Liahona Orchard valley Montessori

Our Teachers

Leah Crisostomo is a Montessori Trained teacher with 17 years of experience. She has her Bachelor’s Degree in Primary education, and a Masters Degree in Special Education from the Philippines. After moving to the United States, she continued working with children and expanding her experiences, and got her Montessori Teaching Credentials in San Francisco.

Testimonials

Ms Leah is an outstanding teacher. I saw huge improvement in my son during her classes. Loved that she gives personalized attention to every kid in the class. She was in close contact with me to keep me updated about my son’s progress, she suggested books to support my son’s learning especially reading process. My son loves her much. As a parent, you can trust her with no doubt. She is the best teacher that we had. Thank you Ms Leah for everything that you do for my son.

Ms. Leah was previously my daughter’s kindergarten teacher. My daughter had such a worthwhile and fulfilling experience with Ms. Leah as her teacher. As a dad, I couldn’t have asked for anything more. Ms. Leah truly cares about kids and was very influential for my daughter’s intellectual and emotional growth and development. My daughter’s experience with Ms. Leah is something I will always remember and forever be thankful for!

We have had a great experience with Ms. Leah. She is so loving and caring. She always takes good care my kid. In addition, we are very impressed that how much of my kid is learning from her. Last but not least Ms. Leah is really good at communicating with the kids and parents. I highly recommend this place!

Teacher Leah was my kindergarten teacher. I vividly remember how passionate she is in her profession and way she cares for her students and how patient she is with them is something I will forever look up to her for. I now without a doubt that she can do the same to her future students in this school :))

Ms Leah is an outstanding teacher. I saw huge improvement in my son during her classes. Loved that she gives personalized attention to every kid in the class. She was in close contact with me to keep me updated about my son’s progress, she suggested books to support my son’s learning especially reading process. My son loves her much. As a parent, you can trust her with no doubt. She is the best teacher that we had. Thank you Ms Leah for everything that you do for my son.

Teacher Leah taught me during my toddler years. I can never forget how she nurtured and cared for me when I was young and was about to discover things in life. She played a role in making my childhood fun! Truly, Liahona Orchard Valley Montessori would also do the same thing. It will nurture and care for its children. It will develop them to reach the fullest of their potential. During toddler years, they will surely have fun while learning and discovering different aspects in life – in cooking, in making friends, doing fun mathematics, and more! 🤩

NEW We are really grateful for the great care of our niece receives at Liahona Orchard Valley Montessori. Ms. Leah is attentive and responsive to our concerns. The team of her are all education professionals who take their jobs seriously. Our niece has attended other preschools, but has grown the most during at Liahona Montessori. We send her there with great confidence that she will be taught and cared for with respect in a clean, safe environment. I highly recommend this Preschool.

Philosophy

At Liahona Orchard Valley Montessori, our onboarding philosophy is Shaping Minds, Maintaining Excellence, Allowing Growth, Reaching Dreams, and Training the Brightest. Complementing this, our additional philosophy is to inspire and produce skilled and brightest minds in the future. We also aim to foster the intellectual and emotional development of children grounded on values and experiences, highlighting the importance of learning and discovery through experiences.

Location

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510-200-4839

About our program

Liahona Orchard Valley Montessori is dedicated in shaping minds, maintaining excellence, allowing growth, reaching dreams, and training your children’s potential. It offers quality education allowing children to discover while they learn. Liahona Orchard Valley Montessori provides hands-on learning, self-directed activities, and collaborative play to develop children’s skills equipped in real life experiences. . The Montessori approach allows children to learn through understanding, rather than through being told from understanding your child is able to develop confidence and joy in learning.

What special about the program?

1. All equipment is accessible to your child and is always available to the child.

2. Your Child will have personal responsibility for their work: this require awareness of the needs of others avoiding dangerous or hurtful action, keeping the equipment and resources tidy, putting things away after using them. being a good models for the younger children, developing a true social awareness.

3. Beauty and Harmony: this aspect too often ignored by those who focus too much on the content learning. Montessori felt strongly that the environment must be aesthetically pleasing to encourage learning and concentration. Too many display can distract the children if they are properly related to its interests. it reflects the manners in which the Montessori classroom is calm and activities are self directed.

Our Activities involves the five Montessori Areas which are:

• Practical life these are everyday activities in all aspect of life that which help the children the sense of belongings and it also helped them to developed their fine motor skills, care of self, care of environment, and grace and courtesy.
• Sensorial children uses their senses to explore in their environment. All Montessori materials are designed to help children develop difference, order and to broaden and refine senses it helps their Visual Discrimination, tactile sense, Auditory sense, Olfactory Sense And Gustatory Sense.
• Mathematics our math concepts begins from concrete materials to abstracts and from simple to complex. The Math areas are organized into 5 groups:
  • 0-10 lesson Plan introduction of numbers were all children feel the exact quantity of what number they are talking.
  • Decimal Lesson Plan children have chance to explore concrete materials by introducing the golden beads that will represent units tens hundred and thousands.
  • Paths to Abstraction children begins to solve problem solving with paper and pencils.
• Language a Montessori preschool classroom emphasizes spoken language of linguistic expression. Reading is taught phonetically as the child ready.

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Admissions

Join the Liahona Orchard valley Montessori community in three easy steps:

1. Explore our website

We’ve provided information about our philosophies and offerings to help you decide if our program may be right for your family.

2. Tour our program

Come see what makes Liahona Orchard valley Montessori unique. If we are currently hosting tours, you can request or schedule a tour at the top of this page. If we are not currently hosting tours, you’ll see a “Request Info” button at the top of this page; if you submit your information using this button, we will notify you when we start host tours again in the future.

3. Submit an Enrollment Application

If you would like to enroll, please submit an application at www.wonderschool.com/liahona-orchard-valley-montessori-6243/apply – note that we require tours for all prospective families. Please do not submit an application if you have not visited the program.