Extended Care Program

Pines Montessori School offers Extended Care (before and after school) to currently enrolled students. Our three extended care classes (one for toddlers, one for primary children, and one for elementary children) offer students a relaxed environment in which to engage in free play, arts and crafts, story time, and enriching group interactions.

Our goal is to establish a warm, nurturing atmosphere that offers creative, stimulating, and enjoyable activities for the children. Materials in this environment include quality toys, art materials, dress-up clothes, blocks, games and puzzles. While the classroom materials are not typical of a Montessori classroom, the program is consistent with Montessori principles: freedom of choice in activities is bounded by the responsibility to make positive, healthy, and safe choices individually and as a group.

Extended Care Hours

Morning children usually engage in quiet activities as they prepare for their day. As part of our morning care program, we offer fruit, fruit juice and/or milk to students arriving before 7:45 AM.

After school there are opportunities for long stretches of outdoor play, and possibilities for movement activities, other indoor games and activities, and story reading. An afternoon snack is provided.