My son is an advanced 3 year old and this school gives him great exposure to many skills he normally wouldn't get until kindergarten. He is already writing letters, sounding out words and reading. As a result he is very engaged and happy at school. And the full half hour of playground time includes many
... Read more extras such as tricycles and sledding. Several reviews mention this is not a 'true Montessori' but without any specifics. Everything I see and hear in the classroom is in accordance with Montessori's principles. Children are empowered to do things for themselves and are carefully shown how. Order in the classroom makes the children feel secure. Focus on the child s relationship with nature is emphasized. And the weekly written update from his Montessori-certified teacher provides the specific works my son engaged in. All these works are true Montessori. My son is positively thriving at Community Montessori. Read less
Posted by a parent on 09/23/09
This school is great especially I love his class teacher. My kid is 3, and in preschool level. I am so happy to see significant improvement in his concentration level after the learning process through montessori method in his class. I understand that concentration is very important in his later learning
... Read more process. Besides, he learns more good discilpline from his school learning system: Behave himself well in many basic manners; offer himself to help in some simple housekeeping work; caring and sharing with his peers. Read less
Posted by a parent on 01/06/09
This school is just excellent. We are immigrant, my daughter was born in the US, but English was her second language. She started to the CMS at age 3. First she learned English fluently and her teacher says that her English now much advanced than native English speakers based on grammer, richness of
... Read more vocabulary and etc. She learned read and wright when she was 4, even we did not teach at home anything. It will be long list to write down everything here, but she is so happy to be there, as a result we are happy too. She is florishing every single day and I can see it everyday. She is the only child and she learned to share, respect, frinedship, properly communicate and be polite to herself, her friends, her environment, school personal, and her teachers. I strongly recommend to everybody. Read less
Posted by a parent on 12/12/08
My son attended CM pre-k last year, and it was a very negative experience. CM is touted as the only literacy-based preschool in Boulder County, as opposed to play-based preschools . Does that mean there should be no play? No socialization, even, from 7:50a.m. 10:00a.m. when an incredibly reserved
... Read more circle time begins? I assume it depends on the teacher, but we found it pretentious, and though they may discuss diversity alot, children must fit a mold. My son is a boy, not a mini-man. We pulled him out and he is flourishing at his current pre-k, and he finally feels safe at school. Read less
Posted by a parent on 12/02/08
Not a true Montessori environment. Our son attended for a full year half-day of preschool - we really tried to make it work because CM was so highly recommended. Everything was very strict. If you don't do things a certain way - it's wrong. I think if we could have switched to a different teacher, CM
... Read more would have worked, but that was not allowed. We were so excited when we got in through BVSD open enrollment, but soon found that because we were low-income our family required more paperwork, goal-setting and conferences (which the teacher clearly didn't enjoy). There was not very much parent-teacher communication about what was going on in the classroom. Students were given about 10 mins for recess, right before coming home. Children deserve to have fun - the next year we chose Sunflower Preschool (private), cut household expenses (cable, phone) to pay tuition. Read less
Posted by a parent on 12/02/08
My daughter has been at Community Montessori for 4 years now. The school is incredible and she loves it. It is a full-fledged Montessori school (all teachers are fully Montessori certified) and the families have worked hard to raise the extra $25,000 per classroom to get Montessori materials on a public
... Read more education budget. My daughter has thrived in this multi-age classrooms and self-directed work of Montessori. THe teachers are very innovative in motivating and personalizing work for our daughter. CM is a close knit school. Almost immediately, the teachers, principal and office staff knew our daughter and us by name. The school celebrates diversity and holds 25% of slots for low-income students. Unlike other open enrolled schools, this is a very diverse environment. But, it is very hard to get into unless you enroll as a 3 year old. Read less
Posted by a parent on 11/19/08
My son stayed at CMS just for 2 months, last fall. He was 3 years old and was in a private Montessori school the whole year before. He didn't like CMS and was not wanting to go to school since October started. We had some problems with the teacher too, and, as my son didn't like the school and we were
... Read more unhappy there too, he went back to the private school. They have too many kids per teacher and the helpers are not so good. The Principal didn't care about losing a kid and didn't try to convince us to stay. Read less
Posted by a parent on 10/16/08
This school claims to be montessori, but many of their practices are not. The teacher my family had experience with was very unfriendly, and discriminating. The principal never took any proper actions to solve any of the problems that happened at the school. My child has been in montessori for 7 years
... Read more and In my experience this was the absolute worst school I have ever dealt with. Read less
* In 2007-2008 Colorado used the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) to test students' skills in reading, writing and mathematics in grades 3 through 10 and in science in grades 5, 8 and 10. The CSAP is a standards-based test, which means that it measures how well students are mastering specific skills defined for each grade by the state of Colorado. The goal is for all students to score at or above proficient on the test.
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Boulder schools — Community Montessori School is located at 805 Gillaspie Dr, Boulder CO 80305. 805 Gillaspie Dr is in the Table Mesa neighborhood and 80305 ZIP code in Boulder, CO The school district for Community Montessori School is the Boulder Valley School District R E2. Community Montessori School is a Public school that serves grade levels K - 5.
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