Small Hands. Big Dreams. The Right Start.

Montessori Playcare is a nurturing early learning home for children ages 3 to 5, guided by authentic Montessori principles. Here, little hands explore, young minds grow, and every child builds confidence, curiosity, and kindness in a safe, loving environment.

Small Hands. Big Dreams. The Right Start.

Montessori Playcare is a nurturing early learning home for children ages 3 to 5, guided by authentic Montessori principles. Here, little hands explore, young minds grow, and every child builds confidence, curiosity, and kindness in a safe, loving environment.

Certified Teachers

Ages 3 to 5 Only

Nurturing Space

Hands-On Learning

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We Provide a Safe & Nurturing Environment Where Children Learn and Grow

Our Montessori approach honors your child’s natural curiosity. For ages 3 to 5, we create a loving space where independence blooms and learning feels like play.
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Build Confidence

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Love for Learning

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Safe Nurturing Care

Shahzad Khawaja

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Shahzad Khawaja, CPA is a corporate governance and enterprise risk management (ERM) leader with more than 25 years of global experience strengthening governance frameworks, transforming internal audit functions, and enhancing technology and cybersecurity risk oversight across complex organizations.
As CEO of Aiccounting Pros LLC, he brings deep expertise in corporate governance, internal controls, cybersecurity risk, and enterprise transformation, helping organizations build resilient, compliant, and technology-enabled operating environments.
Throughout his career, Mr. Khawaja has partnered closely with executive leadership, audit committees, and technology management to identify significant control gaps—particularly within IT general controls.

Our Teachers Do Not Stand in Front of the Room. They Walk Beside Every Child.

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A great teacher changes the trajectory of a child's life. Every educator at Montessori Play Care is trained in the Montessori method, certified in early childhood development, and deeply invested in knowing your child as an individual. Not as a grade level. Not as a seat number. As a person.

Our classrooms are multi-age environments where older children mentor younger ones, and teachers observe, guide, and introduce the next challenge at the exact moment your child is ready for it. Your child will never be invisible in this classroom.

Most Choicing

Our curriculum is designed to engage and challenge children at every stage

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Six Programs. Zero One-Size-Fits-All Thinking.

A Program Built for Every Stage of Early Childhood Growth.

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Toddler Discovery

The most critical developmental window. No wasted time. Just language explosion, sensory growth, and real confidence for children.

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Early Childhood Program

Brain builds its learning architecture here. We provide child-led inquiry, multi-sensory materials, and four daily learning areas.

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Primary Learning

Our Primary program produces confident readers, mathematical thinkers, and children who know how to sit with a hard problem.

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Language and Literacy Immersion

Language foundations begin early. By Primary, our children aren't catching up. They're already running ahead.

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Arts and Creative Expression

Creativity isn't play after work. It's how brains solve new problems. Arts, music, and drama build original thinkers.

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After-School Enrichment

School day ends. Learning doesn't. Coding, pottery, cooking, debate, robotics, inside the trusted Montessori Playcare environment. No anxiety

The Montessori Curriculum

Four core learning areas. Hundreds of hands-on moments. One child who leaves here genuinely ready.

Our sensorial exercises train your child to observe, compare, and make sense of everything around them through touch, sound, sight, smell, and taste. Using specialized materials like the Pink Tower and Rough and Smooth Boards, your child learns to isolate one quality at a time. Size. Weight. Texture. Dimension. This is how confident observation begins.

Montessori math starts with the hands, not the page. Through Number Rods, Sandpaper Numbers, and Golden Beads, your child builds a real, physical understanding of quantity, order, and the decimal system long before abstract symbols are introduced. The result is a child who does not just memorize math. They understand it

Language development at Montessori Playcare is built around how children actually absorb communication. Through the Movable Alphabet, Phonetic Object Boxes, and guided vocabulary lessons, your child builds phonemic awareness, learns to construct words, and develops the confidence to express themselves clearly. No drills. No pressure. Just language that grows the way it is supposed to.

English

Our English literacy exercises bring everything together. Oral fluency, phonics, early reading, and structured storytelling give your child a communication foundation that follows them into every grade that comes next. Our children do not arrive at kindergarten catching up. They arrive running ahead.

The Montessori Curriculum

Four core learning areas. Hundreds of hands-on moments. One child who leaves here genuinely ready.

Sensorial Exercises

Our sensorial exercises train your child to observe, compare, and make sense of everything around them through touch, sound, sight, smell, and taste. Using specialized materials like the Pink Tower and Rough and Smooth Boards, your child learns to isolate one quality at a time. Size. Weight. Texture. Dimension. This is how confident observation begins.

Language

Language development at Montessori Playcare is built around how children actually absorb communication. Through the Movable Alphabet, Phonetic Object Boxes, and guided vocabulary lessons, your child builds phonemic awareness, learns to construct words, and develops the confidence to express themselves clearly. No drills. No pressure. Just language that grows the way it is supposed to.

Mathematics

Montessori math starts with the hands, not the page. Through Number Rods, Sandpaper Numbers, and Golden Beads, your child builds a real, physical understanding of quantity, order, and the decimal system long before abstract symbols are introduced. The result is a child who does not just memorize math. They understand it

 

English

Our English literacy exercises bring everything together. Oral fluency, phonics, early reading, and structured storytelling give your child a communication foundation that follows them into every grade that comes next. Our children do not arrive at kindergarten catching up. They arrive running ahead.

Why Families Who Research Every Option Choose Us

We Are Not the Cheapest Option. We Are the One You Will Not Regret.

A Nurturing Environment Built to Trigger Learning

Educators Who Know Your Child by Name and by Nature

A Method Backed by 100 Years of Global Evidence

A Partnership With You That Does Not End at Pickup

3 Month First 20% OFF

Special Limited Time Admission

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Find out why Montessori Playcare students are future-ready.

Question Answer

Frequently Asked Question

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At its core, Montessori discipline is built on mutual respect, natural consequences, and skill building instead of punishments or bribes.
The essence of the Montessori Method lies in: observing, helping, presenting, rather than teaching or forcing.
A Montessori education, however, aims to help ADHD children understand their developmental disability to a point where they can permanently ease their daily symptoms through self-correction and self-understanding. alia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast
A Montessori classroom is built on three pillars: mixed-age groups, child-led learning, and deep focus. Instead of age-segregated classes, children stay together in mixed cycles, fostering a real sense of community.
Montessori schools typically do not assign traditional homework. This approach stems from the belief that children benefit more from unstructured time after school to play, engage in family activities, and pursue their interests

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Montessori preschool Summer Camp

Learn • Play • grow

A fun, engaging, and enriching summer where children thrive!

oPEN HOUSE

JUNE 1

AGE 3-6 YEARS

Activities:

Fine motor, gross motor letters, shapes, numbers, colors

JUNE 1- JUNE 30

MONDAY- FRIDAY

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

We provide a safe and engaging place where every child learns at his or her own pace in order to reach their potential.

For more program information and to schedule a visit please call or text (203) 917-5427

WHY CHOOSE US?

Safe and nurturing environment

Learn at their own pace

Engaging, hands-on learning experiences

Build confidence and independence

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