Cosmos Montessori collaborates with families to offer an authentic Montessori environment serving children from three to six years. We support language acquisition and cultural competency development for children in our school within a nurturing and multicultural environment.
Please contact us to receive more information about our school.
We are excited to announce that Cosmos will be opening an E1 class (grades 1 – 3) this fall! The E1 program will start as a seedling program, serving only first graders, and continue to add a grade each year up to third grade.
All current Cosmos Kindergarteners are given automatic placement into the E1 program and do not need to submit an enrollment application. All other students must submit an enrollment application during our Open Enrollment period. To apply for Cosmos’ new E1 program for the 2021-2022 school year, please submit a Lower Elementary Enrollment Application during our Open Enrollment period from May 17th to May 28th.
If more enrollment applications are received during the Open Enrollment period than available openings, students will be admitted by lottery, which will take place Tuesday June 1st at 5:00pm.
Sabathani Community Center
Cosmos Montessori
310 East 38th Street, Suites 133-135
Minneapolis, MN 55409
Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 3:30pm.
We do not offer a half-day or part-time enrollment.
Cosmos Montessori provides a fee-based aftercare program from 3:30pm to 5:00pm. For more information, please contact the school.
Transportation is not available for preschool students.
Acorn is located near bus lines 11 and 23
Healthy snacks are provided for all children. We can accommodate most dietary needs. Lunch can be purchased or brought from home. Students that qualify for free and reduced lunch have the fee waived.
Our day begins with a morning welcome.
We transition to work time and presentations where a teacher leader introduces Montessori materials to individual children or in small groups.
Children are immersed in bilingual environment as we speak both Spanish and English with all children throughout the day.
Lunch, outside time, and an optional nap time follow. Kindergarten students and any preschoolers who do not nap have more time for stories, activities, and Montessori work choices in the afternoon.
Examples of group activities include:
Music, Drawing, Coloring, Dance, Gardening, Games, Yoga, Coordination & Agility, Mask Making, Watercolors, Finger Knitting, Textile Work, Science Projects,
Our day always ends with reflection and warm goodbyes.
Our school year is from September 8th, 2020 until June 11th, 2021.
Winter break is December 21st, 2020 – January 4th, 2021 and Spring Break is April 5th – 9th, 2021.
Additional holidays our school observes throughout the year are Thanksgiving, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents’ Day, & Memorial Day
We have parent teacher conferences in October and March to collaborate with you on your child’s development.
Find our full calendar here.
Fall Assessments: September 21st – 25th
Spring Assessments: May 17th – 21st
Veronica Vital
Founder
Teacher Leader
Born in Mexico, Veronica graduated from the University of Puebla with a major in World Languages: English and French. She then taught English to middle school students and through adult education. Veronica moved to Minnesota. In 1996, she worked as an assistant in a Montessori classroom. Veronica earned her AMI Montessori credential in 1999. Since then she has worked as a lead guide in a single teacher and a co-teacher model, in both private and public schools. She also worked in St. Paul public schools as a Spanish teacher for community education.
Laura Cefalu
Teacher Leader
Fresh out of training from the Montessori Center of Minnesota this past May, Laura is excited to be at Cosmos in her first year of teaching! Prior to her Montessori training, Laura studied elementary education at Gustavus Adolphus earning her B.A. and Minnesota state teaching license in 2016. She then took an assistant teaching position at a Montessori school in Minneapolis where she fell in love with the Montessori method. Laura is currently continuing her education at St. Catherine’s University where she is pursuing a Masters in Education.
Gloria Mejia
Classroom Support
Aftercare Program Leader
Gloria has been working in Montessori classrooms for over seven years. She grew up in El Salvador and has lived in in the United States for 25 years. She married in California and moved to Minnesota in 1999. She has three children and lives in St. Paul. She runs our aftercare program and plans crafts and activities for students. She is so excited to work with our wonderful children.
Cosmos Montessori is still currently enrolling for the 2020-2021 school year! If you would like to enroll for the current school year, please fill out an application here.
To enroll for the 2021-2022 school year, please fill out an application here.
More information regarding enrollment can be found here.
Preschool tuition is $300 a week. We are dedicated to making preschool affordable for every family who applies and have many scholarships opportunities available. Please reach out to us for more information.
Kindergarten tuition is free. We are a public charter school authorized by Audubon Center of the North Woods to provide tuition-free kindergarten.
Cosmos’ policies and plans can be found here.
Thank you Longfellow Nokomis Messenger for sharing our story. Enroll now!
Read about us here!
Workshops provide an opportunity three times a year for parents to learn more about Cosmos Montessori and the Montessori method.
Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, Cosmos will not be providing parent workshops until further notice.
“It’s amazing and beautiful how the whole dynamic works.”
Thank you Southwest Journal for sharing Wildflower Schools’ story. Open enrollment is happening now!
Consider a charitable gift to Cosmos Montessori. We believe educational opportunities should be available to families in our community regardless of financial means. We appreciate any support you might offer our community as we strive for social justice through quality, authentic Montessori education.
Cosmos Montessori is part of the Minnesota Wildflower Montessori School public charter, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. All donations are tax deductible.
Wildflower is an ecosystem of decentralized Montessori micro-schools that support children, teachers, and parents. Our schools aspire to give all children and families the opportunity to choose high quality, beautiful learning environments as they follow life’s unfolding journey.
Wildflower is an ecosystem of decentralized Montessori micro-schools that support children, teachers, and parents. Our schools aspire to give all children and families the opportunity to choose high quality, beautiful learning environments as they follow life’s unfolding journey.
Our aim is to be an experiment in a new learning environment, blurring the boundaries between home and school, between scientists and teachers, between schools and the neighborhoods around them.Our schools are small and teacher-led, with deep parent engagement. At the core of Wildflower are 9 principles that define the approach.
Our network is supported by a foundation that works to build capacity, systems, tools and research to grow and strengthen the network.
Learn more about our story.
Blurring the boundaries between home-schooling and institutional schooling, between scientists and teachers, between schools and the neighborhoods around them. At the core of Wildflower are 9 principles that define the approach.
After the first Wildflower school was created in January of 2014, there was intense interest in the school and the approach. This interest led us to open-source the model and help other family groups and teacher-leaders to create new Wildflower schools. Each teacher-leader at each Wildflower school serves on the board of at least one other Wildflower school, creating a community of schools that are linked by both a shared philosophy and a network of shared relationships.