Our Healthy Classroom

Food preparation is part of the life skills curriculum at Montessori del Mar and this involves care of self and the environment. The children learn about nutritious, healthy foods throughout the year, including preparation, serving and cleaning-up of the daily snack.

Parents are asked to pack minimally processed foods for lunch and anything packaged or containing refined sugar is not welcome in the classroom. The lunchboxes around the classrooms are filled with vegetables, sandwiches fruit and salads.

Parents are asked to pack only healthy, balanced meals in reusable containers that the child can manipulate by him or herself. The learning Center strives for a zero waste lunch.

All snacks during the day are parent contributed and include organic nuts, fruits and vegetables.

We take pride in our healthy classroom!

Our Montessori Classroom

As with traditional Montessori classrooms, Montessori del Mar is clean, orderly and inviting. It is not only this way when the children arrive in the morning, but remains this way throughout the day with the help of the students. They take an active role in caring for their classroom with chores, cleanup and overall respect for their surroundings.

The children participate in several “life skills” each day. They clean up after eating, wash dishes, wash tables, dust, wash windows, sweep the floor and many other fun activities. This may not sound fun to the average adult, but unlike adults who focus on the end product of cleaning, children delight in the activity itself.

Montessori “life skills” materials are child sized, yet fully functional. These activities, like the rest of their work, encourage the students to learn through all five senses and not only through the more traditional approach: listening, watching and reading.