Our Programs
INFANT THROUGH ELEMENTARY
From infancy through age twelve, eBridge offers a continuous Montessori experience designed for each stage of childhood. As children grow, they move into thoughtfully prepared environments that offer familiar hands-on Montessori materials while responding to their changing abilities, interests, and developmental needs.
A Typical Day
Infant Program
6 weeks–15 months |Discovering Their World
Long before children can tell us what they need, they are already taking in the world around them – developing through movement, relationships, exploration, and an emerging sense of self.
The eBridge infant environment is carefully prepared to support this extraordinary period of development. Children are given freedom to move and explore safely, opportunities to participate in their surroundings, and responsive care that respects their individual rhythms.
The infant environment supports each child’s individual development through movement, responsive care, exploration, and increased participation.
MOVEMENT AND EXPLORATION
- Floor based movement and exploration
- Space to roll, reach, crawl, and move
- Low, accessible shelves and materials
- Materials chosen for developing abilities
INDIVIDUAL CARE AND SECURITY
- Individualized feeding and sleep schedules
- Care coordinated with home routines
- Responsive guidance throughout the day
- Consistent routines that support security
CONNECTION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Language woven throughout daily care
- Opportunities to see, touch, hear, and explore
- Close relationships with trusted adults
- Growing awareness of self and surroundings
Toddler Program
15 months–2 years 9 months | Independence Takes Root
Toddlers are driven to do more for themselves. They want to move, communicate, participate, and make sense of an increasingly interesting world.
The eBridge toddler environment is prepared for this powerful period of growth. Child-sized materials, purposeful activities, freedom of movement, and consistent routines give children meaningful opportunities to practice new skills and experience the satisfaction of doing things for themselves.
Everyday experiences give toddlers meaningful opportunities to practice their developing independence, language, coordination, and care for their surroundings.
INDEPENDENCE AND CARE FOR SELF
- Dressing and undressing
- Washing and drying hands
- Eating independently
- Participating in toilet learning when ready
PRACTICAL LIFE & THE ENVIRONMENT
- Preparing and serving food
- Returning materials after use
- Caring for classroom materials
- Child-sized furniture and materials
- Materials arranged within reach
LANGUAGE & MOVEMENT
- Conversation and vocabulary throughout the day
- Singing, music, and dancing
- Fine- and gross-motor activities
- Opportunities for purposeful movement
- Books, poems, and rhymes
Primary Program
2 years 9 months–6 years • Pre-School through Kindergarten
Purposeful Work Builds Confidence
The Montessori Primary program spans the years commonly known as Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten. During this stage children are ready to take on increasingly complex work, make choices with greater intention, and develop the ability to sustain their attention.
The eBridge Primary environment gives children long, uninterrupted periods to work with purposefully sequenced Montessori materials – at their own pace. Through repetition, practice, and increasing responsibility, children strengthen academic foundations while developing confidence in their own abilities.
Children develop strong academic foundations by working with materials they can see, touch, manipulate, and understand – allowing memorization to occur naturally.
PRACTICAL LIFE
- Care of self & environment
- Food prep & everyday tasks
- Grace & Courtesy lessons
Purposeful, everyday work that builds independence, coordination, concentration, and care for the community.
SENSORIAL
- Color, shape, size, texture & sound
- Sorting, matching & grading
- Observation and classification
Specially designed Montessori materials help children refine their senses, notice relationships, and develop the ability to classify and organize their world.
LANGUAGE
- Spoken language & vocabulary
- Preparation for writing
- Writing and emerging reading
Language develops through conversation, precise vocabulary, and hands-on materials that prepare children’s minds, eyes, and hands for writing and reading.
MATHEMATICS
- Quantity, counting & numerals
- Place value & math operations
- Foundations for abstract reasoning
Hands-on Montessori materials make quantity and numbers tangible before progressing toward abstract mathematical thinking.
LEARNING BEYOND THE CORE AREAS
Geography, history, biology, botany, zoology, art, and music help children make connections across their work and develop a deeper understanding of the world.
GROWING TOWARD FIRST GRADE
Montessori Primary is designed to give children the unique opportunity of remaining in a familiar classroom community as they grow. Rather than starting over each year, children build relationships with and learn from teachers who know them well, and take on increasingly complex work, greater responsibility, and leadership over time.
By the time children complete Primary, they have built the academic foundations, independence, confidence, and classroom experience needed to enter first grade ready for what comes next.
Elementary Program
6 years–12 years | Curiosity Expands Into Understanding
Elementary children are ready to look beyond what they can see and ask bigger questions about how and why the world works. Their growing ability to reason, imagine, and make connections opens an extraordinary new period of learning.
The eBridge Elementary environment builds on the independence developed in earlier years while inviting children to explore ideas across disciplines. Through Montessori’s Cosmic Education, students encounter big stories and questions that spark investigation, research, collaboration, and increasingly independent thought.
As children grow, learning becomes broader and more interconnected. Core academic skills develop alongside research, collaboration, problem-solving, and opportunities to examine questions in greater depth.
LANGUAGE & LITERACY
- Reading comprehension and analysis
- Writing and composition
- Grammar and word study
- Research and presentation
MATHEMATICS
- Concrete materials moving toward abstract thinking
- Arithmetic and mathematical operations
- Fractions, decimals, and geometry
- Problem solving and mathematical reasoning
CULTURE & SCIENCE
- History and geography
- Biology and earth science
- Physical science and experimentation
- Art, music, and cultural studies
INDEPENDENT INQUIRY
- Research inspired by individual interests
- Collaborative projects and discussions
- Planning and completing longer work
- Presenting and sharing discoveries
GROWING THROUGH ELEMENTARY
Montessori Elementary is designed as a six-year journey, generally organized into Lower Elementary (ages 6–9) and Upper Elementary (ages 9–12). Within these mixed age communities, younger students learn alongside more experienced classmates while older students deepen their understanding through collaboration, responsibility, and leadership.
This continuity allows children to build on previous learning rather than beginning again each school year. Over time, they take greater responsibility for managing their work, pursuing questions, collaborating and applying what they learn across subject areas. The continuity of the Elementary years allows teachers to know children deeply and support growth over time rather than treating each school year as an isolated experience.
Learning Begins With the Big Picture
Montessori Elementary education begins by giving children a framework for understanding the world and their place within it. Through Cosmic Education, interconnected stories introduce the development of the universe, life, human beings, language, and mathematics – sparking questions that lead children into deeper research across the curriculum.
Lesson One
THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE
Explores the formation of the universe, stars, sun, and Earth.
Lesson Two
THE COMING OF LIFE
Traces the emergence and development of life on Earth.
Lesson Three
THE COMING OF HUMANS
Introduces humanity as thinking, communicating, and working beings.
Lesson Four
THE STORY OF COMMUNICATION IN SIGNS
Explores the development of language, writing, and the alphabet.
Lesson Five
THE STORY OF NUMBERS
Traces the human development of numbers and mathematics.
The World Becomes Part
of the Classroom
When answers or deeper understanding require resources beyond the classroom, students may plan Going Out experiences to gather information, visit community resources, and continue their investigations in the wider world.
Students also participate in physical education at the local YMCA. Music, chorus, and Spanish are all additional opportunities to move, create, communicate, and discover new interests.
Beyond the Classroom
EXTENDED CARE
Before & After School
Extended day options give families greater flexibility while allowing children to transition within the familiar eBridge community.
ENRICHMENT
More Opportunities to Explore
Enrichment opportunities give children new ways to explore interests beyond their daily Montessori work.
SUMMER AT EBRIDGE
Care Beyond the School Year
When the school year ends, children can continue familiar Montessori routines alongside outdoor play, creative activities, movement, and seasonal experiences for children from infancy through Primary.
