Empire Montessori’s Evergreen and Fremont locations offer full immersion bilingual (mandarin) programs.

We offer preschool programs at all of our 5 locations:
Downtown San Jose, Evergreen San Jose (Bilingual), Fremont (Bilingual), Willow Glen San Jose, and Pleasant Hill

Our bilingual preschool program provides a 3-year mixed-age community in one classroom, where your child can safely explore skills of reading and mathematics at their own pace. The curriculum covers skills for practical life, sensorial, math, language, and cultural studies.

The Curriculum

The Empire Montessori Bilingual preschool curriculum is carefully prepared to aid your children in developing order, coordination, concentration, and independence. The activities in this area are essential to the direct development of order, coordination, concentration and independence. The children are immersed in English and Chinese, which are spoken interchangeably to them. The children easily absorb simple words and phrases from both languages.

Mathematics

In the mathematics area, children develop the concept of quantity and symbol through the use of concrete manipulative materials that are sequential. The child learns the numbers from 1 – 10 concretely, using counting rods and sandpaper numerals. After the child has learned their numbers to ten, other materials are introduced to learn the teens and tens. From these children learn the decimal system, eventually learning all 4 operations.

Language Development

Language begins with pre-reading skills which lead to more advanced work including vocabulary development, phonics, structural analysis and the mechanics of writing with an emphasis on reading for pleasure and writing as a form of personal expression. Many other materials help the child in preparation for writing.

Multi-Age Groups

The multi-age groupings of children aged three to six provide a family-like group where learning can take place naturally in an atmosphere of co-operation rather than a competitive environment. More experienced children share what they have learned while reinforcing their own learning. This leader role provides the older children with the opportunity to experience positive leadership and develop a strong sense of responsibility and self-worth.