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The Kindergarten Year

Podcasts

We are preparing them not to need us. Similar to the unspoken agreement a parent makes with their baby, yet so very different, when a child enters the classroom, we are making a promise — I will welcome you and love you and help you in the best way I possibly can, and send you […]

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Self-Teaching and Self-Correcting

Montessori Activities

There are lots of common, easily identifiable characteristics of Montessori Materials. We use primarily natural, breakable materials, such as wood, ceramic, metal, and glass. The Montessori Materials are designed to be beautiful and appealing to young children. They are just the right weight, size, and shape to fit easily in a child’s hand. But did […]

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Transforming Education

News and Updates

110 years ago today, something transformative happened. Maria Montessori opened the doors to her first Casa dei Bambini, or Children’s House, in Italy. It is unclear if Maria knew how transformative this new system of learning, of teaching, of perceiving children and childhood, could be for those who participated in it, transformative even those who […]

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Montessori Encyclopedia: Sandpaper Letters

Montessori Activities

How do you use this material? The Sandpaper Letters are displayed in a classroom in a box or sometimes on a small ledge. The Consonants are pink, and the Vowels are blue. The guide selects three letters with very different shapes and different sounds and takes them to a table with a child. We begin […]

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They’re So Big

Thoughts & Reflections

A gift of having children return to the same classroom year after year is watching their development in broad strokes. We observe children daily, seeing incremental changes happening all the time, presenting timely lessons as appropriate to each child’s development. But it’s truly amazing to suddenly be struck by how much a child has changed. […]

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