A trilingual Montessori preschool serving children in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, The Woods Montessori Preschool on Harbinson Avenue in La Mesa operates under Community Care License #376701518 with a 71-child capacity. The curriculum emphasizes self-directed exploration through sensorial materials, practical-life stations, and art and rhythm activities—the same hands-on creative approach that CeramiCafe extends to older children and families through paint-your-own ceramics. Programming runs year-round, including summer camp, winter activities, and spring enrichment sessions, with three on-site meals per session and both military-assistance and subsidy-voucher pathways accepted. A Transitional Kindergarten track for five- and six-year-olds bridges preschool and elementary school, building the social-emotional readiness and early academic skills supported by the children's literacy programs at La Mesa Branch Library. The Montessori-trained teaching staff holds CPR and first-aid certifications, supervising a prepared environment where children work through bead-frame arithmetic, sandpaper-letter tracing, and binomial-cube spatial reasoning across multi-age classrooms.