Though in separate buildings, ECEC and EAEC are one school—led by a unified team working closely together every day.
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The Montessori Theory of Development is woven throughout all of our learning programs. Click the button below to learn more!
City Garden has four levels—Primary, Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary, and Junior High—each with its own webpage showcasing its model and scope.
We offer comprehensive Academic Special Services through our SPED, Reading, and Speech Pathology Programs.
City Garden’s Primary program serves children ages 3 to 6 and provides the foundation for all future learning. In Montessori Primary classrooms, often called “living rooms for children,” students choose work from open shelves and engage independently with hands-on, self-correcting materials. Over time, they develop focus, coordination, and confidence.
The environment is divided into five core areas:
• Practical Life: Builds motor skills, coordination, independence, and social-emotional development through care of self and the environment.
• Sensorial: Helps children classify and describe sensory impressions—like length, weight, temperature, and color.
• Mathematics: Uses manipulatives to internalize concepts like quantity, operations, sequence, and memorization.
• Language Arts: Supports reading and writing through oral language, grammar, literature, and tactile tools like sandpaper letters.
• Cultural Studies: Introduces geography, history, life and earth sciences, art, music, and movement through integrated, hands-on experiences.
In Montessori, academic mastery is a pathway to personal growth—and every material is a tool for development.
City Garden’s Elementary program builds on the foundation of Primary, guiding children toward abstract thinking, imagination, and a deeper understanding of the world and their place in it. Montessori materials serve as tools for discovery—sparking curiosity and supporting the child’s growing ability to think critically, ask big questions, and synthesize complex ideas.
The curriculum is interdisciplinary and expansive, integrating:
• Arts, sciences, geography, history, and language, designed to match the elementary child’s imagination and capacity for abstraction.
• The Great Lessons, a series of connected stories that explore the origins of the universe, Earth, life, human beings, and civilizations—creating a framework for awe and lifelong learning.
• Formal scientific language and materials in zoology, botany, anthropology, geography, and geology, honoring children’s intelligence and interests.
• Timelines, charts, and visual aids that provide a conceptual overview and help organize learning across subjects.
• Mathematics presented through concrete materials that reveal connections between arithmetic, geometry, and algebra—encouraging discovery over memorization.
• Language arts that emphasize creative and expository writing, literature, grammar, etymology, research, and oral expression.
This rich, integrated approach supports the whole child—academically, socially, and emotionally—during a critical period of development.