Schools in Jackson, MS

“I rarely write reviews, but I had to because this daycare is heaven sent. I recently had to switch daycares, and I can tell an immediate difference in my son’s retention and speech. The staff here takes really good care of my child and go beyond for the parents. Miss Tiffany is always doing Mother’s Day or Daddy-daughter dances to create family atmosphere. Best daycare!”

“Our family's experience at FPDS has been wonderful and a blessing. I am impressed by the academic instruction and love hearing my daughter talk about new concepts she is learning. Her teachers make the curriculum interesting and fun. The spiritual teaching that she has received encourages me as her parent. I can tell that the gospel is interwoven into daily conversations in the classroom by the way that she brings up Bible stories or themes at home or in the car when we are in the middle of daily life. Our family is thankful for all the ways FPDS positively influences our lives!”

“Little Sam is such a blessing for the neighborhood, but earnestly for all of Jackson. Their programing and curriculum is second-to-none, in my opinion. Our son is such a wonderful little person because of the way each of his teachers takes care to allow him to develop. If you're on the fence about Montessori education, you should talk with the staff. My only wish is that there were more space for more kids to benefit from this beautiful little environment.

The ability for children to think, grown, and learn independently through carefully curated choices and boundaries aligns with how children naturally learn by movement, exploration, and choice during sensitive development stages. Unlike more rigid, adult-centric approaches, Montessori curriculum fosters independence, intrinsic motivation, and cognitive growth by respecting each kiddos pace. This is more holistically appropriate for their social-emotional development, and their academic growth. And we've seen nothing short of that in our son.

More simply put, Little Sam offers kids the blessing of growing at their own pace through curated activities that are developmentally appropriate for them, and the feedback from the teachers is invaluable and supportive of that development. We're currently in the throws of toddler tantrums, and a quick message to the school provided us with several resources, all of which have proven practically successful in helping us navigate those challenges.

I can't recommend Little Sam enough, for everyone. Jackson needs Little Sam. And all of us adults could use a little more of what Little Sam teaches: mindfulness, taking things slowly and deliberately, apart from distractions, disorder, and screens.”