Our friends, The Montessori Madmen, have started a new campaign. In an effort to continue to increase awareness about Montessori education, they’ve prompted schools to design the word, “Google”, using the class materials. The hope is that Google will select one of these images to promote on their homepage. Go Montessori! We mean, Google Montessori! Well, […]
How are expectations set in Montessori? What are the expectations in Montessori? Let’s find out. Instead of creating or setting expectations for children, offering up a date at which they need to complete an assignment, or task, in Montessori, we focus on self-discovery. Take, for instance, the process of learning addition. First of all, we’ve […]
In a society and culture that focuses so much on academics, we need to remember that if children are happy, they’ll be truly engaged and invested in their education. They’ll want to learn. This is an often misunderstood point about Montessori. We focus on the social, or community part of education, first and foremost. Academics, […]
A few months ago, we announced that we would be partnering up with a “sister Montessori school” in Massachuttes, named The Riverbend Montessori School. Collectively, we decided that it would be a unique opportunity to share our different cultures, and allow our students the opportunity to share their favorite books, thoughts and dreams, with peers across […]
Control of Error, the ability to recognize and then correct your own mistakes, without having an external person let you know if you did the activity “right or wrong”, is a mainstay of the Montessori approach to education. In this short video, our yet to be three-year-old student engages with the cylinder blocks. Notice how […]