WELCOME!
Located in Ballard’s Sunset Hill, Cinquegranelli Montessori has been serving families in north Seattle since 1989. We accept children age 3 to 6 years old and the school is open from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. from Tuesday to Friday.
Our program boasts some unique features:
- Focus on the Montessori philosophy and Italian language and culture
- Teacher-student ratio of 1:6
- Multi-age classroom
- Cozy home environment in a quiet neighborhood
- Onsite play area and frequent walks to nearby park
At Cinquegranelli we strive to create an environment where children learn at their own pace, guided by their intrinsic developmental needs. It is our responsibility to recognize those needs and to guide them to activities that satisfy their hunger for learning. It is our intention that each child becomes confident, creative, competent and respectful human beings.
Our work and philosophy are shaped by the pedagogic philosophy of Maria Montessori:
“… we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher’s task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment for the child. … Man himself must become the center of education and we must never forget that man does not develop only at the university, but begins his mental growth at birth, and pursues it with the greatest intensity during the first three years of his life.”
Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind, published in 1949
Our program boasts some unique features:
- Focus on the Montessori philosophy and Italian language and culture
- Teacher-student ratio of 1:6
- Multi-age classroom
- Cozy home environment in a quiet neighborhood
- Onsite play area and frequent walks to nearby park
At Cinquegranelli we strive to create an environment where children learn at their own pace, guided by their intrinsic developmental needs. It is our responsibility to recognize those needs and to guide them to activities that satisfy their hunger for learning. It is our intention that each child becomes confident, creative, competent and respectful human beings.
Our work and philosophy are shaped by the pedagogic philosophy of Maria Montessori:
“… we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher’s task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment for the child. … Man himself must become the center of education and we must never forget that man does not develop only at the university, but begins his mental growth at birth, and pursues it with the greatest intensity during the first three years of his life.”
Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind, published in 1949
