06/05/2026
Primary kiddos the last week of school!
Children's Montessori School of Lompoc, Giving the Keys to the Future
www.montessorilompoc.com
Children's Montessori School has been offering the Montessori education to children ages two to fifteen since 1982. We are committed to providing a prepared environment that encourages children to develop practical, intellectual, physical and social disciplines. The prepared environment with a trained guide promotes independence, self-discipline, confidence, and respect in a child?s personal and s
06/05/2026
Primary kiddos the last week of school!
06/03/2026
05/31/2026
The Primary kiddos working hard the last full week of school.
05/25/2026
The Primary kiddos at work and play last week! π€
05/23/2026
Children's Montessori School Open Enrollment!
Give your child a strong foundation for lifelong learning at our Montessori preschool and elementary program. Our nurturing environment is designed to foster the whole child by encouraging independent thinking, confidence, creativity, and a joyful love of learning β while promoting respect for self, others, and the environment.
We Proudly Accept Alternative Payment Programs:
*Childrenβs Resource & Referral (CR&R)
*SBCEO
*DSS CalWORKs Tier 1
Why Choose Montessori?
*Hands-on, child-centered learning
*Encourages independence and responsibility
*Mixed-age classrooms that build leadership and collaboration
*Focus on academic, social, and emotional growth
Schedule a Tour Today!
Come see our classrooms, meet our teachers, and discover if our Montessori program is the right fit for your child.
Now Enrolling for Fall β Limited Spaces Available!
π Contact us today to learn more or book your tour.
Phone:805-294-3368
Address:1000 W. Ocean Avenue
05/22/2026
Voyager 1 is now more than 15 billion miles from Earth. It left our planet on September 5, 1977, and it has not stopped moving since. Nearly 49 years later, it is the most distant human-made object in existence β farther from home than anything humanity has ever built, sent, or imagined reaching.
It travels at roughly 38,000 miles per hour. At that speed, you could cross the United States in under four minutes. But even at that velocity, Voyager 1 will not reach the nearest star system for another 40,000 years. The distances between stars are not just large β they are incomprehensible. Voyager has been flying for half a century and has barely left the Sun's front porch.
The spacecraft is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator β a device that converts the heat from decaying plutonium-238 into electricity. That plutonium has been decaying since before the spacecraft launched. It loses roughly four watts per year. NASA engineers have spent decades carefully managing every watt, shutting down instruments and heaters one by one to stretch the mission as far as physically possible. Today, only two science instruments remain active.
Eventually β likely sometime in the 2030s β the power will drop below the threshold needed to operate any instruments at all. The transmitter will fall silent. The antenna will drift out of alignment. The data stream that has been flowing from Voyager to Earth for nearly five decades will stop.
But the spacecraft itself will not.
With no atmosphere to slow it down and no gravity strong enough to capture it, Voyager 1 will continue drifting through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour β effectively forever. It will coast through the Milky Way as a silent, unpowered artifact, carrying a golden phonograph record bolted to its side. That record contains 115 images, greetings in 55 languages, 90 minutes of music from around the world, and the recorded brainwaves of a young woman named Ann Druyan, who would later marry Carl Sagan.
The Golden Record was designed to survive for a billion years in the vacuum of space. Long after every building on Earth has crumbled, long after every language currently spoken has been forgotten, long after the continents have shifted into shapes no living person would recognize β that record will still exist, drifting silently through the galaxy, carrying proof that we were here.
No one will be listening when the signal stops. But the message will keep traveling.
05/18/2026
Itβs time to sign up for summer!
05/17/2026
The Primary kiddos working hard last week!
05/13/2026
Primary kiddos working hard and playing hard!
05/03/2026
End of School Year Thrift Sale where you can find the things you have been looking for. Come support the school with elementary classroom expansion and kitchen addition.
Thank you for your support
Jim and the children
| Monday | 8:30am - 2:30pm |
| Tuesday | 8:30am - 2:30pm |
| Wednesday | 8:30am - 2:30pm |
| Thursday | 8:30am - 2:30pm |
| Friday | 8:30am - 2:30pm |