Shining Star Bilingual Montessori

This was the absolute best experience for our 2-3 year old. If we hadn’t moved, we would never have left. Miss Wendy and Miss Xing are the kindest and warmest teachers who made my daughter feel loved every day. We had a new baby while our daughter was attending Shining Star and extra special attention was given to her every day so she didn’t feel overshadowed by the new baby or left out. My husband and I do not speak much Chinese and we were amazed at how much our daughter learned in such a short time. Shining Star is the number one thing we miss most about San Francisco and I would recommend to absolutely everyone who is looking for a preschool in the Bay Area.

My daughter has been attending Shining Star when the school opened in November. It was her first transition from a nanny to school and while not easy, I believe the transition (~2 weeks) went well mainly because of Wendy's connection & attention to my daughter during a difficult time. Since then she has progressed a lot & comes home singing new songs, count numbers and knows the alphabet. She likes the other children and talks about Wendy and them all the time at home. The space is large so the kids have a lot of room to play & run around. My daughter never fights going to school and is excited to see Wendy and the other kids everyday when we go. I highly recommend Shining Star for kids in the area looking for a Montessori school in the area. We are glad we made the decision to send my daughter there and looking forward to see how she continues to grow there.

I have known Wendy as a Montessori educator for over 6 years. She has a good understanding of the Montessori method of education, and always puts the needs of children first. One thing that stands out about Wendy is that she is always with a smile. She is kind, loving, and well liked by her students, parents, and co-workers.

Ms. Wendy is a great teacher and she put her students’ interest and safety as her top priority. My son attended Montessori preschool when he was 2 year old, we had Ms. Wendy as his Head teacher for one and half years. She’s caring and paying close attention to her students. My son liked her a lot. He learned phonics, alphabet sounds, tracing, drawing shapes, numbers recognition, physical counting, and many different Montessori techniques from Ms. Wendy. When I drop off my son every day, I have full confidence that Ms. Wendy will take good care of him (of course so does all students). She gives me a brief status report of how things went in class daily and She let me know if my son finished his lunch and how his nap time. I really have the peace of mind that my son is in good hands. I noticed that my son grew up and learned how to take care of his own like washing hands, eating his lunch, packing toys. I believe Ms. Wendy trained him very well. She is caring and ensuring kids put jacket on when it is cold outside and supervising the kids to play safe. Ms. Wendy is awesome!

Wendy was our oldest daughter's very first teacher, so in a way she was our first teacher. Our daughter was 2-1/2 when she first started preschool, and we couldn't have asked for a better match than Wendy. The first 3 weeks involved a lot of crying, but as soon as mommy or daddy left, she felt super comfortable with Wendy, and would not even leave her side for lunch and would follow her into the teachers' lunch room! But Wendy was patient and kind and made our daughter feel like she was in a second home. To this day whenever we ask our daughter who her who her favorite teacher is, she always says "Miss Wendy"!