Embrace the Opportunities of Our Primary Program
Rebecca Lingo • February 17, 2025

A Nurturing Environment with Personalized Learning


We know children at this age acquire academic skills easily when the environment is carefully designed for them and learn most effectively when their experience allows them to make discoveries. Our teachers prepare and present lessons that lead to the child’s understanding through activities that are real, meaningful, and purposeful. Every activity lays a foundation for the next. Expert teachers work with children individually or in small groups at key developmental moments. Each child works with guidance at his or her own pace to feel both sufficiently challenged and successful. Our extraordinary learning materials, coupled with the guidance and observation of graduate-level trained teachers and their assistants, carefully guide children to acquire skills related to language, mathematics, science, geography, music, and art. The Montessori school day is not limited by fixed periods and stations for each subject. The child is inspired to explore and repeat the work as often as necessary for mastery. 


Balanced Lifestyle


Learning in the classrooms is coupled with daily outdoor recess throughout the school year, laying the groundwork for healthy and active lives. We aim to ensure every child leaves this program prepared for the next level, whether that is a traditional first-grade or our Elementary program.


It is encouraging to see how the Wheaton Montessori School Preschool and Kindergarten program provides a harmonious and peaceful environment where the curriculum focuses on the individual needs of the child, fostering self-esteem, inner discipline, and a passion for lifelong learning. In this week's blog, we will explore what our Primary Program offers.


Current families can sign up for their Primary Classroom Observation by clicking on the below links. 



Prospective families with toddlers and children under 4 are encouraged to sign up for a school tour to explore the advantages of our programs, which lay the essential foundation for our Elementary and Adolescent Community Programs. Priority enrollment will be granted to those who enroll before March 15. Our waitlist for kindergarten-9th grade for Fall 2025 is currently closed. Please check back in April to see if the waitlist is open then. Individual tours will only be offered for kindergarten through 9th grade if the waitlist is open.


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Academic Materials Explained: The Flat Bead Frame

By Rebecca Lingo • December 1, 2025
Discover how the Flat Bead Frame transforms big-number math into a hands-on journey toward abstraction and true mathematical understanding.
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Our Anchors of Love and Wisdom: Grandparents and Grandfriends

By Rebecca Lingo • November 24, 2025
To all the grandparents and grandfriends in our lives, with deepest gratitude: Thank you for being our family’s anchor, for your steady love, your wisdom, and for helping not just our children and adolescents, but us as parents and teachers feel supported. You are more than relatives; you are part of our community’s village. You are living bridges between today’s children and the deeper wisdom of experience. You are the unconditional love we need as grandchildren and are the support that we need as parents. Thank you. We see you holding a steady hand through the messy, emotional, and unpredictable work of raising children and adolescents. When one cries, whines, rebels, or acts out, thank you for not leaping to worst-case conclusions. You have seen the cycles, weathered the storms, and understand how often childhood’s turbulence is normal and simply requires time. Your calm confidence reminds us to trust the process. We are grateful. You embody calm truths. You offer a presence that affirms even when the young ones puzzle us or the adolescents forget “important” things. Having played this game before, you offer a comforting confidence in each child, adolescent, and young adult. You believe in us and our dreams. You know that children grow, heal, learn—and that today’s discomforts often resolve into tomorrow’s strength. Thank you for the meals you cook, the stories you tell, the adventures you lead, the rides you offer, the educational choices you support, the tears you soothe, the self-doubts you ease, and perhaps most of all, the patient witnessing of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood unfolding. You show us, grandchildren, caregivers, parents, and teachers alike, that we are not alone. Thank you for being keepers of continuity and reminding us that a struggle today is full of promise, young humans becoming who they are meant to be. Because of you, we are reassured that someone believes deeply in who we will each become. You accept us in our imperfections as we grow, and you show us how to live with grace. We are so grateful for all of you, our neighbors, chosen relatives, and family by bond and by love. Thank you, grandparents and grand friends. Your perspective is a gift beyond measure. During our annual Grandparents’ and Grandfriends’ Day on Tuesday, November 25, at Wheaton Montessori School, we honor the grandparents and grandfriends who have touched our lives with their love, wisdom, and stories. This special day celebrates the generations who inspire, guide, and shape our children with their experiences and care.