Spotlight Little Hands Montessori
Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? I am originally from Philippines and have a background in Psychology, and after finishing my 0-3 AMI Montessori Diploma →
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In the Montessori primary classroom, we approach literacy differently than one might expect. We write before we read. Writing is a natural next step from speaking. We highlight the sounds in words, and the Sandpaper →
Montessori Isn’t Just School
Attending a Montessori school isn’t always an option. There are many reasons families know about Montessori, but their child isn’t enrolled in a school. Sometimes there isn’t a school in the area, or it’s fully →
Homework for Vacation
It’s that time of year. We’re planning how we’ll spend these three hot months. Long days, longer car rides, and the shortest season of the year, it seems. It’s natural to want to ensure children →
Spotlight Maren Schmidt
Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? Today I live on the Big Island of Hawaii with my husband, Mark. I have two adult daughters, Dana, →
Some Words of Advice to Teachers, 1924 – Maria Montessori
In this short, little known, but highly influential and impactful text, Maria Montessori lays out some words of advice for teachers: "Anticipating some of the questions which will certainly be put to me, I shall →
No Bad Days
“How was your day?” It’s such a common question. It’s perhaps the most timeless of questions, and one we ask of children and partners and anyone we care about. It’s a love question, what happened →
I Must Mean What I Say
We talk a lot. We say a lot of words, some of them empty and some of them dramatic, some of them casual and some of them heartrending. As adults, we’ve learned to hear the →
Spotlight Maryse Cohen
Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? I’m currently living above the Arctic Circle in the small Inuit community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada. Nunavut is →
Consistency and Routines
Consistency and Routines. Consistency leads to the greatest success. Children thrive with routines. They’re some of our favorite words. While children are still creating self-discipline and an inner sense of order, it’s up to us →
Getting Ready for School
It’s the time of year when we’re making plans. Plans for summer, even if it feels like we’ll never get there, and plans for school for next year, whether it’s college or first time away →
Math without Math
Okay, so, Maria Montessori tells us to “Follow the Child,” right? Children will show us what they need. We pay attention, we watch and look for signs. It’s natural for us to count as we →
Montessori Encyclopedia: Color Box 3
How do you use this material? Color Box 3 is a large wooden box in the Sensorial Area, containing 63 color tablets: gradation sets of 7 tablets of each of the following colors, blue, red, →
The Montessori Children’s House
When you live and breathe something, day-in-day-out, it’s natural to take it for granted. Not dismissively so, but rather to be unsurprised by it. Is it because of the routine? Much like bandaids might be →
Giving Choices in Montessori
Children surprise us with their opinions. For the first few years, they’re along for the ride, wearing, eating, and doing what we choose for them. A day comes and, out of the blue, they surprise →
