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Welcome to the Infant-Toddler Community. We offer full-day Montessori care for infants and toddlers year round. Our campus and classrooms are beautiful, clean, and well-designed, but more importantly, our staff is experienced and our lead teachers are Montessori-certified.
NOW ENROLLING INFANTS & TODDLERS
COVID Enrollment process:
For future enrollment information and questions, please email infant@hopeacademy.com. After reviewing our enrollment information, we are happy to arrange a virtual tour with you. Limited in-person tours, subject to a health screening, are available for families who are ready to enroll.
Please feel free to view this video about our school and Montessori practices.
https://vimeo.com/348676034/a04665c6c0
WE HAVE REOPENED: We are implementing modified drop-off/pick-up procedures, increased sanitation efforts, and distancing strategies. We look forward to being with you soon!
COVID Guidelines for Families
A Typical Day...
Policies
April13.pdf
June08
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First Day of School
Monday, August 17, 2020
School Picture Day
Friday, September 11, 2020
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 When
you tour our Infant Toddler Community in
Creve Coeur school, you will quickly recognize that the
Montessori approach is about self-mastery. You will see children
at ease, purposeful, curious, and confident. They are not perfect.
They are not always serious or quiet, but they are very involved
with being children and learning to cope with the world. The adults
who care for them are loving and respectful of each child's individuality.
Campus
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- Infant-Toddler
Programs
(6 wks-3 yrs)
- We
understand the infant and toddler's need for activity
and for independence. Careful, daily observation of
our young children guides us in personalizing the
environment to best meet each child's needs.
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- A
Secure Place To Play — Playgrounds
- Our
playgrounds surround the building and are accessible
from the outside door of each classroom. Play areas
are fenced in with locked gates and these areas are
hidden from public view. Each classroom has a garden
that the children plant and care for and harvest.
Playgrounds offer active, large motor, experimental
play. Swings, sand, riding toys, climbing toys, bridges,
bars, the tree house and balls comprise some of the
developmentally appropriate playground activities.
Play is supervised and playgrounds are inspected on
an ongoing basis for safety.
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- Student-Teacher
Ratio
- We
have one adult to each three children in our infant
program from 6 weeks to 15 months. Our toddlers, approximately
15 to 36 months, have one teacher for each six children.
Each classroom is led by a Montessori Educator
certified by the American Montessori Society for the
ages of birth to 3.
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The Infant-Toddler
Community is located off North Mason Road on a hill just above,
and adjacent, to the Hope Montessori Creve Coeur preschool.
The school is
designed to serve infants as young as 6 weeks and toddlers to the
age of 3 years.
Like all Hope
Montessori Academy schools, the Infant-Toddler Community classrooms
and play areas are designed to feel more like home than a classroom.
No where is this more evident than in the infant area where our
smallest children are allowed to play, stretch, grab and explore
on specially radiant heated floors.
A Montessori
education is preparation for life. Our work supplements the parent's
work in helping the children develop self-calming, self-control
and self-confidence. Instead of looking at the child's behavior
as what they are, we look at who the child may become. Optimism,
positive attitudes, and hope for the future are essential to the
success of children and our culture.
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