Sun Grove Montessori School

🎉 Spring Fling 2026! 🎉
Join us April 11 from 12–5 PM for an afternoon of bounce houses, raffles, food, and community fun!
Let’s celebrate the end of the school year together 🌸
📍 White City Park, Ft. Pierce
Come support the Treasure Coast’s only accredited Montessori school—and bring a friend!
Public welcome!

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Join us for the Sun Grove Annual Gala—an elegant evening celebrating our community and supporting the mission that makes Sun Grove so special. 💛
📅 February 6, 2026

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🔨🧩 Build. Create. Imagine. 🧩🔨
Kids in K–6th grade are invited to the Block Kids Building Contest & Career Fair! A hands-on day of building fun and career exploration in the construction industry.
📅 January 24, 2026
📍 Port St. Lucie
📝 Register by January 17

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📅 February 6, 2026

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Celebrating independence this Fourth of July reminds us of the self-directed learning at Sun Grove Montessori. Celebrate freedom, fireworks, and fun!

Our campus will be closed on Friday, July 4th.
Happy Independence Day.

Join us for our annual Spring Fling. Support Sun Grove at this family-friendly community event at Pierced Cinderworks in downtown Fort Pierce. There will be kid activities, food, and raffles. We also have sponsorship opportunities available.

Hope to see you there!

Two days to go!

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Sun Grove is at the Downtown Farmer's Market in Fort Pierce! Stop by to learn more about the Sun Grove 2023 Gala.

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Happy Birthday, Maria Montessori.

An activist, feminist, humanitarian, doctor, and education revolutionary. The impact of her work is felt around the globe through the thousands of students who sit in the classrooms of schools bearing her name.

To honor her legacy, AMS has collected stories, quotes, and thank you notes from members of our community and staff. We invite you to read more on our Montessori Life blog. https://bit.ly/3Q3xgn7

Every Child is a 'Super-Sensory Processor'
Most of us grew up aware of our five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Some people add in intuition as their Sixth Sense. In West Africa they include the sense of balance. That's a pretty obvious oversight on our part, we wcouldn't even be able to sit up without balance. Rudolf Steiner spoke of the twelve senses, and more recently, researchers have spoken of 19+ senses. Michael Cohen lists 53 survival senses in his book "Reconnecting with Nature".
The young child takes in an estimated 4 gigabytes of sensory data per second; I don't know how they estimate that, but even 1 gigabyte of data per second would be really impressive. The child MAKES their knowledge out of the data input from their 'whole sensory experience'. For example, the child gets to know hens in an integrated way unavailable to the child reading about hens or watching a documentary about hens. When you understand this, you understand the importance of the child playing outside in nature. Nature is the humans' natural habitat while the house is 'home base', somewhere warm and safe to sleep.
In his book "Last Child in the Woods" Richard Louv uses the term "nature deficit disorder" to describe the disorder when children miss out on ALL the sensory data that grounds and informs them, the super-sensory experience that contributes to their well being and their sense of belonging. There is no known substitute experience as rich as that which nature and the outdoors offers our children, or us. In a nutshell, we are all Earthlings, we are not classroomlings to be kept in captivity.