With these goals in mind, each child is guided in development at FIVE LEVELS:

• Physical: potential learning problems can first be spotted in a young child’s ability to control movements.

• Emotional: young children need patience and guidance to learn to control and express their feelings.

• Intellectual: young children are collectors of knowledge (they absorb it from their environment).

• Mental: to know, to experience, to use all known information for experiments and problem-solving.

• Spiritual: develops strength of character, revelation of true personality, and desire to be of service to others.

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-Class Notes from Southwestern Montessori Training Center session 1981-82.

General Information
Montessori: A Modern Approach, by Paula Polk Lillard
The Inner World of Childhood, by Frances G. Wickes
No Contest, by Alfie Kohn
In Their Own Way, by Thomas Armstrong
Something More, by Jean Grasso Fitzpatrick
Endangered Minds, by Jane Healy
The Geography of Childhood, by Gary Paul Nabham and Stephen Trimble

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Primary
The Secret of Childhood, by Maria Montessori
The Absorbent Mind, by Maria Montessori
A Parents Guide to Child Discipline, by Rudolf Dreikus
Miseducation, by David Elkind

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Elementary
The Hurried Child, by David Elkind
Between Parent and Child, by Haim Ginott

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Adolescence
From Childhood to Adolescence, by Maria Montessori
All Grown Up With No Place To Go, by Dadvid Elkind
Between Parent and Teenager, by Haim Ginott

The Montessori approach evolved over many years as the result Dr. Maria Montessori’s work. The Montessori Method is used now with children of all ages. At LHM we focus on the preschool and kindergarten aged child. The preschool aged child displays an inherent tendency towards discovery, cooperation, kindness, and nonviolence. It is our challenge to promote all of these characteristics to extend them into later childhood and adulthood.

​Teachers are trained to challenge each child to extend fully his/her unique style of learning. Our classrooms are characterized by calm, orderly, focused and respectful learning behaviors. We believe that respect breeds respect and creates an atmosphere within which learning is facilitated.

​Current brain research suggests that learning environments that are stimulating and relaxed; intriguing and safe for exploration facilitate learning in children. In our classrooms children manipulate everything in their environment and therefore learn by doing. Through movement and touch, children explore, manipulate, and build storehouses of impressions about the physical world around them and move these learning experiences into concrete thoughts.

​Many exercises, especially at the early childhood level, are designed to draw children’s attention to the sensory properties of objects within their environment: size, shape, color, texture, weight, smell, sound, etc. Children begin to observe and appreciate their environment, which is key in helping children discover how to learn.

​We try to help children fall in love with the process of focusing their complete attention on something and mastering its challenge with enthusiasm. The environment of the Montessori class is a learning laboratory in which children are allowed to explore, and discover.

Finding and choosing the best school to provide child care is a very important and difficult decision a parent has to make for their children. Lake Hills Montessori Bee Cave will not only provide a place for your child to learn and grow, it will prepare your child for the next step in their lives. Research studies show that Montessori children are well prepared for later life academically, socially, and emotionally. In addition to scoring well on standardized tests, Montessori children are ranked above average on such criteria as following directions, turning in work on time, listening attentively, using basic skills, showing responsibility, asking provocative questions, showing enthusiasm for learning, and adapting to new situations.

Lake Hills Montessori Bee Cave provides a Montessori education for children from Pre School to Kindergarten (2 – 6). Our Young Primary program starts at the age of 2 and is where you child will start to build a foundation that will begin their love of learning and where they will be able to explore their many interests and strengths. The Primary program starts at approximately 2 years and 9 months and is where your child will continue their Montessori education of understanding not just the concrete but the abstract concepts. Montessori emphasizes and encourages the use of all five senses for learning, rather than  just reading, listening and watching. Children in Montessori classes learn at their own, individual pace and according to their own choice of activities from hundreds of possibilities. Learning is an exciting process of discovery, leading to concentration, motivation, self-discipline, and a love of learning.

Lake Hills Montessori Bee Cave is a private school located on a large campus in the Bee Cave area. Our school offers an education that meets the specific needs of young children, and through the Montessori philosophy, helps them develop ways of thinking and solving problems that will stay with them through time. Our children plant, care for and harvest our organic garden, from which they often get their afternoon snack! Our huge shaded playground has a custom made playscape, two play houses and room for the children to play and explore.