Alice's Montessori
Alice's Montessori Preschool Walnut Creek, 3158 Putnam Blvd., Walnut Creek, CA 94597
About
Alice's Montessori offers a wide range of classroom activities, including practical life work with kitchen items such as tongs, funnels, pouring pitchers, and scoopers, as well as sensorial activities that explore colors, sounds, smells, tastes, sizes, and weight by matching and ordering materials. Children engage in math activities such as rote counting, quantity to symbol work, simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the positive or negative snake game, and the bank game, along with language activities that include picture and name recognition, letter and letter-to-sound recognition, simple word recognition, sounding out words, matching objects to the letters that spell the object, reading basic words, sentence building, and reading books designed for their level. The program also includes writing activities like free-form coloring, drawing shapes, forming letters, and writing words and sentences, as well as geography, history, science, art, music, celebrations, in-school field trips, and playground activities such as running, jumping, digging in the sand, climbing and sliding, playing catch, dancing with friends, running races, and playing games like “goose.”
• Ages: 3 months–6 years old
Alice's Montessori has been educating children 3 months to 6 years of age since 1983. The schools are described as maintaining a home-like atmosphere with a safe and comfortable environment, with small toilets, low sinks, and child-sized tables, chairs, and shelving that are designed to fit the needs of children and encourage independence, and with beautiful playgrounds that have space for both active play and quiet socializing.
The Montessori classroom environment at Alice’s Montessori is described as quiet and relaxed, yet exciting and full of challenging academic work that children find fun and rewarding, with activities designed to allow each child to achieve his or her full academic potential. The program includes a Practical Life area where activities take center stage for very young or new students, sensorial materials specifically designed to develop a child’s ability to order and categorize information from the senses, and math materials such as binomial and trinomial cubes that prepare for advanced math concepts. Geography work moves from the universe to the child’s city using globes with blue water and sandpaper continents, colored continent globes, and maps of the world and each continent, while history activities use a timeline as a fundamental Montessori apparatus to illustrate the progression of events and stories of historical figures.
Science activities include hands-on experiences and experimentation, with lessons in biology and zoology supported by animals in the classroom. Art materials such as crayons, markers, colored pencils, glue, paint, feathers, stickers, and stamps are always available, along with planned art projects, and music is described as an integral part of the classroom experience, including classical music, popular children’s songs, instruments, and movement to music through dance. The program celebrates birthdays, graduations, and cultural events from many countries, and offers in-school field trips with community helpers like firemen or policemen, visitors from the Lindsey Museum with a variety of animals, “The Mad Scientist” with a show for preschool-age children, and “Save Nature.org.”
Teachers at Alice’s Montessori are described as specially trained, patient, and understanding, and as intuitive, experienced educators who each bring their own unique experiences, cultures, and hobbies into the classroom and onto the playground. The mission statement says that specially trained teachers will love and nurture each child while guiding him or her along an individual path of learning.
Alice’s Montessori holds the following licenses: Preschool Walnut Creek License #073403870, Preschool Pleasant Hill License #073405687, and Infant and Toddler Center License #073407486. The schools are described as open year round at the listed locations.
Parents describe Alice’s Montessori as having warm and loving staff, with children who feel fulfilled and greet their parents with smiles, and teachers who “teach from the heart,” according to Kathy and David Futterman. Other parents, including Charles Margulis, Neil and Debbie Kilcoin, Woutrina Miller, John Lord, and Betsy Orme, describe their children as safe and cared for, not wanting to leave at the end of the day, receiving individual attention while also working in groups and independently, and experiencing consistent quality and care from the teachers and staff over multiple years.
Last updated August 5, 2026.
• Ages: 3 months–6 years old
Alice's Montessori has been educating children 3 months to 6 years of age since 1983. The schools are described as maintaining a home-like atmosphere with a safe and comfortable environment, with small toilets, low sinks, and child-sized tables, chairs, and shelving that are designed to fit the needs of children and encourage independence, and with beautiful playgrounds that have space for both active play and quiet socializing.
The Montessori classroom environment at Alice’s Montessori is described as quiet and relaxed, yet exciting and full of challenging academic work that children find fun and rewarding, with activities designed to allow each child to achieve his or her full academic potential. The program includes a Practical Life area where activities take center stage for very young or new students, sensorial materials specifically designed to develop a child’s ability to order and categorize information from the senses, and math materials such as binomial and trinomial cubes that prepare for advanced math concepts. Geography work moves from the universe to the child’s city using globes with blue water and sandpaper continents, colored continent globes, and maps of the world and each continent, while history activities use a timeline as a fundamental Montessori apparatus to illustrate the progression of events and stories of historical figures.
Science activities include hands-on experiences and experimentation, with lessons in biology and zoology supported by animals in the classroom. Art materials such as crayons, markers, colored pencils, glue, paint, feathers, stickers, and stamps are always available, along with planned art projects, and music is described as an integral part of the classroom experience, including classical music, popular children’s songs, instruments, and movement to music through dance. The program celebrates birthdays, graduations, and cultural events from many countries, and offers in-school field trips with community helpers like firemen or policemen, visitors from the Lindsey Museum with a variety of animals, “The Mad Scientist” with a show for preschool-age children, and “Save Nature.org.”
Teachers at Alice’s Montessori are described as specially trained, patient, and understanding, and as intuitive, experienced educators who each bring their own unique experiences, cultures, and hobbies into the classroom and onto the playground. The mission statement says that specially trained teachers will love and nurture each child while guiding him or her along an individual path of learning.
Alice’s Montessori holds the following licenses: Preschool Walnut Creek License #073403870, Preschool Pleasant Hill License #073405687, and Infant and Toddler Center License #073407486. The schools are described as open year round at the listed locations.
Parents describe Alice’s Montessori as having warm and loving staff, with children who feel fulfilled and greet their parents with smiles, and teachers who “teach from the heart,” according to Kathy and David Futterman. Other parents, including Charles Margulis, Neil and Debbie Kilcoin, Woutrina Miller, John Lord, and Betsy Orme, describe their children as safe and cared for, not wanting to leave at the end of the day, receiving individual attention while also working in groups and independently, and experiencing consistent quality and care from the teachers and staff over multiple years.
Last updated August 5, 2026.
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