The Grosse Pointe Academy’s Early School is the longest continuously operating Montessori Program in Michigan.
Dr. Maria Montessori’s philosophy advocates the belief that early childhood education should cultivate a child’s desire to learn. Children are given the freedom to explore the excitement of learning on their own, and they are given assistance in perfecting individual talents.
The Early School Montessori curriculum and environment is designed to maximize your child’s potential during the ages of two and a half through Kindergarten. Life skills such as confidence, social relations, care of the environment, development of motor skills along with concrete, hands-on activities lead to the child’s ability to process abstract information in later school years. Developing productive work habits early helps to lay a foundation of learning for the future.
The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six. For that is the time when man’s intelligence itself, his greatest implement, is being formed.” The Absorbent Mind, Maria Montessori
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