Birch Lane Montessori Program

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Birch Lane Montessori Program The Birch Lane Montessori Program is a public Montessori program within the Davis Joint Unified School District.

The Birch Lane Montessori Program is a high quality Montessori program in a public school setting. Currently the Birch Lane Montessori Program has an enrollment of 240 students in grades K-6, with 10 Montessori classrooms. It was developed in 2000 through a collaborative effort among parents, teachers, and administrators of the Davis Joint Unified School District and members of the Davis Montessori community. Montessori education stresses a whole child approach, focusing on children’s cognitive, social, emotional, and physical needs. Teachers use individual and cooperative learning strategies, while tailoring lessons and activities to children’s abilities. Montessori education emphasizes teaching and learning from both peers and the teacher through multi-age classrooms and a combination of student- and teacher-initiated activities. By offering freedom within a structured setting, children learn to think critically, ask provocative questions, and adapt to new situations. The Birch Lane Montessori curriculum encompasses the following areas:
• Language arts, reading, literature
• Math and geometry
• Cultural subjects, including botany, zoology, history, geography
• Practical life
• Sensorial education
• Enrichment, including art, music, physical education, gardening, and computer lab
• Respectful relationships, compassion, environmental awareness, and multi-culturalism.

Bead chains are part of the mathematics curriculum in our Montessori classrooms. These chains help provide a tactile and...
10/21/2026

Bead chains are part of the mathematics curriculum in our Montessori classrooms. These chains help provide a tactile and visual component to learning counting, skip counting and multiplication.

Davis teachers are currently at impasse in negotiations with the district. If you’d like to learn more, please join them...
10/19/2026

Davis teachers are currently at impasse in negotiations with the district. If you’d like to learn more, please join them for a family and community forum on Tuesday, October 20th at 5pm, King High School - 635 B St, Davis, CA 95616.

Seasonal Lessons are important in our Montessori classrooms. Students created a diagram of apple trees through the seaso...
10/17/2026

Seasonal Lessons are important in our Montessori classrooms. Students created a diagram of apple trees through the seasons to celebrate the fall harvest.

Transfer jobs play an important role in our K/1 classrooms. Students are learning so much with these simple movements. A...
10/14/2026

Transfer jobs play an important role in our K/1 classrooms. Students are learning so much with these simple movements.

As part of the Practical Life curriculum, students use tools to transfer different materials from one vessel to another. This builds coordination, hand strength and fine motor skills

Join us for some fall fun at the Annual Birch Lane Fall Festival!! There will be free crafts and games, along with food ...
10/13/2026

Join us for some fall fun at the Annual Birch Lane Fall Festival!! There will be free crafts and games, along with food and pumpkins available for purchase. Don't forget to make a scarecrow for the scarecrow breakfast competition! We hope to see everyone there

Cultural studies includes studying our solar system! This job explores the phased of the Moon. 🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑🌘🌗🌖🌕
09/29/2026

Cultural studies includes studying our solar system! This job explores the phased of the Moon. 🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑🌘🌗🌖🌕

With Montessori jobs, students are often working on multiple things a once. This K/1 job works on counting, number recog...
09/22/2026

With Montessori jobs, students are often working on multiple things a once. This K/1 job works on counting, number recognition and hand and grip strength.

Working in collaboration is often part of the Montessori Classroom. Students in one of our 2/3 classrooms are working on...
09/15/2026

Working in collaboration is often part of the Montessori Classroom. Students in one of our 2/3 classrooms are working on a cultural studies project identifying continents and oceans.

Flexible classrooms let students work at tables, as well as, on job mats on the floor. Here a student is exploring the b...
09/11/2026

Flexible classrooms let students work at tables, as well as, on job mats on the floor.

Here a student is exploring the big bang as part of the 2/3 cultural studies curriculum. Students sequence the story and the pictures.

Metal insets are usually found in our K/1 classrooms. Students get to trace shapes and color them in. It might seem like...
09/08/2026

Metal insets are usually found in our K/1 classrooms. Students get to trace shapes and color them in. It might seem like an art activity, but they are actually building muscles and foundational principles for handwriting as well.

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1600 Birch Lane
Davis, CA
95618

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+15307575395

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