A 60-Year Legacy as New Jersey's Premier Montessori School
Serving the Community & Surrounding Areas
New Jersey's ORIGINAL Montessori School
Our Montessori-certified teachers create a peaceful and secure environment which cultivates in each child a lifelong love of learning and a sense of one’s place in the world. A child’s natural instincts and the qualities and the skills needed to progress on to the elementary years and throughout life are developed through our multi-age classrooms and practices in grace and courtesy unique to the Montessori philosophy.
American Montessori Society
Accredited by and full member of the American Montessori Society with non-traditional Montessori age groupings.
National Council for Private School Accreditation
We are accredited by the National Council for Private School Accreditation.
Schedule Options
We offer full-day, half-day and part-week programs.
Parent-Teacher Collaboration
and an actively-involved
Christopher Academy Parent Association (CAPA)
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Montessori Monday: The Dressing Frames
In most Montessori classrooms, you'll find a standing rack with a number of curious frames hanging on it. They are typically wooden squares surrounding two panels of cloth. One frame includes panels of cloth to close together with a zipper. Another frame is closed by...
Montessori Monday: The Grammar Symbols
Montessori teachers introduce grammar lessons in the Early Childhood classrooms, first as sensorial experiences that link the nomenclature of grammar to physical experiences. The initial Noun Lesson, for example, is simply a series of small slips of paper labeled to...
Montessori Monday: The Stamp Game
Throughout the prepared environment, the Montessori materials follow a careful sequence, leading children through experiences that become increasingly complicated and which build upon previous experiences, both in the content children are learning and in the...
