We are Open!
Sunrise is currently accepting applications for the following programs:
Full or half time
Toddler (16 mo - 33 mo)
Preschool (33 mo - 5 yr)
Fulltime
Kindergarten
Infant Room soon opening!
Sunrise Montessori remains committed to offering the highest quality of early childhood education in a safe and healthy environment. Our policies and practices are continually guided by the Minnesota Department of Health , the Minnesota Department of Education , the Minnesota Department of Human Services , Child Care Aware of Minnesota and Minnesota Child Care Health Consultants.
For more information or to view these policies and practices, please contact Sunrise directly at 952-890-8877.
Welcome to Sunrise International Montessori School
Located in Burnsville, MN, for nearly 20 years, Sunrise International Montessori has been providing both toddler (16 mo - 33 mo) and preschool (33 mo to 6 yr) programs year round. Open Monday through Friday from 6:30 am to 6:00 pm.
Our experience, knowledge and commitment makes us a unique leader in caring for and preparing a diverse community of young learners in the south metro area.
At Sunrise, we are more than caregivers and educators, we are part of your family and committed to your child's educational success!
Our Mission:
Sunrise Montessori is an independent school in which each child is valued as unique and as an active agent in his/her educational process. Sunrise Montessori fosters independence, critical thinking, responsibility to self and others, and peaceful, appreciative stewardship of the earth.
Our Philosophy:
The Montessori Method
A fundamental premise with the Montessori philosophy of education is that all children carry within themselves the person they will become. In order to develop their physical, intellectual, and spiritual potential to the fullest, the child must have freedom: a freedom to be achieved through order and self-discipline.
Montessori education is devoted to helping each child achieve his or her potential and develop a lifelong love of learning. It is an approach to education grounded in the belief that a child learns best within a social environment that supports and respects each individual’s unique development. Activities promote the development of social skills, emotional growth, and physical coordination as well as cognitive preparation.
The Montessori Method is based on the theory that children develop individually, at their own developmental pace, in a carefully prepared environment. The prepared environment possesses a certain order and builds a strong foundation for learning, fostered by the practical life and sensorial materials in the classroom, enabling children to move through a continuum of curricula, naturally advancing with each step.
The teacher or “guide”, prepares her/himself and the environment, gives presentations on the Montessori materials, and offers the child stimulation. However, it is the child who makes the ultimate decisions. The child is an active agent in his own learning, who is motivated through work itself to persist in a given task. If Montessori children are free to learn, it is because they have acquired an “inner discipline” from their exposure to both physical and mental order.
Dr. Montessori believed that no human being is educated by another person. The child, through their absorbent mine, seeks to build or construct their very being. The goal of early childhood education should not be to fill the child with facts for a pre-selected course of studies, but rather to cultivate the child’s own natural desire to learn.
“Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.”
~Dr. Maria Montessori
