Chesterfield Montessori School

Summer at CMS


Our summer program is designed as a perfect complement to our academic year program for our enrolled students. We are also excited about the new Elementary summer camp offerings for 2023!

Chesterfield Montessori School Summer 2023


Our school has summer camps for Elementary children within and beyond the CMS community, and Montessori programming with afternoon enrichment for currently enrolled children ages 16 months through age 6.


All camps take place at Chesterfield Montessori School’s 5-acre campus, which includes a prairie restoration project, an organic children’s garden, tennis and basketball courts and playgrounds. Each classroom within the artfully designed building is filled with natural light.

Elementary summer camp

Elementary Summer Camp Offerings Overview


  • Open to children ages 6-12.
  • Families may register for all or select camps within each session.
  • Session One Half-Day Camps may be combined, along with Extended Care for CMS children, if families want a full-day experience.
  • Register via the provider’s website unless otherwise instructed
  • Morning and full day camps have lunch at 11:30 AM; children may bring lunch from home or purchase catered lunch through Chesterfield Montessori School (details below)

Session One: Investigative Science, Musical Theatre and Chess


BSI: Bug Scene Investigators with Butterfly House

June 5-30, 2023 (half-days, two sessions, four weeks total)

Session One: June 5-16

Session Two: June 19-30

Mornings 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Tuition: $440 per session


The Bug Bureau of Investigations is searching for new agents! In this hands-on field training, recruits will join Butterfly House experts to hone their detective talents, crack unsolved cases, and earn their badge. While learning new skills, trainees will also discover new friends, both bug and human, as they unveil the mysteries of invertebrate behavior. The sessions will cover unique case files, so students are encouraged to attend both sessions!


Register for Session 1: Click Here

Register for Session 2: Click Here


Broadway Kids! Theatre Camp with Stages St. Louis

June 5-16 (half days, two weeks)

Afternoons 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Tuition: $175


Act! Sing! Dance! Introduce your budding star to the fun of musical theatre! Professional teaching artists from STAGES St. Louis will actively engage students using a variety of age-appropriate songs from some of Broadway's classic family friendly musicals that feature BROADWAY KIDS like Annie in Annie, Oliver in Oliver, Matilda in Matilda, Young Simba in The Lion King, Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden or young Cosette in Les Miserables and more. Students will be introduced to basic tools of theatre and performance through engaging theatre games, incorporating props, costumes and performing in a culminating showcase on the last day for families and friends.


Important Note: Have children eat lunch before they come. Children who are also participating in the morning camp with Butterfly House will eat lunch at 11:30.


To Register: Complete this form.

Session Two: Creative Arts Camps with ArtScope


July 3-21 (three weeks, full days)

9:00 AM- 3:00 PM

Tuition: $980 for all three weeks, or enroll in individual camps for prices listed


ArtScope fosters emotional well-being, expansive and intentional inclusivity, and environmental harmony through imaginative art, dialogue, and visionary play. ArtScope nurtures the next generation of creators and innovators.


Mythological Creatures

July 3 & 5-7 (no class July 4), 2023 (four full days)

Tuition: $280

Register Here


Beyond our realm lies the eternally unknown… and the eternally discoverable! Does your creature live in the forest behind Chesterfield Montessori, or maybe in the stream? Explore the forests of your mind, and build the creature of your wildest dreams through collage, plaster manipulation, roundtable discussion, and so much more in this four day camp! This camp highlights: Our relationship to the natural world, identification of survival traits as defined by physical characteristics, long-form character building, and utilization of multimedia to define a big-picture idea.


Science and Story with Puppets

July 10-14, 2023 (five full days)

Tuition: $350

Register Here


Come with us as we probe the world of manipulable art, character representation, and purposeful movement in this five day camp. Students will work to bring the worlds of design, engineering and storytelling together through various puppet-theater techniques, led by our puppet-crazed Artscope Teaching Artists. This camp highlights: Creative engineering, physical representation of emotional traits in shape and movement, group storytelling, empathetic understanding of internal worlds, character development, multimedia design, the history and relevance of storytelling, theater techniques, and so much more!


Illustrations and Cartooning

July 17-21, 2023 (five full days)

Tuition: $350

Register Here


In this technique- based camp, students will build skills in illustration and cartooning through bookmaking, animation, line work, shading, perspective, set design and all things 2-D(ish). This camp highlights: Line work, shading, character building, background design, font creation, pacing, book making, storytelling, animation, movement, skill-building, and more!

Session Three: Science Camps with Little Medical School


July 24-August 11 (three weeks, full days)

9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Tuition: $850 for all three weeks (with Promo Code: CMS2023), or enroll in individual camps for $300 each


Little Doctor School (July 24-July 28)

Register Here


Inspired learning today - healthy futures tomorrow! Camp participants will role-play the key responsibilities of a doctor and learn about vital organs in the human body. These future doctors will learn how to use a stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, and reflex hammer. They will practice administering first aid, learn how pharmacists play a role in administering medications, and more!


Little Vet School (July 31-Aug 4)

Register Here


Become a paw-some and purr-fect veterinarian! Camp participants will role-play the key responsibilities of a veterinarian and learn how to care for a dog and a cat. These future veterinarians will learn how to remove ticks, perform a nose- to-tail exam, understand proper animal nutrition and hydration, suture lacerations, and more!


Wilderness Medicine (August 7-11)

Register Here


Conquer the great outdoors! Camp participants will role-play emergency situations in the wild and learn how to prepare for natural disasters. These future emergency medics will learn about snake bites, hypothermia, tourniquets, poisonous plants, edible plants, distress signals, forest fires, tornadoes, mosquito bites, and more.

Toddler and Primary summer programs

Toddler and Primary summer camp offerings


As in the past, CMS will offer Primary Montessori summer programs with afternoon enrichment for currently enrolled children only. The CMS Toddler program is 12 months, with a two week break in late August. Both Primary and Toddler programs start 30 minutes later in the summer. The school is closed August 14-25 for Staff Development and Building Maintenance.


We will send more information about Primary and Toddler summer by early spring. Please reach out if you have questions. More detailed info will be available after the winter break.

Catered lunch available through Nourish

Optional catered lunch available for full-day and morning children


Optional catered lunch is available through Nourish, the food provider for Chesterfield Montessori School, for $35 per week, per student for full-day and morning camps only (half-day afternoon students should eat lunch prior to arrival). Nourish creates wholesome meals that appeal to children from scratch each day. To make arrangements for catered lunch, contact info@chesterfieldmontessori.org at least one week prior to the beginning of your child’s camp. Questions about lunch? Email the address above or call 314-469-7150 and ask for Jennifer Blasingame, Assistant Head of School and Chief Operating Officer.

Chesterfield Montessori School continues to amaze me in their unwavering commitment to providing their students with the very best. I graduated from CMS in 6th grade back in 2005 (when there wasn't yet a 7th or 8th grade, otherwise I definitely would have stayed) and my memories of the school have always been extremely bright and joyful — a community that I was excited to be a part of and teachers that I looked forward to spending my days with. Fast forward 15 years and I've had the honor of reengaging with the school and community to give back. I thought my memories must be rose-tinted by my age, but I'm more energized than ever about all this school offers. The staff truly care, the teachers are so devoted, and the community has so much to offer. If you're at all considering Montessori for your children, trust me when I say you do not want to miss out on this extremely rare, true Montessori experience.

Mir Cruz

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