City: Shawnee, MO

Category: Education

Telephone: (913) 422-5684

Address: 21403 Midland Dr.

Description: With activities that include gardening, music, and visiting the school’s rabbit and baby goats, it’s enough to make you want to revert to childhood. Students from 18 months to third grade also learn phonics, geography, math, science, and computer skills through a Montessori-based teaching discipline. The school is set in wooded acreage, and the children spend plenty of time outdoors participating in games and watching for the deer that live just beyond the facility’s fence. The school has been in operation since 1986; all classes are led by certified teachers.