The Setting

Cayuga Heights Montessori House offers a traditional Montessori Prepared Environment in a beautiful home setting in the heart of Cayuga Heights. We will provide your child with the opportunity to interact with an environment rich in specially designed materials that will call to his spirit and mind. Our nurturing home setting invokes the spirit of the original Casa Dei Bambini (Children’s House), the first Montessori School founded by Maria Montessori in 1907. In this carefully prepared space Montessori’s priority was to provide children with a beautiful place where they could freely choose materials with which they could perform the ‘work’ of creating their intellect and gaining independence. This original ‘Children’s House’ cast Maria Montessori as the world’s foremost female educator.