Orcas Montessori is thrilled to be part of the Orcas Island Community Foundation's Spring Giving Campaign, launching May 6th!
We’re asking for your support to help us raise $25,000 toward our operating costs—funds that directly support our expansion to a year-round, full-day program. This shift has allowed us to better meet the needs of working families and provide consistent care and education for our students—but it also comes with increased expenses.
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The Montessori Method
Activities
The Montessori classroom offers children a wealth of hands-on activities. These are a mix of practical life, sensory, cultural, mathematic and literacy work. Each activity is presented individually and in keeping with each child’s needs and abilities, under observation of a trained guide.
We also offer ample time to explore and play outdoors.
A Community of Learners
Orcas Montessori School helps its students create a community of learners in which the younger students observe the developing skills of the older students, while the older children develop leadership skills and help the younger students. This approach fosters independent learning and a lively, cooperative system
Personal Development
When children encounter interpersonal differences, we seek to help them work out those differences by developing their own sense of discipline and community, not by relying on an external system of rewards and punishments.
