 8:00 am – 9:00 pm
After School is offered from: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Extended Day care is offered from: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

In addition to the school hours, an extended care program before and after school is available. Extended Care program is designed to a be a fun and playful extension of the school day for children who need to arrive early or stay later. Students transition smoothly to and from school into extended care because behavior expectations, safely guidelines and procedures are the same as the students experience daily in the classroom.

Summer program

The summer program at De La Fontaine trilingual Montessori School is a continuation of the Montessori classroom experience with a full trilingual immersion, completed with additional opportunities for many rich outdoor experiences. Consistency is an essential element in a child’s life. Continuing the patterns established during the traditional school year throughout the summer encourages your child’s interior sense of order and organization.
Within the comfortable parameters of the Montessori environment and with experienced staff, the children explore all kinds of things in the summer. The warm, sunny weather allows children to get outdoors to study plants and insects. They cultivate a garden and learn to care for it as well as harvest and prepare foods from the fruits of their labor. They play cooperative games and, on those especially steamy days, play in the water.
Our summer program are also proposed to non-enrolled children to have this unique Montessori learning experience with a trilingual full immersion.

This program is open to children who are currently enrolled , but also for non-enrolled children who would like to enjoy this unique Montessori learning experience with a trilingual full immersion. You can join for a week or for the entire summer !