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Oakland, CA
Mountain Boulevard Preschool

Parents at this school would recommend this school to other parents.

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neighborhood: Redwood Heights / Skyline / Ridgemont ·  Telephone: (510) 482-2850  · Website: www.MTNBLVD.com

• Summary
• General Info
• School Philosophy
  & Day-in-the-Life
• Curriculum &
  Teaching Approach
• Quality of
  Teaching
• Home/School
  Connection
• Discipline,
  Health & Safety
• Ages, Schedule
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General Approach to Learning

	Play-based
	Play-based with some structure
	Predominantly teacher-led instruction
	Montessori
	Waldorf
	Co-op
	Reggio-Emilia

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Director's Comments

We feel a balance of developmental vs. structured curriculum is necessary for a child in this stage of their development.

Social Skills & Work Habits

OVERALL RATING (3.3)
This school has increased my child's:
Ability to listen and follow directions
Ability to sit still for longer periods of time
Ability to be a part of a group of children
Self-sufficiency and independence
Awareness of others’ feelings
Cooperation with other children

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Curriculum and Teaching Approach

	PLAY-BASED	PLAY-BASED WITH SOME STRUCTURE	MOSTLY TEACHER LED	NOT FORMALLY IN CURRICULUM	CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT
Language					Yes
Oral language	-		-	-	n/a
Nursery rhymes, poems, songs	-	-		-	n/a
Storybook reading	-	-		-	n/a
Emerging literacy skills	-		-	-	n/a
Cognitive Development					n/a
Math and number sense	-	-		-	Yes
Time & space	-		-	-	Yes
Sci. reasoning/physical world	-	-		-	Yes
Music	-	-		-	Yes
Visual arts	-		-	-	Yes
Physical activity	-		-	-	Yes
Other subjects taught	Our primary focus is on math and language development, as well as exposure to other languages, in preparation for elementary school.				n/a

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Director's Comments

We balance the structured nature of the Montessori curriculum with a child's need to explore, investigate and experiment cognitive activities necessary for human development.

Parents' Comments

Parent #1
Practical, language, mathmatics use the montesorri tools for some free expresiion and oging at your own pace...everything else is teacher led. Except playground time...they can be kids there....and only there. comment on the next section: This school has not increased my child's anything- luckily my child has good focus, learning ability, even natured, kind, aware etc. and is absorbing new things there. I wouldn't credit the school for increasing my child's ability- it was all there before starting here- it has just developed with age.

Parent #2
I"m not too familiary with the approach for curriculum. Mostly because I haven't shown an interest seeing that my child is developing well and meets my expectations, i.e. at 3 knows alphabet, colors, numbers and even knows them in another language.