OUR PROGRAMS
INFANT
2 months - 18 months old
Our infant community is a safe and rich world full of opportunities for your baby to actively explore and enjoy.
Our authentic Montessori school program is designed for comprehensive individual development at the child’s natural pace. Caring and learning are inseparable. Primary caregivers provide “on demand” care in an environment that maximizes mobility. A baby who feels safe also feels free to grow, move, and explore their surroundings.
Language development, music and support of baby sign language enrich our infants’ daily experiences.
TODDLER
18 months - 3 years old
Our toddler communities are carefully planned spaces to promote your child’s independence, order, creativity and freedom of choice. These are safe places where your child is free to explore how the world works and how to work in the world.
Your child will learn self-care and practical life skills in our home-like environment, while engaging their budding fine motor, language, musical and artistic skills.
Above all, our Guides help toddlers understand their emotions, encouraging tolerance, cooperation and respect for others.
PRIMARY
3 - 5 years old
Our Primary communities offer your child the freedom to learn and grow through hands-on experiences and creative exploration with beautiful authentic Montessori materials.
The youngest children observe and interact with the older children; in turn, the kindergarteners serve as role models and guides, learning responsibility and leadership skills while mastering academic skills in reading and math.
The materials in each community are grouped into six main areas: Practical Life, Sensorial, Mathematics, Language, Geography and Science.
Fine arts, music, foreign language and gym are interspersed throughout the weekly program.
ELEMENTARY
1st - 6th grade
Our program provides your child with an expansive education, through lessons and questions to guide their explorations in culture, science, mathematics, language, arts, social rules and morals.
The curriculum is guided from large scope to small, moving from big-picture understanding to a focus on details. The children continue to work with concrete materials to explore academic areas, quickly discovering abstract methods to utilize.
Critical thinking, problem solving and independent research are emphasized. Project Based Learning challenges your students’ growing imagination, accelerating academic progress while offering opportunities for social growth.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
7th – 8th grade
Our program is tailored to the unique learning needs of adolescents. We pair rigorous academics with real-life project work and structure study in a social setting. Through Project Based Learning, our students experience the applied purpose of math, science, humanities and language in their adult-world projects. These culminate in a vibrant, student-led micro economy where engineering, growing, harvesting, sales and marketing, public speaking and budgeting are natural areas of work for each student to contribute to.
Across the curriculum, students partake in group-presentations to debate, defend, share, assert, converse, and challenge presented content. The expectation is to “collaborate; don’t separate”. Students practice acceptance and equity, sharing responsibility and accountability.
Our Montessori middle school challenges the norms of traditional education to set students on their own confident path towards economic independence, equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to participate in and transform society as the adult they are growing into.
ENRICHMENT
At the MSR we educate the whole child. We value extra-curricular activities such as the arts, music, physical education and cultural studies as much as the curricular.
These open children’s learning faculties and support their education in other areas. From improved critical thinking, creativity and concentration to greater self-confidence, tenacity and community spirit, we see children develop holistically thanks to the diverse learning experiences.
We cover the visual, literary, performing and culinary arts in our weekly programs. Children enjoy dance and creative movement, drama, woodworking, cooking, multicultural tastings, Spanish as a second language and more.
In addition, enrichment classes that cover a range of interests after school are available for an additional fee.
Come to Our Open House!
We're hosting an Open House at our Crystal Lake location in Bloomfield Hills on June 8th!