Fairbanks Montessori School

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Fairbanks Montessori School Our mission is to provide children with exceptional Montessori education. Serving children ages 3-6 in the Interior since 1965; state licensed.

Fairbanks Montessori Association, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, operates Fairbanks Montessori School.

"The children love to do these things [practical life activities] for themselves" - Maria Montessori Food preparation le...
10/06/2026

"The children love to do these things [practical life activities] for themselves" - Maria Montessori

Food preparation lessons build skills in executive functioning, concentration, fine motor development, grace and courtesy, and vocabulary. Also, in food prep, such as with banana slicing, students divide a whole into parts.

Food prep involves a carefully sequenced series of steps and builds an independent child who can confidently prepare a snack.

Steps (first taught to the student by the Montessori teacher)

-Put on an apron
-Wash hands
-Get the tray from the shelf
-Sit down & prepare food
-Plate the food (use toothpicks)
-Offer friends the food
-Clean up & wash dishes when done
-Place the work back on the shelf
-Take off apron

Our beautiful classrooms, intentionally prepared."Just as we have to prepare a special environment for sport, like a ten...
09/29/2026

Our beautiful classrooms, intentionally prepared.

"Just as we have to prepare a special environment for sport, like a tennis court if we are to play tennis, the child must be given the means for the kind of exercise which is necessary for his life." Maria Montessori, The London Lectures

The beauty of the integrated Montessori curriculum. 🌎 A four year old's painting of South America, completed over severa...
09/19/2026

The beauty of the integrated Montessori curriculum. 🌎

A four year old's painting of South America, completed over several days.

The strands of the Montessori curriculum weave together - geography, language, art.

Students develop fine motor skills, concentration, executive function, and patience and discipline, as big work like this takes time.

In an uncertain world, we give young children the tools for concrete mathematical understanding. Whatever the future br...
09/13/2026

In an uncertain world, we give young children the tools for concrete mathematical understanding.

Whatever the future brings, our goal is to build disciplined thinkers who can relate quantity and symbol, units and their places, sequencing, how square roots form, and then apply these skills to helping our world.

And yes, primary children ages 3-6, taught by Montessori-certified Lead Teachers, are having these types of math lessons daily!

Pictured: a 4 year old student begins this semester by connecting the printed symbol to the physical quantity of associated beads, while also building an understanding of hundreds, tens, and ones units.

"Tracing the letter, in the fashion of writing, begins the muscular education which prepares for writing." - Maria Monte...
09/09/2026

"Tracing the letter, in the fashion of writing, begins the muscular education which prepares for writing." - Maria Montessori

As many technological advances have occurred since Dr. Montessori's time, we see more than ever the value of teaching writing. Children are worthy of having space and time to learn, practice, and master the skill of writing.

In our fully implemented Montessori primary school, we teach letter tracing and eventually writing to very young children. We capitalize on this unique period when their minds are forming rapidly and their fingers are learning new motor patterns more readily than at any other time of life.

"It seemed important to us that the children should be able to count up to one hundred and to carry out the exercises co...
09/02/2026

"It seemed important to us that the children should be able to count up to one hundred and to carry out the exercises connected with this operation, which unites a rational study of the primary numbers with simple reckoning, especially since a rational approach to arithmetic was given rather than a system based on rote memory." - Maria Montessori

(Photos show students' math work these past couple weeks. Children are working mathematical concepts such as the concrete representation of quantity, sequencing numbers to 100, and decimal system work with ones, tens, and hundred units.)

Thank you Lotto Alaska for counting on and supporting local non-profits! We are so grateful for your financial contribut...
08/26/2026

Thank you Lotto Alaska for counting on and supporting local non-profits! We are so grateful for your financial contribution to our mission, which is to provide children with exceptional Montessori education.

(Photo shows a preschool student at Fairbanks Montessori building teen numbers - understanding quantity, preparing for all the math lessons that will come later.)

"Education, therefore, of little ones is important, especially from three to six years of age, because this is the embry...
08/23/2026

"Education, therefore, of little ones is important, especially from three to six years of age, because this is the embryonic period for the formation of character and of society." - Maria Montessori, The London Lectures

Snapshots from the first week of school.

Students are having lessons from their teachers - learning sounds, practicing skills for writing and finger strength, discovering the properties of the pink tower and brown stair.

Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce Thank you for this awesome recognition! Thanks to our staff members who nominated us (anon...
08/19/2026

Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce Thank you for this awesome recognition!

Thanks to our staff members who nominated us (anonymously), thanks to our Board and to our visionary Executive Director for prioritizing family friendly policies and practices, thanks to our fellow nominees for making Fairbanks a great place to live and work!

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2014 30th Avenue
Fairbanks, AK
99701

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+19074518485

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