Pine Top Montessori is a wonderful new preschool in the Sierra foothills. It's a cute, clean, quiet place with a beautiful pine tree forest backdrop. My daughter loved her time at Pine Top Montessori so much that she still talks about it a year later, begging me to take her back there. (We would still be there if we didn't have to relocate.) The teachers are fun, nurturing, creative, and enthusiastic; the curriculum is taught with a stress on academics, art and nature; and the families at Pine Top Montessori do whatever they can help make this an inviting, warm wonderful place to send their children.‎