Your ideas are wonderful!! Thank you again!!!
If this doesn't work out, we're looking at a Spanish-immersion preschool w/ a Montessori-trained teacher. We considered straight Montessori, too. Then we realized that we loved various aspects of the other preschools we saw too, like the science labs in one and theater in another, so our hope is to combine those ideas together. By the time we start, the children currently in our group will be between 3.4 (mine) and 3.9, so I think they'll be ready for a lot of these ideas, including the pre-k HWT. I'm not very creative, but the other two are, so I think we have a great team!
I'll let you know how it goes!!