Little Flowers Montessori

Hi
My daughter is going to Little Flower Montessori from over 21 months. She will graduate in few months as she will be starting kindergarden (wow cannot believe that !) .
She has gone to other preschool before this one and I like this school better. The staff and teachers are hardworking and they genuinely care for the kids. They give good food and they do put in effort to prepare healthy meals for the kids. The menu is displayed for us to see. I see that they start preparing food from early morning. My daughter has developed interest in food after she started school. Thanks to the lunch lady (sorry don’t know the name) .
The classrooms are spacious. My daughter has developed lot of confidence in talking with new people and in general she has shown good improvement. I know Ms Madhu, Ms Anjali, Ms Reza, Ms Esha. I like all the teachers. They answer our questions. They provide extra help to needed kids. They do nice art and craft activities and parents are encouraged to attend the school programs .
We are satisfied with the school and their programs. It’s a happy place for the kids. We are going to miss this school .
One thing i should mention is the worksheets that are given are sometimes not appropriate like today i saw «circle endangered species «for a 4 yr old child really ??? also continent names and geography for 4 yr old kids is not needed at this age. They have lot of time to learn them .
I have raised that in the parent meeting but as they said they have no control on the worksheets that are given as it is given from the management .
but overall i like this school and the teachers and staff put in sincere efforts. thank you.

My daughter is graduating from Little Flowers Montessori, Stevenson this year. She loves her school and I am sure she is going to miss her teachers and friends. First of all I would like to say that the directors and office staff are very warm and welcoming. The teachers over here are really good. I appreciate their efforts in nourishing the kids. They focus not only in academics but also in music, dance performances, public speaking, reading skills, arts and crafts and many more. My daughter was very shy at first but the teachers (Miss Madhu, Miss Anjali, Miss Raiza and Miss Isha) have helped her in gaining self confidence and now I could see a huge difference. The class rooms are very neat and tidy and they have a huge play ground for kids. Food served here is fresh and nutritious. I am sure most parents will agree to this. I would definitely recommend this school!!!

I scheduled a school tour today at 3:30pm. When I was almost there, I kind of said no to myself already, because the school location has so much traffic and hard to park. Anyway I was 15minutes late and I felt so sorry to be late. When I finally got into the school, I saw 2 receptionists in the front office with a 3 – 4 years old girl. I appologized that I was late. Lady A told lady B she could leave, and she would help me with my school tour. Then lady B left happily. I was so grateful that even though I was late, she could still help me. Then lady A said, we usually give only 10min grace time, since you are more than 10min late and I have to take care of this girl, you need to reschedule. There are ppl coming for 4pm school tour and I can’t give tour to both of you at the same time.
That’s it. No welcoming attitude, no brief introduction of the school, no information flyers/​menu or whatever I could take home as reference. I was speechless. This is the way she would like to help me. Why you have to take care of that girl? Where are other teachers? Then why did you send lady B away? Even though we can’t do the tour, can’t you at least briefly tell me a little bit about your school? I’m a working mom. I actually asked for 2hours leave today for this tour. Then it’s totally wasted. She doesn’t understand parents and she doesn’t care about their business.
This is the 6^th daycare I visited in this district and the worst customer service. Maybe it’s a good school as other Unilocalers said, but I didn’t see it. I told lady A then I would just pass it. Hell no I will never send my son to a school with staffs like you.

Our son has been here for a year and a half — from just before age 2 until 3.5. He loves it, and we’ve been extremely happy with them.
Here are some of the things we like:
* The #1 thing we like is that the staff is *fantastic*. The directors and office staff are the most warm, friendly people in the world, and the teachers are loving, patient, and kind with all of the kids.
* They teach lots of things — letters, numbers, healthy food, cultures around the world, things that go, geographical features, under the sea, etc. — but they’re not overly strict or academic, they leave lots of time for fun, arts & crafts, and playground time. 3-​year-​olds do not need homework!
* They have flexible pick-​up and drop-​off times. So many places in town don’t open until 8am and close at 5:30 pm. That’s fine for people who work in town or for stay-​at-​home parents, but when both parents work, it’s much nicer to have the option to drop off as early as 7am and pick up as late as 6pm. (We don’t leave him there that long — we usually drop off early and pick up early.)
* They use some Montessori techniques but they’re not too strict about it. We like that. The teachers seem to have a lot of flexibility.
* The food is freshly prepared there on-​site and the kids love it. They have kid-​friendly food but it’s not junk.

My daughters both attend Little Flowers Montessori-​Stevenson and we are SO very happy with the school. Our five year old started there when she was three, and our three year old has been there about 8 months. Little Flowers is not a pure Montessori (which at one point we tried – this is so much better) – the kids do worksheets, crafts and other structured activities. Things I really love:
Most of all: the teachers. I honestly cannot say enough about the teachers, especially Miss Raizza and Miss Isha, who are the two teachers in Jasmine (ages 3 – 4). They are funny, kind, joyful, appropriately firm and great teachers. My 2 children are very different kids, and they equally love/​d being in Jasmine. The teachers in the pre-​K/​K room are also excellent and really focus in on reading and math, with amazing results, but the kids are also having fun – lots of crafts, etc.
Other stuff that is great:
1. The facility: brand new, totally secure (fingerprint entrance), lovely large outdoor play area, always perfectly clean, including a spotless kitchen.
2. The food: fresh and delicious and NOT the gross stuff at other schools. My kids have expanded their culinary horizons eating at LF.
3. The directors/​staff: super responsive and actually know the kids. Very understanding when you have the occasional working mom fail and pick up your child 5 minutes before they close.
4. The holiday performances and special occasions: LF has Christmas and Halloween musical performances that are just awesome – the kids and teachers put a lot of time into them. There’s also a pretty involved science fair, and fun days with a bounce house, a bird show, a puppet show – lots of fun things and special days.

I am very satisfied with this school. The teachers are very nice and patient, the enviroment is clean and organized, their curriculum and programs are excellent. They offered hot lunch and according to my kids the lunch is delicious.
I have 5yr boy and 4yr girl. They went to the same classroom last September. Just in three months, I see big improvements from both of them in reading and maths. In october, they had a very nice Halloween performance. They performed three songs with nice dancing movements. It’s hard for me to believe they can learn such complicated songs and dance in just one month. In December, they have a even better Christmas performance, with more songs and dancing movements. I don’t know how their teacher managed to teach them the performance along with the academic learning. Last month, they had bird show. Two weeks ago, they had puppet show. This week, they organized a science fair, where kids learn how to make a little science presentation in a fun way.
Both my kids were in Kindercare for two years before they transfered to here. Now I regret, I didn’t put them here earlier where I can save lots of money. Kindercare charged almost $ 300/​wk. If kids want to learn phonics or math, parents need to pay $ 125 extra for each class per month. However, in little flowers, the academic teaching is all included in their programs, there are no extra charge. Kindercare has the bird or puppet show, but it only in the summer time, and parents need to pay $ 65 extra for those shows. The Winter Gala of Kindercare is terrible, can’t even compare with the show my kids did in the little flower, where you can tell how much teacher put effort in.
Early this month, I took my daughter to take an assessment test in Challenger school. We want to enroll her to their Kindergarton program in the fall this year. They gave her a test of their pre-​K programs. As we all know, Challenger is very famous for their challeging academic teaching, I was worried that my daughter would fail. But in fact, she did excellent. We never have time teach her at home, we know she must learn all those words and maths in the little flowers.
We appreciate nice programs of little flowers, and we strongly recommend sending your kids to here.