Excerpts from "Extending Montessori in the Home"
September 2021 Have you ever walked into the Montessori classroom and watched as children sweep under the table after eating, return a...
April Montessori Message
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the virtue of empathy and how our young students develop this virtue. I’ve been learning that our...
October Montessori Message
In an America where one of today’s slogans is “Make America kind again”, the virtue of kindness is forefront in many of our minds. And...
September Montessori Message
This was originally sent out to parents in September of 2015 but I thought it was so appropriate for our first Montessori message for the...
Pre-Primary: The Many Ways We Learn Letters…
The children explore letters and beginning sounds in the Montessori classroom in a variety of ways. Letter lessons, beginning sound boxes...
Jr/Sr Kindergarten: Reading to the Seedlings Class
Recently, some of the senior kindergartners have taken a moment in their busy morning to walk downstairs to read to our youngest...
Seedlings: Readers in the Seedlings Classroom
Over the past two months, kids from the Kindergarten class have been visiting our room once a week to read books to the toddlers. This...
Preschool: Letter Sound Books
In Montessori education, letters are introduced by phonetic sounds rather than letter names. The children learn the sound each letter...
Seedlings: Learning about Animal Adaptations
In the classroom we have been learning about how animals adapt to the changes of winter. We have been singing a new song about...
Kindergarten: Making the Maze with the Red Rods- A Montessori extension work
Recently, we placed extension cards in the Sensorial area to encourage the children to extend their learning with some of the most basic...