Rainbow Montessori is a great school. Do your research. We found Ms. Sreedevi is a good teacher for PreK, she is strict and disciplined, this is good for kids that age. She has a reading programme that makes very easy to learn how to read. She spends time with small group and individual time with her
... Read more children and teaches them to read and write. The math she teaches her children is advanced too, Now my son became good reader ,and doing math in advance. depending on your child of course. She is a very good teacher . Read less
Posted by a parent on 11/01/09
My son was very shy when he first attended Rainbow Montessori. He came from different preschool and it took him a little while to adjust with his Kindergarten. However, we were fortunate to have Ms. Natalie in the very first year. She is very passonate with kids at the age of 5 - 6. This is her quote
... Read more 'Teaching a kid to learn how to read is much easier than teaching them how to be a good person'. Now, my son is in 1st grade and he just got his first presentation done in class with so much confidence. He has definitely learned that confidence from his very first teacher here at Rainbow Montessori. However, I have done some researches and know that not all teachers have the same way of teaching kids although they are teaching at the same level, using the same materials and having the same curriculum. Read less
Posted by a parent on 10/15/09
My older child was in Ms.Natalie class 3 years ago. She was amazing. My younger on e (unfortunately) didn't get the spot on her class this year. We were number 27 on the wait list for Ms.Natalie's class. Just an advice for other parents: don't delay on submitting the change of schedule forms. It is
... Read more hard to get the spot in best teacher classes's. Read less
Posted by a parent on 09/12/09
I don't know how anyone can compare Rainbow Montessori to Challanger or Stratford. Rainbow Montessori's math & english are way ahead of the other two schools. The individual attention given to children too are just amazing in this school. Do your research as most other parents have said and enroll your
... Read more child in these teachers' classes and then just sit back and see how well your child does. Read less
Posted by a parent on 09/02/09
Rainbow Montessori is a great school. Do your research. We found Ms. Sonia a great teacher for PreK, she is strict and disciplined, this is great for kids that age. She spends individual time with her children and teaches them to read and write. The math she teaches her children is advanced too, depending
... Read more on your child of course. She is a great teacher especially if you show intrest and work with her. You can meet her by scheduling ahead to discuss your child's progress. She is great. Read less
Posted by a parent on 09/01/09
My child was in Ms Natalie's class last year. I cannot tell you enough about the progress she made in this class. She was shy and scared in the begining but Ms Natalie just slowly got her out of her shell and now she just excell in everything she does. Children in Ms Natalie's class are encouraged to
... Read more talk in front of the class, to read in front of the class and this just makes them so much more confident in themselves. My child is now ready to read in class or in the library or to our friend's children. She does really well in math and science. Ms Natalie really is a great teacher and brings out the best in her children. Read less
Posted by a parent on 09/01/09
I have two children attending Rainbow Montessori. My older child is in second grade and my younger child is in preschool. Both have attended since they were infants. Our family has been very pleased with the education our children have received at Rainbow. We have found the teachers and staff to be very
... Read more caring and highly competent. Both children love to go to school. They work hard and have made very good academic progress (better than we could have hoped for). Extracurricular classes, including gymnastics, music, public speaking, art, swimming lessons (through the Northwest YMCA), and second language instruction, are excellent. I'm sorry to learn that some families were dissatisfied with their child(ren)'s experience at Rainbow. We have not found the large class sizes to interfere with our children's academic progress. Read less
Posted by a parent on 08/18/09
This school needs a lot of improvement, this is a montessori school where many things are missing. Personal attention to my child in many cases was impossible they are more than 30 students in each class. Working with montessori materials is also very difficult, the classroom is missing a lot of materials
... Read more and my child needs to go to other class to borrow those materials very often. Academic level, its depend of the teacher that be on charge, some are good and others needs their montessori certificade before be on charge of the group. My son will not continue in this school, l will find another montessori school that be serious and follow the montessori philosophy. Read less
Posted by a parent on 07/29/09
This is a school without discipline. I had my daughter for 3 years in this school and I decided to move on to a different school because this school doesn t take discipline seriously, one student was constantly disturbing others children in the classroom including my daughter and the School did not
... Read more take any decision about this. A school without a serious discipline system cannot be a good school and cannot be a good place for your child. Read less
Posted by a parent on 07/24/09
This is not a good school, many classrooms in Elementary have more than 28 students In a very small classroom , many times the teacher assistant is not in the classroom because she is helping in different classroom when others teachers are absent. The Students doesn t have the attention that they need
... Read more because they are many students in one class and nobody that work with the head teacher to give the time and the attention to your child. Read less
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Sunnyvale schools — Rainbow Montessori School is located at 790 E Duane Ave, Sunnyvale CA 94085. 790 E Duane Ave is in the San Miguel neighborhood and 94085 ZIP code in Sunnyvale, CA Rainbow Montessori School is a Private school that serves grade levels PK - 6.
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