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Use these quick links and simple routines to keep communication clear and your child’s school information current.
Check Procare regularly
Use the Procare app for daily classroom communication, messages, activity updates, and notices from your child’s teachers. Make sure notifications are enabled and that all approved caregivers use the invitation connected to their own account.
Keep records up to date
Tell the school promptly when contact information, emergency contacts, authorized pickup adults, health details, or other required records change. Respond to document requests so your child’s file remains complete and current.
Start with the right channel
Use Procare for routine classroom questions and daily updates. For time-sensitive matters, enrollment questions, account help, or changes to official records, contact your campus office directly rather than relying only on an app message.
Not sure who to ask?
Your campus office can route your question to the right teacher or administrator. For urgent same-day information, please call.
Small everyday choices can build lifelong independence.
Montessori principles work best when children experience trust, consistency, and meaningful responsibility across both school and home.
Create child-sized spaces
Keep a few useful materials within reach so your child can choose, use, and return them independently.
Invite real participation
Folding cloths, setting the table, watering plants, and preparing food all build coordination and confidence.
Offer time and trust
Leave room for effort. Children develop persistence when adults resist stepping in too quickly.
Read together every day
Warm, unhurried reading builds vocabulary, imagination, connection, and a lasting relationship with books.
A Montessori family reading guide.
These suggestions are a starting point, not a strict age-based list. Follow your child’s interests, revisit favorites, and let the pleasure of reading together lead the way.
Books for toddlers and young listeners
- Can You Hop? — Lisa Lawston
- The Going to Bed Book — Sandra Boynton
- Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb — Al Perkins
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar — Eric Carle
- Are You My Mother? — P. D. Eastman
- White Rabbit’s Color Book — Alan Baker
- Hippos Go Berserk! — Sandra Boynton
Books for early readers
- Elephant & Piggie series — Mo Willems
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish — Dr. Seuss
- Go, Dog. Go! — P. D. Eastman
Picture books for children
- The Flying Dragon Room — Audrey Wood
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel — Virginia Lee Burton
- The Mysterious Tadpole — Steven Kellogg
- Flotsam — David Wiesner
- The Story of Ferdinand — Munro Leaf
- Where the Wild Things Are — Maurice Sendak
- Knuffle Bunny — Mo Willems
- Stellaluna — Janell Cannon
- The Lorax — Dr. Seuss
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type — Doreen Cronin
Books for parents and educators
- Positive Discipline — Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.
- The Montessori Method — Maria Montessori
- The Absorbent Mind — Maria Montessori
- Tools of the Mind — Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong
- A Child’s Work — Vivian Gussin Paley
- The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The most powerful reading strategy is beautifully simple.
Read often, let your child see you enjoying books, and make story time a warm point of connection rather than a performance.
- Follow your child’s interests—even when that means reading the same favorite again.
- Pause for conversation, prediction, laughter, and questions instead of rushing to finish.
- Keep a small, inviting selection of books accessible and rotate them occasionally.
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