2025-2026 Enrollment-Registration is Open to add a few friends to the current group. Thank you for emailing for immediate response to klahanieschool@gmail.com for parent policy folder review, schedule your tour and obtain our registration link. Thank you.
Type of Program: AMS Montessori Antibias Certified and AMS School Accredited Candidate
Contact: klahanieschool@gmail.com
Ages Served: 2.5yrs-6 yrs Kindergarten, Teen Mentor-Internship (VHS credit), CES (collaborations open), Teacher Para Aide positions
New families must schedule a 20minute visit before enrollment to registration is complete. klahanieschool@gmail. Before scheduling your visit, thank you for taking a moment to check over the completed areas below to honor the time it takes for tours and the enrollment process to registration. Thank you for taking the necessary time to read over all our policies in the documents below for clarity and commitment of all parties.
*Tours: 1:40pm, 20 minutes, date(s) confirmation that work for your family. Tours are scheduled Monday-Thursdays.
Prior to tours, families are requested to read over all pertinent enrollment documentation.
Klahanie School certifies that the school meet all applicable federal, state, and local laws, standards, and regulations including, but not limited to, codes and safety standards as required by local and civil authorities and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Scholarships/financial aid: Please specify in your scholarship/financial aid form if you receive WA state childcare subsidies, and Klahanie School monthly tuition amounts will be adjusted as best we can to obtain those appointed funds.
Special Needs: Yes (CES preschool and island specialist collaborations available, email to inquire if we have enough enrollment for Para Teacher Aides in class with us)
Meals: Provided by families
Holidays: Runs with VISD calendar
Buses: Yes, CES/ district students can be arranged.
2026 CES Summer Students from VISD ECEAP Developmental Preschool Email early to inquire about summer 2026–very limited spots and dependent on teacher aide staffing.
Description of Klahanie School Programming: AMS Accreditation candidate Early Childhood Education where we as a class utilize and state mandated rotations between three-site classrooms (the garden one) as our prepared environments to care for, and explore our ever changing world. The Montessori and ABAR pedagogies are actively engaged in daily practices of Inclusion and Equity with exposure to Peacemaker monthly units, Mindfulness Social Emotional supports and healthy communication practices. Klahanie preserves the love of learning developed by students, offering trusting space for aspects of freedom and fun to develop at each learning level in prepared environments. Side-by-side learning engagement with each student is provided. Additional education is offered through movement, music, language introductions (ALS, French and Spanish), sciences and many connected community moments with monthly Specialists. Families are supported with consistent communications, x2 conferences, and family education-community opportunities. Enrollment is based on the multi-age student Montessori pedagogy for student successes and whole care. The three year considerations is requested from the Montessori multiage ABAR pedagogy from multiyear school format (Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia, ABAR) serving children in windows of developments (birth-6yrs, 6-9, 9-12, etc). If there are variances requested, please email the school to explore. Transfer student/family, exceptions are always explored when requested and are equitably assessed. https://amshq.org/Families/Why-Choose-Montessori
Please look for more information when 2026-2027 registration begins January 1, 2026.
September 2026-June 2027: Multiage Class 8:30-12:30pm
Optional: PM Childcare 12:30-3:30pm (site two)
Optional Summer 2027: Five Weeks June-July2027Summer enrollment open to Klahanie School enrolled students.
Optional Multiage Summer Learning Lab 8:30-12:30pm PM Childcare 12:30-3:30pm (site two)
Reflections of the week and moving forward in commitment as a Montessori ABAR (Anti Bias Anti Racism) Multiage Early Education School:
Our Klahanie School daily practices will remain focused on building daily, as a collective group: Respect, Equity, Justice, Peace & Collaboration to Harmony and Love. This week we decided as a staff to begin a Gratitude Sharing when friends go beyond what is asked of them to help and support another in school and environment, and when that is reported and/or observed, a note will be created for our “kindness mailbox” we will read at the end of the day during our daily gratitude round, and send home with friends who can share with family about their Kindness Shared.
The habitat of kindness we create here at Klahanie School is our commitment to our daily fluency practice, one step at a precious time to showcase the kindness, explorations of the past, cultures locally, nationally and globally and ancestors, the thoughtfulness science of observations and movements to celebrate when a person sensory intakes and thinks about the larger group to share, to collaborate, to find joy and fun together into innovations and independent society co-created in the classroom and hopefully imprinted neurological pathway to utilize further down the learning road. We are our own lab for peace building one sensory, learning moment and movement at a time.
We as a school celebrate you all and the love you share with your children and the community we collectively tend together, and are here to shore up in times of angst or uncertainties. Our school commitment is to have consistency and presence of kindness, empathy, availability and warmth. The focus is on the now and on the youth of all age scope for consistent commitment to serve and support.
Dr. Maria Montessori quotes: Education is the best weapon for peace.
Everyone talks about peace but no one educates for peace. In this world, they educate for competition, and competition is the beginning of any war. When educating to cooperate and owe each other solidarity, that day we will be educating for peace.
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.
Our care of the children should be governed not by the desire to ‘make them learn things’, but by the endeavour always to keep burning within them the light which is called intelligence.
Children are so responsive that if you treat your child with kindness and consideration he too will be kind. If you let him pursue his own little affairs and interests undisturbed, you will find that he will be less inclined to disturb yours.
Sense of Self
A Montessori class is composed of students whose ages typically span 3 years. Ideally, students stay with the class, and teacher, for the entire cycle, forging a stable community and meaningful bonds.
It is common to see students of different ages working together. Older students enjoy mentoring their younger classmates—sometimes the best teacher is someone who has recently mastered the task at hand. Younger students look up to their big “brothers” and “sisters,” and get a preview of the alluring work to come.
As children mature in the Montessori classroom over the 3-year period, they understand that they are a part of a community where everyone has their own individual needs, but also contributes to the community. Children exercise independence, but are also given opportunities to work with their peers and to support others when they are in need.
Developing independence and pursuing one’s own interests in the context of a caring community fosters a strong sense of self in each student, and encourages pride in one’s own a unique individuality.
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
~The Lorax
“It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.”
~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“As a child, I used to visit the point where the water bubbled up from the belly of the earth to form a stream. I imagine that very few people have been lucky enough to see the source of a river.”
~Dr. Wangari Maathai
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