The Montessori Jewish Day School will inspire a lifetime of love and excitement for learning in an environment that fosters respect for oneself, the community, and the world. Montessori Jewish Day School is an inclusive, pluralistic, egalitarian school dedicated to instilling respect for the individual and the community. MJDS provides an engaging Jewish educational experience that embraces Jewish practice diversity, integrates Hebrew, and responds to a child's natural search for spiritual and intellectual growth. MJDS educates its students toward becoming knowledgeable and committed Jews and responsible citizens who love Judaism, Jewish culture, and Israel.
Order and repetition are the foundation of a toddler's sense of safety. They make it possible for the child to take risks and to cement new learning. Best haBambini is designed with this need in mind: the room's organization, the flow of our day, the rhythm of Jewish time, Montessori materials themselves cater to a toddler's unique need for order and repetition.
At MJDS, every student has a part to play in our school community. It is common to see older students helping the younger ones with their shoes or including them in outdoor play. Each toddler will find their niche in a place where they can learn and grow from Beit HaBambini through Middle School.
Best HaBambini is a place where a toddler's favorite mantra – "I do it!" – becomes a reality. Tiny vessels, lowered fixtures, and diminutive tools enable the smallest children to take care of their own needs and even the needs of others. Skills such as getting dressed, pouring drinks, and wiping up spills nurture the independence that will start your toddler on a lifelong journey of self-motivated Jewish learning and picking flowers for the Shabbat table and smelling the herbs, and digging in the dirt. Toddlers can touch, smell, and even taste their natural surroundings during our outdoor playtime in the MJDS Sensorial Garden.
Movement is crucial to brain development. That is why our classroom is set up to incorporate movement into every activity. Whether building a tower, learning to pour, dancing during Kabbalat Shabbat, or putting coins in the tzedaka box, toddlers at Beit Habambini are always in motion.
Early adolescence is a time of significant change. There is tremendous physical, cognitive, and emotional growth. The child takes on forming a personal identity, becoming an adult, and creating relationship patterns. Neurological changes are vast and allow new ways of thinking and relating to the world to develop.
Our curriculum has been carefully designed with the adolescent in mind, involving individualized instruction and opportunities for students to develop their ideas and values in conjunction with current events, home life, and community. The MJDS Middle School takes a thematic, integrated approach to studies, with chunks of time dedicated to leadership opportunities, self-exploration, social and ecological projects, business internships, and adventure trips.
Our Casa classrooms cater to the needs and delights of children in this age group. Learning takes place through the exploration of the materials in the room. Materials are, for the most part, presented individually or to small groups. All of the activities in Casa are designed to develop the child's indirectly
