In before care, many students take the opportunity to help get the classroom ready for their friends. Here's a picture of one of our three year old students, carefully folding the laundry, sorting the towels →

Watch this short video, as Ms. Wood presents the safety pins dressing frame activity to a three year old student. They both persist, going back and forth, helping each other to discover how best to →

Opportunities don't always present themselves. Sometimes you just need to follow your passions, and try to realize your dreams. It sounds melodramatic, we know, but that's exactly what happened. That's also, exactly what children aspire →

Yesterday, we had our official Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting. Note the giant scissors, and a timid London, peering out to the crowd from behind the scenes. We wanted to take this opportunity to thank →

As many of you know, part of being an accredited Montessori school, is having a consultant visit on a regular basis, and verify that what we are doing is in line with the principles that →

We thought we would take this opportunity to address the role that competition plays in Montessori. There's a misconception that Montessori students don't compete. We think this is the farthest thing from the truth. Montessori →

The Baan Dek Montessori is proud to attend and participate in the OTA Sessions. Do you know the OTA Sessions? "They were born out of a desire to see the Midwest shine as hub of →

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 →

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, →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Watch as this yet to be three year old boy engages with a pouring presentation from Ms. Wood. She presents the material, carefully and methodically, using deliberate motions and exaggerated gestures. As adults, we're used →

You've probably already seen this poem. Some of you might have even read it multiple times. It's worth reading again, until you feel sufficiently inspired, to read it once more. The rhythm, the flow, the...hope →

We had a great conversation about imagination yesterday. We were discussing his new shirt, the one that he had painted himself, when we started to hone in on colors and what it means to imagine. →