Montessori Children’s House of Denver

Both of my children have been students at MCHD. My oldest is now in kindergarten at a language-​immersion school. I feel that she was well-​prepared for the transition by her experiences in her preschool community at MCHD. My youngest is now in the toddler program, in Miss Thea’s capable, loving hands. I am floored by what she has accomplished since starting this fall. She is just 2 ½ and knows nearly all of the alphabet and knows the sounds most of them make as well. She can count to ten, knows her colors, is a whiz with puzzles, and most remarkably, my formerly unsocial daughter has made little friends and enjoys having the most adorable conversations with them. I work with her at home and try to get her as much social contact as possible, but I know that Thea is responsible in large part to her success. She was wonderful with my older daughter as well. When the time came to enroll our little one into part-​time schooling, there was no question of where/​who she would go to. Miss Thea at MCHD. The Montessori environment is the perfect one for the curious, spirited toddler/​preschooler like my daughter.
My daughter will be moving up to primaries in the fall and we have re-​enrolled her without reservation. We are confident in Miss Katie’s ability to create the kind of learning environment in which our little girl will grow and flourish, just as Miss Michelle did for our oldest. We are very excited for our baby girl. Already she shows such an independent spirit, it will be exciting to see that develop further.
We attend the Mayfair campus and are very happy there. The classrooms are spacious and works are presented in such a way that children are eager to explore and get their hands on everything. I strive to recreate that hands-​on environment in my own home and to use Montessori language at home.
MCHD seems to attract top-​notch teachers and take care to offer classrooms that are updated frequently.

A few weeks ago I attended MCHD’s «Learning in Spades» groundbreaking event, showcasing their newest campus in Stapleton and LOVED the following things:
–The passion the founder and teachers have for the school, methodology and the students. The love of what they do is easily recognized through these types of events and their interaction with parents and the local community :)
–Their «kid station» they had set up! Unpainted bird houses, paper construction hats, tool shaped bubbles and good old fashioned «dirt» (aka pudding, oreos and gummy worms!) for everyone to enjoy.
–Community involvement; not only at the Birch Street location, but now at the new Stapleton campus. MCHD had invited the local families & businesses to the event, and displayed an art installation of shovels to show the support/​appreciation for the surrounding community.
–The welcoming staff in general. Not having kids of my own (but attending the event with others who did!) i didn’t know what to expect and came to find big smiles and open arms as i approached the groundbreaking site.
All in all, the groundbreaking event was a success and made me think an institution like MCHD, is just another step in the right direction for childhood education.
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When I recently found out I was pregnant with my own son, my husband and I were living on the east coast. Knowing that there was only one school on the planet that my little guy would attend (Montessori Children’s House of Denver), we actually moved back to Denver to raise him here and can’t wait to get him started in this great program! Of course there were other factors involved in our move, but MCHD was at the top of our list of reasons to return to Denver as new parents.
MCHD was one of the pioneer Montessori schools in Denver, and has been bringing amazing education to the community for almost twenty years. All of the teachers at MCHD are impeccably trained in Montessori, and while individual styles may invariably differ, every teacher I have ever come into contact with has been so passionate about the work that they are doing and so dedicated to the children.
I have had a long relationship with the school, at different times working as a nanny for families that attended MCHD, working as a volunteer there, and working as an assistant teacher. Over the years, I have witnessed so many amazing transformations of students through the classrooms. I have seen as the owners and staff have dedicated themselves to the continual investment in an amazing program, never resting on any laurels as Montessori gained in popularity and new schools, both public and private, moved into town. I have seen so many students thrive in those classrooms. In fact, many of those students have loved MCHD so much that they have come back as teenagers and young adults to teach at the school that they remember so fondly. Students and families who passed through the school years ago still point to it as the formative foundation for their children’s success. I have been told that the school often gets letters of thanks from alumni students and families often.
Before I sat down to write this post, I was flabbergasted to see one of the previous reviews. Either we’re talking about two completely different schools, or the reviewer has a malicious vendetta that has nothing to do with the quality of the program, the teachers, or any experience I and so many others in our community have had with MCHD. I know there are legions of others out there who’d agree.
In short– fabulous school, fabulous teachers, fabulous classrooms. Now I just have to wait the remaining months until my son is actually old enough to go there himself!