At Wimberley Children’s House, we take an approach to education that relies heavily on student choice, exploration, and hands-on learning with real tools and experiences. Therefore, you can expect your child to come home messy—we regularly use art materials, gardening tools and equipment, water, and other messy things.

Additionally, we use our environment to explore the natural world and use “risky play”—activities that are challenging physically and have some risk involved. These include such things as jumping, climbing, or using tools such as rakes, shovels, carts, child-sized woodworking materials and tools, scissors, punchers, and other classroom tools, and food preparation tools. Risky play can help children develop resilience, problem-solving skills, and a sense of belonging and is essential to our operation.

Finally, at WCH, we take traditional Montessori seriously. We prepare the classroom with a large variety of materials and opportunities, observe, and modify the environment based on our observations. Therefore, as a general rule, we will not prepare many whole-group lessons, units, crafts, and other things that are common in many preschool settings. We will communicate with you regarding your child’s progress through our recordkeeping platform, Transparent Classroom.

Wimberley Children’s House wants to partner with our parents and community by offering learning opportunities in topics that help us grow and work together for the benefit of all. We will offer at least a one-hour monthly learning opportunity to our community on topics like using Montessori practices in the home, child development, brain development, specific areas of the Montessori classroom, and others. We ask that each family commit to at least one hour monthly dedicated to learning with us—either live in person or through zoom, prerecorded talks or other events.