When Reading Is Magic
If you saw me walking across campus with a clipboard in my hand, I would probably be on my way to substitute in a primary (3- to 6-year-old) classroom. I … Read More
Today is Saturday
October 25, 2022 It is still dark when four-year-old Sam is up a little after six in the morning. He rubs his eyes and sits up in bed, a mattress … Read More
It’s All Science
October 25, 2022 “What is a scientist?…We give the name scientist to a man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth … Read More
Montessori for Elementary
Learning How to Think The Montessori Elementary program offers an unparalleled opportunity for the ongoing development of your child who has been nurtured in the Primary program. He is entering … Read More
Play vs. Work: A Wrong Alternative
PART 1 of 3 on Montessori and Play Recently, I’ve read several articles in which articulate, well-informed commentators caution parents against emphasizing academics for preschool children, and which advocate “developmentally … Read More
Soft Skills
October 25, 2022 I had an interesting conversation with a prospective parent recently who teaches at a local college. She shared that she and her colleagues are constantly discussing “how … Read More
The Road Less Traveled
October 25, 2022 or The Bed Less Slept In I’m a Montessori teacher. My trainer used to say that by the end of the training, we’d have Montessori in our … Read More
Montessori’s Aeroplane
October 25, 2022 Passage to Abstraction “There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in the senses.” -Aristotle When our oldest son was six years old, he arrived … Read More
Boys and Gun Play
October 25, 2022 Elementary children need to experience themselves as increasingly powerful agents in the world. As their personal power increases with age and maturity, they begin to encounter all … Read More
Building a Foundation of Trust
October 25, 2022 “What do you think?”“I’m sure you will do the right thing.”“Do you have any ideas?”“How might that work?” Building statements like the above into our repertoire is … Read More