Holidays with Children
There are holidays throughout the year. Some require looking up beloved recipes on yellowed cards and hanging of decorations and long car rides. Some you only know about because social media or the Google Doodle →
Who is Montessori For?
Is Montessori good for my child? How do you keep this classroom so clean? What? They all WALK? All the time? How do you keep the children from just pulling everything off the shelves? Every →
Spotlight June & Bobby George
It's been 10 years. This is the 10th Fall Baan Dek has welcomed Students, the 10th time we've scrubbed and prepped and searched, the 10th time we've brainstormed and conversed and made this year, the →
Providing Choices
We love choices. Food is such a beautiful example of this. How many ways can you find to order your coffee? Even if we always make the same decision, how would we feel if our →
Change
Frederick Douglass said, "Without a struggle, there can be no progress." But, sometimes, the struggle can be just that -- painful. Arduous. Seemingly unending. Is there anything worse than seeing a loved one struggle? Change →
When Help Isn’t Helpful
We all want to help. We are born empathetic into this close-knit community, and that empathy drives us to care for and want to help one another. We want to help other adults, even strangers, →
What She Showed Me
I think I have a fairly passable understanding of Montessori. I love this work, I was a Montessori student myself, my family raised me in an accidentally very Montessori manner. I fully appreciate that I →
Lunch Containers
When it comes to what to pack your child's lunch in, the options are endless. It seems lunch boxes are everywhere, and there are decisions to make -- is it big enough? Small enough? Should →
Lunch Food
So, your child will be staying at school full-day. How exciting! Whether they are 16-months or 6, if they've been in full time care since they were an infant or if this is the first →
Spotlight The Absorbent Teacher
Ruby Cossairt is an Upper Elementary Montessori Teacher from Ojai, California. She works with 9-12 year olds during the day, and by night she blogs at The Absorbent Teacher. She shares reflections and ideas from →
Lunch
As we get ready for school, we’ve gathered our supplies, maybe purchased new shoes, and many of us are toting a new lunch box. But then, the big question -- what to put in the lunch →
We’re back in action!
We're so excited to get back to work. The next coming weeks and months are going to be awesome. That is not to say every day is going to be easy. In fact, we all →
Back To School
A new school year is so special. It's momentous. We have cultural routines marking this special occasion -- a new calendar, an indicator of Fall, fresh starts. Children are often caught up in all this excitement and →
Happy Birthday, Maria Montessori
August 31st is a special day. Maria Montessori would have turned 146. She passed in 1952, but her legacy lives on. Children all over the world are working daily in classrooms just like the one →
Summer
It’s officially Summer! The days are long and warm, and many schedules are disrupted, for better or for worse, for these few months. Some look forward to adventures this season brings, others wonder how to →
