Our School

Uniquely different from traditional day care, Meadowbrook Montessori offers a child-centered curriculum fostering independent thinking. Since 2003, owner Johnnie Carney and school Director Barbara Muir strive to bring excellence to the community through the Montessori philosophy.

The school, housed in a renovated 1954 Snell family home, provides a carefully planned, stimulating Christian environment, which allows children to develop basic habits, attitudes, skills and ideas that are essential for a lifetime of creative thinking and learning.

The goals established for the children who attend Meadowbrook Montessori are to encourage a positive attitude toward learning:

"Love of Learning" - Montessori students develop an intense love of learning and almost "thirst" for more.

"Solid Self Esteem" - Montessori students develop self discipline through guidance of the teachers, who set the example for them and through the freedoms and limitations found in the classroom.

The Montessori philosophy also encourages the development of initiative, persistence and concentration. Meadowbrook Montessori serves children of all faiths, ages 12 months to 6 years old.

Our Mission Statement

Our goal is to provide quality alternative education for your child in a Christian environment through the use of the Montessori materials and the application of the Montessori philosophy. We are confident that by choosing our school, your child will be given the opportunity to think, create, and develop self-confidence in an environment that nurtures your child's natural desire to learn.

Our Philosophy

Dr. Maria Montessori believed that the goal of early childhood education should not be to fill the child with facts from a pre-selected course of studies, but rather to cultivate his own natural desire to learn.

In the Montessori classroom this objective is achieved in two ways; first by allowing each child to experience the enormous delight and satisfaction of learning by his own choice; and second, by helping him to perfect all his natural tools for learning so that his ability will be at maximum in future learning situations.

The Montessori materials have this dual long-range purpose in addition to their immediate purpose of giving specific information to the child during the most absorbent years between the periods from birth to the age of six. It is upon this philosophy that Montessori educators urge parents to make an investment in your child's education, while the absorbent mind is at its peak for spontaneous learning.