The Montessori Schoolhouse is a Montessori charter school in central Tucson operating two campuses and serving children from preschool through the middle-school years. It offers Montessori-style, hands-on, mixed-age classrooms alongside enrichment and before/after-school care.
The Montessori Schoolhouse is a charter school with two campuses in central Tucson that serves children from preschool through the middle-school years. The school uses mixed-age classroom groupings and hands-on learning materials consistent with Montessori practice.
Instruction emphasizes Montessori principles: self-directed learning in a prepared environment, practical life and sensorial work, and development across social, emotional, physical and academic domains. Classrooms contain Montessori materials for Practical Life, Sensorial/Motor skills, Language, Mathematics, Geography/Culture and Science.
Enrichment offerings include daily group singing, individual music lessons (piano and violin), an organized chess program, regular art lessons and cooperative movement/PE. The school’s adolescent program includes outdoor and community-based activities, including field trips and multi-day camping experiences.
The charter structure provides a tuition-free regular school day for the charter grades; preschool and before/after-school care are provided on a fee basis. The staff includes teachers with extended tenure and collective classroom experience.
Students participate in weekly art lessons, study art history, and complete artistic projects across media as part of the curriculum.
Before- and after-school care is available on a fee basis for families who need extended hours outside the regular school day.
Elementary students receive instruction in chess strategy and practice playing together.
Elementary curriculum includes reading, mathematics, world geography, science, history, creative writing, social studies and the arts, delivered through Montessori materials and multi-subject cultural units.
An adolescent program emphasizing hands-on, self-directed learning, community engagement and identity development; includes field trips, camping trips and student-led projects.
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All classrooms sing daily; a weekly guitar-led group sing-along is led at the 6th Avenue campus, and individual piano and violin lessons are offered during the school day for interested students.
Provides a prepared Montessori environment intended to promote self-confidence, independence, concentration and a love of learning, with hands-on materials in Practical Life, Sensorimotor work, Language, Mathematics, Culture/Geography and Science.
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