• Welcome to Discovery Garden Montessori School (DGMS) located in Springfield, Missouri. DGMS was founded in 2009 and is currently the only Montessori School in Southwest Missouri. DGMS offers programs for children starting at sixteen months in the toddler classroom all the way through nine years of age in the early elementary classroom. DGMS was founded… [Continue Reading]

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  • The Pre-Primary classroom consists of several types of exercises designed to cultivate adaptation and the children’s ability to think and express themselves with clarity. The following five categories of exercises are employed in the Montessori Pre-Primary Classroom: • Practical Life These exercise focus on caring of self, caring of environment, and concern for others.  Concentration… [Continue Reading]

    Pre-Primary Classrooms

  • The toddler classroom offers very young children a unique year of self-development in a tender atmosphere of special understanding, respect and support.  This is unique in that we provide a very specific structure which fulfills the social, physical, emotional and psychological needs of each child. In the toddler environment, there is space for movement, space… [Continue Reading]

    The Toddler Classroom

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"The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming … [Read More...]

Programs

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"Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that … [Read More...]

Admissions

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Now Enrolling for 2013/2014 Thank you for your interest in Discovery Garden Montessori School. Open Enrollment for the 2013/14 school year started … [Read More...]

Summer Camps

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Discovery Garden is excited to offer a series of summer camps for 2013, open to current and new students.  For details and registration … [Read More...]