Sometimes there are things you just need to know. Whether it’s specialized knowledge for your field or common knowledge that just makes life easier if you can pull the answer off the top of your →

Freedom and Discipline are fundamental parts of a Montessori classroom, but they’re tough for a few reasons. We've written about Freedom and Discipline before, and we surely will again. Each day, we learn more deeply →

The children are learning all day, every day. The adults in the classroom are trained observers, making careful, extensive notes throughout the day of a child’s progress in the various areas of the classroom. We →

How do you use this material? The Moveable Alphabet is a collection of letters arranged in two boxes. The vowels are blue, and the consonants are pink, to coordinate with the Sandpaper Letters. We’ll take →

This month we celebrate Earth Day. We bring the natural world into the classroom in various ways, and we thought we’d look at some of those here. 1. There’s mostly natural materials. Look around a →

Lara Jacobs is gifted. She is a wealth of experience, and always happy to share her observations, thoughts, or a helpful hint. She's also always learning. She lives and breathes Montessori, and shared these thoughts →

We recently held a webinar on the topic of Siblings! We often receive questions from families about the sibling dynamic: We're expecting, now what? How do we help prepare our child (and ourselves!) for welcoming →

Jeanne-Marie Paynel provides gracious articles and tidbits at Voilà Montessori, in addition to personal coaching, webinars, and helpful downloads. It's so clear she is passionate about this work, and in helping parents to feel successful in →

Welcome! We love what we do and we’re so glad you’re here! Established in 2007, we’re the first and only accredited Montessori School in South Dakota. We started with the idea of offering this 100 →

“How’s she doing??” A parent asks, with perhaps a bit of caution in their voice. “Wonderful!” we gush, eager to share all the latest achievements, treasured moments, kind words and actions we see during the →

How do we tend to the empathetic nature of children, the human desire to be in relationship with others, the important social education? Montessori is education of the Whole Child. Social interactions, development of independence, →

We are a team. We all work together with a common goal -- to best support the needs of the children at our school, and their families. What role we play might look a little →

Kathleen Clark-Perez is a trained Montessori guide and parent, who shares adventures, stories, tips, and beautiful photos about life at home with a young child at Real Life Montessori. It is beautiful to see how this →

Today is officially the start of Spring! Depending on where you live, the change of seasons might feel like it's been coming for quite some time, or it might still feel very much like Winter, →

Some of the greatest achievements in learning a child will make happen before even stepping foot in a classroom. The foundations of independence, walking, talking, feeding yourself, all happen in those first few years of →