Openings for 18 months to 6 years.
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Montessori at the Old Schoolhouse
Montessori at the Old Schoolhouse is a diverse and engaging educational partnership of parents, teachers, children and community. Our school was founded in the Fall of 2004 by sisters Anna and Josephine Salvatico, who bring to it over 20 years experience each teaching toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners with the Montessori approach. At the schoolhouse, we nurture a child’s love of learning and sense of responsibility, using child-centered philosophies, curriculum and materials to develop the intellectual, physical, moral, artistic, emotional, and academic excellence inherent in each child. Over the course of the year, our children grow in a Montessori environment to become self-assured, independent, vibrant students who love to learn. We encourage the parents of both prospective and enrolled students to visit! Contact us to set up a time.
“Imagine a place where your child is always greeted warmly and made to feel welcome with a parent-communication experience that keeps you informed and confident that your child has fallen in love with learning.”
Location
Montessori at the Old Schoolhouse is located on the rolling hills of the founders’ family farm in Tivoli, NY (at the corner of 9 and West Kerley Corners). The building is based on the old one-room schoolhouse originally located in Gallatin that now stands at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds. Our school was designed and equipped according to the Montessori principles of order, simplicity, and beauty, yet it also reflects the personality and philosophy of our teachers. The classrooms — the upstairs ones for primary students, the downstairs ones for toddler students — are brightly decorated, clean, child-sized and child-centered. The classroom materials the children work with are all natural. And the rural setting inspires the curriculum to include gardening, nature walks, and the occasional feeding of our sheep and goats.
557 West Kerley Corners Road Tivoli, NY 12583
Hear it from our parents!
Our daughter has spent three years at Montessori at the Old Schoolhouse, including summers, and she’s thrived there. I love that the small class size ensures each child gets individual attention, that the school is situated on a working farm with animals, and that the teachers are flexible, straightforward, and open to feedback. Plus, they occasionally offer parents an affordable date-night drop-off!
Lorelei & Joey
Parent
Montessori at the Old School House is an incredibly warm, kind, and welcoming place. Our daughter is very shy and sensitive and we weren’t sure how she’d adjust to a pre-school program. But from her first day there she loved all the teachers and talked about them constantly at home. We really like the program and enjoyed the creative ways that Josephine and Anna get the parents involved, like the “Walk Around the Sun” tradition for each child’s birthday.
Emma & Rob
Parent
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