Where Education Meets Fun

Foundation for the Future

Kinder Kids Montessori is an inclusive school located in beautiful Weaverville, California, the heart of mountainous Trinity County. We are childcare professionals who provide children from all backgrounds an education worth giving while embracing each child's unique strengths and interests. Kinder Kids is a Montessori dedicated to providing better education to all our county's children, regardless of family income, funded through a mix of tuition, grants, and community programs.

Kinder Kids Montessori is an inclusive school located in Weaverville, California, in the heart of Trinity County. We are dedicated childcare professionals providing high-quality education to children of all backgrounds, recognizing and celebrating each child’s unique strengths and interests.

Our Montessori school is committed to offering better education to all children in our county, regardless of family income. We are funded through a combination of tuition, grants, and community programs.

The Montessori Planes of Development

Dr. Maria Montessori identified distinct three-year planes of development, during which children experience unique cognitive growth. Young children absorb information effortlessly, while older children develop individual and group ethics. In mixed-age classrooms, students naturally learn from and teach one another, guided by specialized teachers.

At Kinder Kids Montessori, we offer:

Infant Program (3 months - 18 months) – A nurturing environment where infants explore through sensory experiences, develop motor skills, and build trust with caregivers.
Toddler Program (18 months - 36 months) – Designed to foster independence, language development, and social skills through hands-on activities and guided exploration.
Primary Program (3 - 6 years) – A three-year curriculum (Preschool, Transitional Kindergarten, and Kindergarten) that builds confidence, critical thinking, and a strong academic foundation. Children may join at any stage and graduate prepared for first grade.

Our classrooms provide a warm, interactive, and hands-on learning environment that fosters self-motivation, responsibility, and a love for learning. With the guidance of our dedicated teachers, children are free to explore their senses, develop independence, and gain the security and consistency needed for lifelong success.

Kinder Kids Montessori Philosophy

The Montessori System is a child-centered approach focusing on freedom within limits and a carefully prepared environment. It offers a wide range of materials, experiences, and lessons that support intellectual, physical, and social development.

Montessori believes that self-motivation is the key to learning. In the classroom, teachers prepare the environment and guide students, but it’s the child who drives their own learning by engaging in chosen tasks.

At Kinder Kids Montessori, we provide an alternative for children aged 3 months to 6 years in Trinity County. One unique feature of Montessori is the use of mixed-age groups. This helps build close, lasting relationships, with older children mentoring younger ones, developing leadership and nurturing skills, while younger children are motivated to model good behavior and take on more challenging work.

The Outcome

Dr. Maria Montessori developed the principles of Montessori education over many years of experimentation and observation. They are based on respect for children’s learning process. The Montessori principles are just as much about understanding how children learn as they are about defining how Montessori is different from traditional education.

Independence

The child is able to choose his or her own “work” freely, and complete the “work” in concentration and repetition. and return the “work” to its proper place, prepared for the next child to use.
Confidence and Competence

The child’s self-perceived successes are far more numerous, that his or her self-perceived failures. The child is capable of self-correcting their work upon observation, reflection, or discussion.
Autonomy

The child can accept or reject inclusions in another child’s “work” or “work” group with composure.
Intrinsic Motivation

The child is drawn to continue working for the apparent pure pleasure of doing-so. The child will achieve a particular competence, and will move on to revel in mastery by showing their peers.
Ability to Handle External Authority

The child is able to accept the “ground rules” of the group as appropriate in his or her interactions with the other children. The child, while distant from the Teacher, is able to function as if the Teacher is nearby.
Social Responsibility

Independent and autonomous persons are always part of a group and must attain independence and autonomy through participation in group activity. The loss of these qualities by one of a group is loss for all. Students will attain independence and autonomy, and at the same time, to develop social responsibility.
Academic Preparation

Academic preparation entails activation and cultivation of inherent powers and processes through which the learner becomes a supplier of meanings or of things-meaningfully-known. Academic skills are essential to learning and knowing, not the aim of learning and knowing. Students acquire academic skills and them in to learn.