Montessori Education focuses on:

• respect for others and the environment
• self-esteem and self-confidence
• self-discipline
• coordination
• independence
• social skills
• emotional growth
• cognitive preparation

Curriculum of Preschool / Kindergarten Program:

• Language: Development of vocabulary, learning to read and write

• Mathematics: Learning to count and understand the mathematical concepts in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

• Practical Life - Development of neuromuscular coordination and independence

• Sensorial Exercises: Development of visual discrimination, refinement of the senses, preparation for the mathematical mind

• Music & Art
• Foreign Language: Chinese (regular school year)
• Science, Geography & History
• Physical Education & Yoga
• Educational Fun Local Family Field Trips
• AND of course, lots of fun!
• Montessori Method & Philosophy
• Curriculum Summary  |  Montessori Curriculum List (PDF)

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About Brilliant Kids Montessori Preschool in Carlsbad

Explore your child's fullest potential through the combination of Montessori and a Traditional Preschool/Kindergarten experience. Watch as your child grows intellectually and socially through this structured program. Program covers practical life, sensorial, language, math, botany, zoology, geography, art and music are all taught in a creative and fun way that your child will enjoy. Your child's positive learning experience is very important to us and each child is free to excel to their highest potential in this program.

The Montessori preschool classroom, or Brilliant Kids Preschool, is a “living room” for children. It is a Montessori School House in a homebased setting. Children select their work from among self-correcting materials displayed on open shelves; they work in specific work areas.

Over a period of time, the children develop into a “normalized community,” working with high concentration and few interruptions. Normalization is the process whereby a child moves from being undisciplined to self-disciplined, from disordered to ordered, from distracted to focused, through work in the environment. The process occurs through repeated work with materials that captivate the child’s attention. For some children this inner change may take place quite suddenly, leading into deep concentration. In the Montessori preschool, academic competency is a means to an end, and the manipulatives are viewed as “materials for development.”

Educational and fun field trips are scheduled for the children to participate, and parents are welcome to join us. Because of the smaller teacher/student ratio, more individual attention is given to your child. Children in this Montessori program have an opportunity to advance in their own comfortable pace. They can advance in their own comfortable pace, every child is unique. In most cases, Montessori children are more ready and advanced in many academic areas when they enter public/private elementary schools.

The school facility is licensed by the State of California. All teachers are CPR/First Aid Certified.

Amy Ma Chen - Program Director and Head Teacher
Montessori Primary Certified Teacher
North American Montessori Teachers Association, member
American Montessori Society, member
Doctor of Naturopathy, Candidate
Piano & Ballet, The Royal Academy of Music & Dance
International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
UCLA Certified Lactation Educator
La Leche League Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Training Administrator
Breastfeeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles
San Diego Breastfeeding Coalition
Quality Parenting Teacher for Parenting Classes
United States Green Building Council
National Realtors Association