Little Sprouts Montessori

This is the best nature-based school I have ever come across! The teachers are extraordinary human beings full of life, love and presence. Our world would be a happy and peaceful place if all of our children attended schools like this. I am beyond impressed! Thank you, thank you, thank you for existing. Warmly, AB

Miss Natalie is one of the warmest and inspiring people I have ever met, and there is a reason so many people trust her with their children. My son was a student at Little Sprouts, and it was a fantastic experience for both of us! The school itself is phenomenal and facilitates children connecting with nature and developing a healthy relationship with their food. The children seed plants in the greenhouse, help transfer them to the raised plant beds, and tend to and harvest the very food that is used in their meals. The time and thought that is put into every aspect of this Montessori school and in the children's learning and growth is evident and apparent. I will always be grateful for the education my son received at Little Sprouts...I cannot recommend LSM and Miss Natalie highly enough.

If I could give less than 1 star I would. We enrolled my nephew and told her that her had some behavioral issues bc he has suffered abuse and that we were working with counselors. She assured us that she knew all about it and could handle it. She said she would make sure there was always someone watching him at all times, like they should be doing at every school, and that is not the case. I walked into the school to pick him up, and saw no "teachers;" as a matter of fact, I got all the way out to the playground without anyone noticing a stranger was walking around amongst the children. When I finally found him, he was hiding under the playground equipment bc he had an accident. He was there for so long unattended that he had blisters on his bottom. We had to take him to the dr for medical attention. This "school" offers no real educational program. She is a glorified babysitter, and talks to the children like they are stupid. She was always rude to us, and then once we told her we were going to take him out of her "school" and move him to a real school, she got pissed and said that she couldn't "handle him" and that he was not allowed to come back, even though we had already paid and he was going to stay thru the time we were paid up...and she said that was unacceptable and he was not allowed to come back, but wouldn't give us the money back. So, he suffered more abuse at her hands because she refused to treat him like a human, and ignores all the children. I should have never been able to get into the building, much less out to the playground without someone escorting me. Would you want your children in a daycare (bc that's all this place is, and a terrible one at that) where strangers can just walk in and start talking and hanging out with your kid?

This school is amazing! It is not a daycare - it is a life-changing early childhood education experience. The mini-farm is a classroom where the students learn to count by collecting eggs and learn their shapes and colors from the produce they grow in the garden. This school teaches the children to appreciate and thrive in nature. The farm is their classroom - not 4 walls and a desk. Amazing... nothing else like it in Kansas City.